[Use Apple’s Siri Shortcuts To Make Your Life Easier
Amancio Mccrae
The Shortcuts app on Apple is a great way to enhance the way your Apple devices integrate with the world around you. By combining the power of Shortcuts and IFTTT, you can easily connect and manage automations that make your life easier, make you more productive, and save yourself time every day.
Shortcuts can create both triggers and actions, meaning you can change the settings on your phone or build custom Siri commands that connect to devices in your home. IFTTT is now compatable with Shortcuts, giving you all-new ways to make every thing work better together!
Elevate your daily wellness or mindfulness routine by changing the lighting in your home when you open a mindfulness app, or use your Sleep schedule to optimize your evening routine and secure your home in the evening.
The Automation tab within the Shorcut app goes beyond Siri and allows you to connect your Applets to many unique functions from your Apple device. You can trigger an Applet when you connect to CarPlay, when you receive messages from specific people, when you connect to your home's wifi, or even when certain apps are opened. These automations can also include optimizing your focus sessions or letting you know when your device's battery is low.
Zight is a visual communication tool that helps you take screenshots and annotate them, record your screen with audio (and even personalize it by recording your face via webcam) or just make quick GIFs to illustrate something.
Communicating visually using screenshots, videos and GIFs helps you send the message quicker, cut down the text and drive your point home faster with zero-to-little back and forth. Better still, you can do it in iOS, Mac, Windows, and Chrome.
With the release of iOS 12, Apple updated its useful Workflows app and rebranded it under the name Shortcuts. Essentially, Shortcuts allows iOS users to run detailed workflows, which help them accomplish complicated tasks in less time.
Other times, I take a walk around my favorite neighborhood. Put on the right tunes and enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of fall as it starts to get dark outside! And thanks to this cool workflow, listening to the appropriate music on the go just got better.
The Calculate Tip shortcut is fully customizable with the tip percentage and how many decimal places to calculate. Change the options to include a smaller or larger tip percentage, then customize the final alert box. And for quicker access to this quick shortcut, you can even make it a widget.
Why overwhelm yourself with multiple news feeds or get spoon-fed the latest stories from just one news outlet? With this iOS shortcut, you can build yourself a customizable list of RSS feeds which will redirect you to pertinent information whenever a headline catches your eye. You simply click on it and the shortcut will send you to the website where you can read and/or view the entire story.
Rather than pulling up the Amazon website, typing in the product name, and scanning through the hundreds of offerings on the site, you can use this shortcut to quickly scan a barcode and automatically check Amazon for it.
The idea is not to use the CamelCamelCamel website to look up the price history of an item, but instead employ the workflow to make the process faster and also get alerts when the price drops to your stipulated amount.
It is important to know how to protect yourself against false accusations so that you can get out of these situations before they escalate and become worse. One way people have found success in defending themselves from false allegations is by documenting everything, even if it seems trivial.
These cold a**holes use social media platforms, and X (Twitter) is a famous choice. They will post short codes with no clear explanation and once you click, it will expose your data. Believe me, this has worked on loads of unsuspecting people. So if we want to protect ourselves, we need to always take a peek before clicking these URLs.
If you ever find yourself in a time crunch and need to delete recent photos from your iPhone, there are two ways of doing it. One is through the Photos app by opening up albums for specific dates or events and selecting which ones will be removed; this takes more time.
The other way is with this awesome little workflow, which lets you delete God-awful selfies, blurry snapshots, or unwanted screenshots with more ease. Are you ready to clean up your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPod? Check out how easy it is with this shortcut;
You can access it from the notification area or your home screen. When you tap it once, you are prompted to delete the last photo that was saved on your device. Tap it one time to delete the most recent image and then tap it again for the next most recent.
A photo collage is a great way to make a point or make your memories last. You can select photos that are significant to you and arrange them in an aesthetically pleasing layout or go with the traditional 46 rectangle style of arrangement.
BUT, with just a few clicks, you can automatically create an amazing photo collage with the Photo Grid shortcut. Simply start it to find an extremely user-friendly interface for collage creation: select as many pictures as you want and it automatically produces an aesthetically appealing collage of those photos. Once your collage is ready, you can save it to your phone or share it with friends.
If you want to save the collage without viewing it, just replace Quick Look with another trigger. If you instead want to automatically send the image to your friends, pick Send Message and this nifty workflow will attach it to a new text message. Click Save to Photo Album and after making the collage, the application saves it without further questioning.
On the other hand, one of the two GIF shortcuts that iOS devices provide is Shoot A GIF. It is easy to use, taking multiple photos and turning them into a GIF in seconds. You can adjust the number of photos, how long each photo is on screen, and whether to loop it. Your newly captured images are compiled into a GIF and can be saved or shared.
You can use the other option to create a GIF from your videos. Simply select a video and have it converted into a looping video of up to 500 frames long with the Video to GIF shortcut. It also cuts out any needed footage from the video.
The idea is to open the iOS Shortcuts app on your phone or tablet and tap Create GIFs in the Search Store. And both shortcuts have the option to replace the last action, meaning you can save a GIF or send it directly through Slack.
I lost count of how many birthdates I have forgotten just this year, but no more forgetting to buy a card or call your best friend on their special day. This iOS shortcut helps you remember all the important birthdates in your life, so happy planning!
Of course, Chrome does a better job and this iOS shortcut triggers Chrome to use the search engine. You can highlight text in an app, document, website, or email. Then you need to select the shortcut after opening the Share option on your device.
It provides a link to your location and allows you to share the entire audio snippet with someone of your choice. A lifesaver, right? Put this iOS shortcut on your home screen or make a widget, so you can easily record audio snippets anywhere.
For instance, you could start the shortcut and then put your phone down or in your pocket. Once it finishes, a recording of up to 30 seconds is sent to Dropbox along with a notification with the URL to one or more selected recipients. You also have the option of changing the recording duration beforehand.
ZIP files are all over the place these days. Whether it be for a school project or work, there is always some form of a ZIP file we need to open up and use at one point in our lives. But opening them can become tedious with an unorganized system of folders inside which make finding what you want difficult (or too easy).
I woke up this morning, eyes still half-closed from sleep and dreading the day ahead. I had an upcoming deadline looming over my head for a project that was due soon and the knowledge of how much work it would take to get done just made me want to crawl back in bed. But before I could even think about going back to sleep, I heard a voice coming from my phone. It sounded like one of those reminders.
You can use your Shortcuts app to clean up specific reminders at one time (deleting just those with a certain due date, for instance), or to search for specific words used in the text and when the reminder was created. There are plenty of filters to apply, and this is relatively easy to do.
This morning, I was stuck in a weird situation. While adding the final touches to a project on my iPhone, I noticed that the battery life was unexpectedly low. Being miles away from any charger cable, I started contemplating what to do next as it was close to the submission deadline. Had to use the little juice left to call my friend for help; she laughed, and I sighed deeply.
This shortcut differs from the others because you will also need Scriptable to open up another app. And as for legality, YouTube videos can only be downloaded if you own them or they are in the public domain.
Okay, there are three tabs in the app: My Shortcuts, Automation, and Gallery. We have discussed everything that can be found in the My Shortcuts area so far, and what you find in the Gallery. In the Automation tab, you can take your shortcuts to a whole new level by using triggers like time of day, location, or workout completion.
I was so happy with my purchase of an NFC tags pack and could not wait to get home and try them out. I had an idea that would make it more convenient for me when I want to leave my car in a parking lot overnight. So after getting home, I made sure all the doors were locked then proceeded to set up this automation on my phone which would unlock the trunk any time someone scanned the tag in front of it. It sounded like a great idea at first and hell yeah; it was!
Using iOS 14, you receive notifications once your Apple Watch is fully charged. But it would be great if you could receive notifications when your Apple phone is fully charged, right? You can do that using this great automation.
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