The Shortcuts app comes with a gallery containing dozens of ready-made shortcuts. Among other things, this shortcut stops any music that might be playing, turns down the screen brightness, turns on video recording, turns on Do Not Disturb, and sends a text to a contact, all launched by a SIRI Shortcut.īut you don't need to download that shortcut to get a sense of the possibilities. It's a great example of how shortcuts can control iOS features. What Can You Do with Shortcuts?Ī shortcut to facilitate video recording an encounter with the police has been getting media attention lately. This blog discusses how to create shortcuts with the Shortcut app, and then how to launch it with a SIRI Shortcut. A SIRI Shortcut performs some task using SIRI. A shortcut is a set of actions created with the Shortcuts app. Shortcuts and SIRI Shortcuts are two different things. If you've used Automator on MacOS, Shortcuts will be familiar to you.įor information on the Shortcuts app, take a look at Thomas Domville's podcast series, How to Use SIRI Shortcuts in iOS The Shortcuts app, formerly called Workflows, lets you specify one or more actions, called shortcuts, that you launch with SIRI or by selecting a desktop icon. This blog gets you started with a drop-dead simple shortcut, and then describes the shortcuts I created to help track my spending. She likes to track our spending, and my new shortcut tells her what I've been purchasing. No, I didn't create a shortcut to annoy my spouse. I bet my spouse is starting to wonder why I'm sending her so many text messages.
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