The automation in the screenshot would only prompt me to run the shortcut in iOS 16, but now has the option to run automatically in iOS 17.

FYI, this automation is great for my kids iPad. It seems to automatically connect when I leave the house, but then everything reconnects to WiFi when I get home. Loving it.

  • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    When I moved from Android to iOS a few years ago, I really missed the existence of Tasker. I’m glad that Shortcuts is starting to become a viable alternative – though, not direct replacement. The continued integration of third-party apps into Shortcuts has made it a lot more useful than Tasker for me.

    I’d love if they make more triggers and make existing ones more powerful. For example:

    • Media starts playing/stopping - so I can turn off lights in the room I’m in
    • Interval time checks - right now the time check only takes a single time to trigger. Having something like “run shortcut hourly” would help some shortcuts I have now to fling data around
    • When any message with some contents is received - Right now this is limited to a list of contacts. I’d like to have a shortcut where someone could text me, “Where are you?” and it’ll just auto-send my location.
    • relevants@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      When any message with some contents is received - Right now this is limited to a list of contacts. I’d like to have a shortcut where someone could text me, “Where are you?” and it’ll just auto-send my location.

      You can already do this! Just leave the Sender field on “Choose” and fill out the Message Contains field only.

  • DeepChill@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is awesome and terrible at the same time. Now we’re back to endless notifications that we can’t disable. I’m getting dozens of notifications a day from the shortcuts app for the newly allowed background automations.