Esther from Mastodon shared a great tip for using Personal Automations for psuedo-alarms when you don’t want to play alerts out loud – I built off her idea with a tip around Alarm automations.
@Timery on Mastodon: Timery 1.5.3 is available! This update has four new Shortcuts actions and several small improvements & fixes! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1425368544 What’s new in Shortcuts:
Diego Jimenez has put together a clever shortcut for securing your iPhone using the Lock Screen action that works as a Personal Automation when Airplane Mode is activated.
Lance Whitney from PCMag covers all the basics of Shortcuts to get you started, including creating shortcuts/automations, adding them to the widget/Share Sheet/Apple Watch, and finding new shortcuts online.
No Man’s Sky launched for Mac today after an announcement at Apple’s WWDC last year. Now, it’s available on Steam for free – is the iPad launch coming soon?
Following up on my post about Discord timestamps, Zach Knox mentioned the app Elsewhen, a utility for formatting timestamps and sharing times across timezones.
Congrats to Zenitizer, a clean and simple meditation timer app that just launched on the App Store.
Coordinating across timezones can be hard – making sure everyone shows up in their local time is key. Thankfully Discord lets you share timestamps – and Apple’s Shortcuts can generate them easily. Here’s how.
If you publish YouTube videos or livestreams with chapter markers, you might want to link back to those moments – here’s how to generate the full list using Apple’s Shortcuts app.
During my initial tests of Final Cut Pro for iPad, I discovered many new features, bugs, and workflow adaptations necessary for using Apple’s newest professional app to the fullest – tune into the livestream.
Apple has posted release notes for the updated actions added in ioS 16.5 – read the full update quoted.
After taking notes on how to design great actions, I wanted to share my mind map ahead of future blog posts on how to build great shortcuts with members.
Check out my guest appearance on the video podcast iOS Today with host Rosemary Orchard from Tuesday, May 2.
Use this shortcut to set an alarm in the Clock app for every one of the next day’s Calendar events.
Search through a given tweet’s Replies and Quotes using this shortcut from Twitter user @colleidoscope.
How to make YouTube videos redirect into the app – thanks to this shortcut from Stephen Robles.
Bike Outliner for Mac has added 14 new actions to Shortcuts to automate your outlines, including a video tutorial.
Apple has posted updated notes for the new actions added in iOS 16.4 – here’s the full release quoted.
From the latest issue of my Shortcuts newsletter: Welcome to Issue 96 of What’s New in Shortcuts – this mid-month update is full of Shortcuts
In the iOS 16.4 beta, Apple has added a new protocol for App Intents developers—ForegroundContinuableIntent—which engineering manager Michael Gorbach linked to on Mastodon.