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Shortcuts is the most exciting release of iOS 12. Every time I run into a recurring task on my phone, I can usually make a shortcut to do it for me. For exampl
by fouadmatin 8y ago
Shortcuts is the most exciting release of iOS 12.
Every time I run into a recurring task on my phone, I can usually make a shortcut to do it for me. For example, when I get an email saying my build failed, I open it and click “view logs” but need to scroll to the bottom of a very long page to see why the build failed. Now I just run “Scroll to Bottom” [1] and then I’m looking at what previously took a solid 15-20 seconds of scrolling.
I can only imagine how many thousands of hours are lost per day on similar recurring tasks across all mobile users that could be saved with a shortcut. I’m really excited Apple is taking iOS in a direction where anyone can be a developer.
[1] https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e1daf0c6017e4db382272390f8910646 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e1daf0c6017e4db382272390f89...
- p2t2p 8y agoYes it is the most exiting feature but booooy is it buggy. I have couple shortcuts in the widget. 80% of the time I click the shortcut in the widget it does like half of the stuff. I have workflow that does: - Find one song in Apple Music, start playing that - Find all other songs by that artists and play them after the current one - send a message to my wife "I'm leaving the office" Messages works all the time, 80% of the time music simply don't start playing. And when I try to hit that shortcut button several time in the widget, widget itself fails and stops showing any shortcuts, only an error message.
- eridius 8y agoOh wow that's a clever shortcut. I didn't realize you could write shortcuts that execute JavaScript in the context of a Safari webpage.