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More than anything it makes me wonder who the hell it is for. My personal devices are the full Apple loadout and it's still hard to make anything meaningful wit

by qsort 1y ago

More than anything it makes me wonder who the hell it is for. My personal devices are the full Apple loadout and it's still hard to make anything meaningful with it, too confusing for the average user, not powerful enough for the power user. It could become interesting if there were some integrations with Apple Intelligence: the tasks you'd delegate to a shortcut are the kind of low-stakes stuff AI integration is a good fit for. It doesn't look like it's in the cards, though...

walterbell 1y ago
Shortcuts can send data to OpenAI or other LLMs, https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/2023/03/openai-gpt-on-macos-ios-apple-shortcuts/ https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/2023/03/openai-gpt-on-macos-io...
savolai 1y ago
Converting pdfs scanned with the builtin Files document scanner to jpegs or pngs has been the most helpful so far
SebFender 1y ago
I use it daily to turn my iOS device to low power when I use a photo and video app - this little trick turns off HDR that I profoundly detest and can't visually stand for.
- Nab443 1y ago
  Makes me think of this old trick that raise the room temperature when you press space long enough.
- Obscurity4340 1y ago
  Why not use it to automate turning low power back on any time it gets turned off?
  - SebFender 1y ago
    It does both - On when this app runs and off again when out - Perfect setup for my poor little blue eyes
microflash 1y ago
It is for me. Apparently you can’t turn on Wifi Hotspot on a single tap on iOS, or switch off Bluetooth or Wifi completely on iOS so a few shortcuts to do these in control center it is.
superb_dev 1y ago
I’ve built a lot of small little things with shortcuts, but the only thing I still use is one I made to change my background/lock screen to a random photo from an album. I set it to run every morning so I wake up to a new photo. I shared the album with my partner too so they can add photos to the rotation. It’s small but I love it! I also made a shortcut that lives on my home screen to open a notes page for today, creating a new one if it doesn’t exist already. That one would be more used if I could ever get a journaling habit to stick. It’s certainly very limited and suffers a lot from a poor interface, but I don’t think people give it enough credit.

by qsort 1y ago

walterbell 1y ago

Shortcuts can send data to OpenAI or other LLMs, https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/2023/03/openai-gpt-on-macos-ios-apple-shortcuts/ https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/2023/03/openai-gpt-on-macos-io...

savolai 1y ago

Converting pdfs scanned with the builtin Files document scanner to jpegs or pngs has been the most helpful so far

SebFender 1y ago

I use it daily to turn my iOS device to low power when I use a photo and video app - this little trick turns off HDR that I profoundly detest and can't visually stand for.

Nab443 1y ago
Makes me think of this old trick that raise the room temperature when you press space long enough.
Obscurity4340 1y ago
Why not use it to automate turning low power back on any time it gets turned off?
- SebFender 1y ago
  It does both - On when this app runs and off again when out - Perfect setup for my poor little blue eyes

microflash 1y ago

It is for me. Apparently you can’t turn on Wifi Hotspot on a single tap on iOS, or switch off Bluetooth or Wifi completely on iOS so a few shortcuts to do these in control center it is.

superb_dev 1y ago

I’ve built a lot of small little things with shortcuts, but the only thing I still use is one I made to change my background/lock screen to a random photo from an album. I set it to run every morning so I wake up to a new photo. I shared the album with my partner too so they can add photos to the rotation. It’s small but I love it! I also made a shortcut that lives on my home screen to open a notes page for today, creating a new one if it doesn’t exist already. That one would be more used if I could ever get a journaling habit to stick. It’s certainly very limited and suffers a lot from a poor interface, but I don’t think people give it enough credit.