To play music on Spotify, I added an "Open URL" shortcut to the automation. You copy the song URL off Spotify and ADD ":play" to the end of the URL and it will autoplay and the continue with the rest of the album
made me use for the first time the pushcuts app, knew it existed but never tried. very useful to extend the possibilities of home automations ! thx a lot !
Just a suggestion for your next video would be how to use time based shortcuts. Apple makes this overly difficult in my opinion and my guess would be that most people do not know how to do this. For example, scan the NFC before 8 and it runs a good morning scene, at night after 9 PM it runs a good night. Maybe connect focus modes into that. Just a thought… love the content and miss having you on HKI!!
Please keep these coming. These are awesome. I’d love to see your way to get a text message as a notification for something that happened in a HomeKit device currently I don’t see a way to get a personal alert when there’s a home alert
People have their reasons. One of my kids’ iPad’s sleep button doesn’t anymore, so I put this shortcut icon on the Home Screen so they can quickly lock it
1:20 I’d like to see a shortcut that not only starts to play a playlist in Apple Music, but also starts playing at a specific song within the playlist by its name and continues to play the remaining songs from that point.
these are one of the things keeping me on apple. sure there are alternatives for apple but apples will always have the best app and hardware integration
You can actually run another shortcut from within a personal shortcut. I do this a lot because I can create a shortcut using the complete suite of shortcut commands, then when I convert to shortcut from within the home app (or just create a personal automation) I just add the run shortcut option and choose the regular shortcut I created.
@@nadasadeq3 No, there isn't. The point I was trying to make (perhaps not too eloquently) is that once you convert to shortcut you do have the ability to run another shortcut, and that shortcut does not have to be a personal shortcut allowing you to use the full capability of shortcuts. So, for example, I can build an automation based on motion being detected and convert that to a shortcut. As Stephen mentioned in this case you are limited in what that (personal) shortcut can do. What you can do instead is after the control my home option (e.g. when motion is detected) is ask it to run another shortcut which can do anything you want.
@@donpowers6033But running an automation based on motion detection would be within the home app which again is incapable of running a regular shortcut even when converting to a shortcut…
@@nadasadeq3 I guess I am not making myself clear. The automation would not be within the Home app, it would be within shortcuts. Shortcuts has an action called "Get the State of my Home" which allows you to detect the state of many devices in HomeKit. Then if a certain state exists (using an if statement here) you can do whatever shortcuts allows. The point I was trying to make is that you can run another shortcut within a shortcut. So, if you are using a personal shortcut to get the state of your home, if that state is a certain value you can then run a regular shortcut which gives you more options.
Great video. How to set an automation that creates a reminder. This reminder is to be exchanged with a notification at the set time. Hope you know what I'm talking about. :) Greetings from germany
Great Video, Thanks for the NFC Tag section, it was easy to follow and appreciate the great flow. Keep up the great work, and good luck on your Quest to getting your channel to 100k Followers, your channel is well worth it
This a great series. It’d be great to see a Siri conversation one using menu actions. I have one when I get home it’s triggered and prompts what I’d like to do listen to music or watch tv.
I am searching for a shortcut to scan multiple QR Codes and Barcodes to add them to a list which will be sent out by email. This is for a packing list and therefor there should maybe be a question after each scan if I want another scan or stop and send. If you could even take the lets say 6 first letters or numbers to sort the product by name and categorise that in the email even better. This is to collect serial number and amount of items scanned by type.
Hello. Thank you so much for all of the nice shortcut ideas. Would you be able to help me create a shortcut that will track mileage from one location to another and automate it as I drive up to each location? I need to use the app for work to calculate mileage for gas reimbursement. Thank you. 🙏🏿
can we have a shortcut that open Apple Maps when you are in safari and you googled for a business it brings up the google map. I'm not sure how to phrase to explain this....
I've been trying to make this shortcut/automation for awhile, maybe you could help. At a certain time, I want a notification to come up and ask me if I'd like to log health data, with options being different things I can log. If I'm not ready to log now, I either want to be able to snooze or even just leave the notification in my Notification Center so I can just interact with it when I'm ready. Right now I'm using "choose from menu" which works great, I just don't know how to snooze it or leave it in my Notification Center for later if I'm not ready for it when the automation runs.
I'm looking for a shortcut that I can add tasks from the app Things 3 to the native calendar app, but check if the task already exists in the calendar, and if it does, to not add it, but if it doesn't, to add it to the calendar. I can't find anything that works that way
Hi brother, Really Important Shortcut, How do i auto connect specific bluetooth device with automation ? earlier i was able to do that but now not, all my shortcuts are wiped on new update don’t know why apple did that !!
Can you make an automatic shortcut which will automatically turns on and off my phone's location when using certain apps like maps, uber etc as I don't want my phone's location to be on all the time..thank you :)
Can you program an NFC tag/sticker to function like the single turn NFC antenna found in the Gen 2+ Apple MagSafe wallets? For example, it would be nice to slap an NFC sticker on my Apple MagSafe Battery Pack and write the NFC to report the last known location to Find My App after it was removed. I dont really want to dig out the NFC antenna found in the Apple Wallets... ha
Hm, you could create an automation that when you scan that NFC tag, it gets the current location / address and saves it to Data Jar...will set this up in my next Shortcuts video!
I was wondering if there is a way that you can make a shortcut that acts as a toggle for airdrop so everytime you click it turns it off and next time you click it turns it on and vice versa. I am aware that you can make 2 separate shortcuts to turn it off and on but I need them all in one shortcut so I can add it to the home screen as one icon and one click
Thanks a lot for these shortcut videos. I wanted to know if there is a shortcut to save a photo/s that i copy to clipboard then when i run the shortcut it would ask me to choose which photo album i'd like to paste it in in the photos app? Sorry for my English and i hope you got the idea.
I’m having an issue configuring the “Send Photo” shortcut. The shortcut is stalling on “Select Photos” and won’t open the Photos app for me to select anything. I checked my settings to see if that was a permission between apps needed, but did not find anything. Does anyone have any thoughts or help?
Is it possible to create an NFC tag that automates a HomeKit scene, but isn't a personal automation that way another family member with an Andriod phone can also scan the tag to run the HomeKit scene?
Good question, unfortunately NFC triggers are only available in the personal automation tab. A better option might be to get a HomeKit button this way whoever presses it can run the scene or automation. One of my favorites is the Aqara button, it does require a hub (the E1 is very inexpensive) but they've been the most reliable: amzn.to/3PhA4zk
@@beardfm Thank you! I've really been getting into home automations recently and now have 5 hubs including an Aqara hub, so this button will be a great solution! Or maybe I'll configure my Philips hue remote. Thanks again for great videos!
I have an automation requirement. I want to use a smart plug to put a device in timeout. I have wifi router that I want to go off for 30 minutes then cut back on automatically. 1. Tap shortcut "Wife Timeout 30 mins" 2. Router plug power cuts off for 30 minutes 3. Router power cuts back on automatically 30 minutes later.
So you can put the router on a smart plug, and then create an automation like this using a WAIT command, but after a few minutes that can get flaky. Not sure of another way to do it at the moment
I bought a pile of NFC tags a while back with the intention of sticking them all over the place. Then I realized there's nothing an NFC tag can do that a simple shortcut cannot do on its own. Just seems like an unnecessary extra step. Am I wrong?
I programmed my nfc tag on my phone but when I use my other phone it doesn’t work but I can re program it. How do I lock my nfc tag to do something simple like add eggs to a shared List
You may need to remove the automation from the first iPhone, but you should be able to scan it with multiple devices and program different actions without an issue. I'd use the built-in Reminders actions to automatically add items to a list like that.
@@beardfm no luck. I can set an automation for phone one and from phone two it won’t read it. But on phone two if I go to set up a new nfc automation it reads it to write over the tag instead of reading phone one’s data
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *📺 Building shortcuts for Apple TV can enhance user experience* 01:00 *⏯️ Shortcuts can pause or play specific Apple TV content* 02:28 *⏩ Shortcuts can skip forward or backward a certain amount of time on Apple TV* 03:20 *📱 Shortcuts can open the remote control on iPhone for Apple TV* 04:18 *🌙 Toggling dark mode can be automated on Apple TV* 05:17 *🏡 Automate home theater experience with Apple TV shortcuts* 06:30 *⏪ Create shortcuts to rewind or go backwards on Apple TV* 07:28 *📝 Using shortcuts, enable captions on Apple TV content in Apple TV app* Made with HARPA AI
@@beardfm I've been trying to do it for 2 months with no positive results. I've even tried searching on Google and every other platform including the AI chat bots like ChatGPT and Bard. Again no positive results. :(
To play music on Spotify, I added an "Open URL" shortcut to the automation. You copy the song URL off Spotify and ADD ":play" to the end of the URL and it will autoplay and the continue with the rest of the album
made me use for the first time the pushcuts app, knew it existed but never tried. very useful to extend the possibilities of home automations ! thx a lot !
Brooooo! KEEP THESE SHORTCUT VIDEOS COMING!
Love the shortcuts and widgets videos. Not lot of youtubers do this.
Appreciate that!
‘Back Tap’ to Lock Screen, is already an option in the ‘Back Tap’ settings.
Good point. But it’s also helpful as a shortcut and Home Screen icon. I have an iPad Pro with broken sleep button so the icon is good for that.
Yes, it's also much faster and cleaner.
Just a suggestion for your next video would be how to use time based shortcuts. Apple makes this overly difficult in my opinion and my guess would be that most people do not know how to do this. For example, scan the NFC before 8 and it runs a good morning scene, at night after 9 PM it runs a good night. Maybe connect focus modes into that. Just a thought… love the content and miss having you on HKI!!
Great idea
I love your videos! And your voice is kinda a asmr, I can listen to you for hours ahah
Haha thanks! Well you *can* tune in to my podcast for more: primarytech.fm
Please keep these coming. These are awesome. I’d love to see your way to get a text message as a notification for something that happened in a HomeKit device currently I don’t see a way to get a personal alert when there’s a home alert
Hm will look into that!
Glad I found you a few months ago ☺️love your videos
Why would you need a double tapp back tap short cut to lock the screen when there's literally a dedicated button to do that?
People have their reasons. One of my kids’ iPad’s sleep button doesn’t anymore, so I put this shortcut icon on the Home Screen so they can quickly lock it
Love the videos mate, is it possible to create a shortcut to disable notifications for multiple specific apps at once?
Thank you! I don't think so but will look for the next Shortcuts video
1:20 I’d like to see a shortcut that not only starts to play a playlist in Apple Music, but also starts playing at a specific song within the playlist by its name and continues to play the remaining songs from that point.
these are one of the things keeping me on apple. sure there are alternatives for apple but apples will always have the best app and hardware integration
You can actually run another shortcut from within a personal shortcut. I do this a lot because I can create a shortcut using the complete suite of shortcut commands, then when I convert to shortcut from within the home app (or just create a personal automation) I just add the run shortcut option and choose the regular shortcut I created.
But there is no option to run shortcut within a home automation.
@@nadasadeq3 No, there isn't. The point I was trying to make (perhaps not too eloquently) is that once you convert to shortcut you do have the ability to run another shortcut, and that shortcut does not have to be a personal shortcut allowing you to use the full capability of shortcuts. So, for example, I can build an automation based on motion being detected and convert that to a shortcut. As Stephen mentioned in this case you are limited in what that (personal) shortcut can do. What you can do instead is after the control my home option (e.g. when motion is detected) is ask it to run another shortcut which can do anything you want.
@@donpowers6033But running an automation based on motion detection would be within the home app which again is incapable of running a regular shortcut even when converting to a shortcut…
@@nadasadeq3 I guess I am not making myself clear. The automation would not be within the Home app, it would be within shortcuts. Shortcuts has an action called "Get the State of my Home" which allows you to detect the state of many devices in HomeKit. Then if a certain state exists (using an if statement here) you can do whatever shortcuts allows. The point I was trying to make is that you can run another shortcut within a shortcut. So, if you are using a personal shortcut to get the state of your home, if that state is a certain value you can then run a regular shortcut which gives you more options.
I like the Apple note template 👍 shortcut
Glad it’s useful!
Great video. How to set an automation that creates a reminder. This reminder is to be exchanged with a notification at the set time.
Hope you know what I'm talking about. :)
Greetings from germany
You can program flic buttons to run shortcuts from the shortcuts app. Not the limited shortcut actions within convert to shortcut
Oh! Have to try that
Great Video, Thanks for the NFC Tag section, it was easy to follow and appreciate the great flow. Keep up the great work, and good luck on your Quest to getting your channel to 100k Followers, your channel is well worth it
Can you make shortcut to listen to podcast with sleep timer
This a great series. It’d be great to see a Siri conversation one using menu actions. I have one when I get home it’s triggered and prompts what I’d like to do listen to music or watch tv.
Thanks!
Very kind! Thank you 🙏🏻
How to schedule whatsapp message to send selected photo automatically..?
Excellent !!!!!
I am searching for a shortcut to scan multiple QR Codes and Barcodes to add them to a list which will be sent out by email.
This is for a packing list and therefor there should maybe be a question after each scan if I want another scan or stop and send.
If you could even take the lets say 6 first letters or numbers to sort the product by name and categorise that in the email even better.
This is to collect serial number and amount of items scanned by type.
Toggle the Vibration ?
Got it!
Hello. Thank you so much for all of the nice shortcut ideas. Would you be able to help me create a shortcut that will track mileage from one location to another and automate it as I drive up to each location? I need to use the app for work to calculate mileage for gas reimbursement. Thank you. 🙏🏿
Oh that's super interesting. Will work on that!
@@beardfm Thank goodness! I appreciate you!!!
Mr Robles is there a "shortcut " to success ?
Nope. Consistency is everything.
can we have a shortcut that open Apple Maps when you are in safari and you googled for a business it brings up the google map. I'm not sure how to phrase to explain this....
There’s actually an app just for that! Mapper, I show it here: ua-cam.com/video/sNZnOHTfY14/v-deo.htmlsi=WGoD1nXCe7Z_c768
@@beardfm yup I know about the app but I would rather have less apps installed on my phone a shortcut would be cool though not sure if it’s possible
I've been trying to make this shortcut/automation for awhile, maybe you could help.
At a certain time, I want a notification to come up and ask me if I'd like to log health data, with options being different things I can log. If I'm not ready to log now, I either want to be able to snooze or even just leave the notification in my Notification Center so I can just interact with it when I'm ready.
Right now I'm using "choose from menu" which works great, I just don't know how to snooze it or leave it in my Notification Center for later if I'm not ready for it when the automation runs.
This is a great question, will include next video!
Can you create a shortcut which will take a input for minutes, based on that input turn the music off after the inputted minutes
I'm looking for a shortcut that I can add tasks from the app Things 3 to the native calendar app, but check if the task already exists in the calendar, and if it does, to not add it, but if it doesn't, to add it to the calendar. I can't find anything that works that way
Hi brother, Really Important Shortcut, How do i auto connect specific bluetooth device with automation ?
earlier i was able to do that but now not, all my shortcuts are wiped on new update don’t know why apple did that !!
I'll work on the bluetooth thing, not sure at the moment!
Can you make an automatic shortcut which will automatically turns on and off my phone's location when using certain apps like maps, uber etc as I don't want my phone's location to be on all the time..thank you :)
Can you program an NFC tag/sticker to function like the single turn NFC antenna found in the Gen 2+ Apple MagSafe wallets? For example, it would be nice to slap an NFC sticker on my Apple MagSafe Battery Pack and write the NFC to report the last known location to Find My App after it was removed. I dont really want to dig out the NFC antenna found in the Apple Wallets... ha
Hm, you could create an automation that when you scan that NFC tag, it gets the current location / address and saves it to Data Jar...will set this up in my next Shortcuts video!
I was wondering if there is a way that you can make a shortcut that acts as a toggle for airdrop so everytime you click it turns it off and next time you click it turns it on and vice versa. I am aware that you can make 2 separate shortcuts to turn it off and on but I need them all in one shortcut so I can add it to the home screen as one icon and one click
Is there an option to create a shortcut that turns off notifications for a particolar application like WhatsApp for you?
Thanks a lot for these shortcut videos.
I wanted to know if there is a shortcut to save a photo/s that i copy to clipboard then when i run the shortcut it would ask me to choose which photo album i'd like to paste it in in the photos app? Sorry for my English and i hope you got the idea.
Yes! Will make that in the next one
@@beardfm
Thank you!
I’m having an issue configuring the “Send Photo” shortcut. The shortcut is stalling on “Select Photos” and won’t open the Photos app for me to select anything. I checked my settings to see if that was a permission between apps needed, but did not find anything. Does anyone have any thoughts or help?
If you put that action into a blank Shortcut, does it work?
Any one figure out how to make an automation triggered by a push notification?
Bro can I use NFC tag for filling password
that'd be pretty cool but I don't think so.
Is it possible to create an NFC tag that automates a HomeKit scene, but isn't a personal automation that way another family member with an Andriod phone can also scan the tag to run the HomeKit scene?
Good question, unfortunately NFC triggers are only available in the personal automation tab. A better option might be to get a HomeKit button this way whoever presses it can run the scene or automation. One of my favorites is the Aqara button, it does require a hub (the E1 is very inexpensive) but they've been the most reliable: amzn.to/3PhA4zk
@@beardfm Thank you! I've really been getting into home automations recently and now have 5 hubs including an Aqara hub, so this button will be a great solution! Or maybe I'll configure my Philips hue remote. Thanks again for great videos!
I have an automation requirement. I want to use a smart plug to put a device in timeout.
I have wifi router that I want to go off for 30 minutes then cut back on automatically.
1. Tap shortcut "Wife Timeout 30 mins"
2. Router plug power cuts off for 30 minutes
3. Router power cuts back on automatically 30 minutes later.
So you can put the router on a smart plug, and then create an automation like this using a WAIT command, but after a few minutes that can get flaky. Not sure of another way to do it at the moment
I bought a pile of NFC tags a while back with the intention of sticking them all over the place. Then I realized there's nothing an NFC tag can do that a simple shortcut cannot do on its own. Just seems like an unnecessary extra step. Am I wrong?
I programmed my nfc tag on my phone but when I use my other phone it doesn’t work but I can re program it. How do I lock my nfc tag to do something simple like add eggs to a shared List
You may need to remove the automation from the first iPhone, but you should be able to scan it with multiple devices and program different actions without an issue. I'd use the built-in Reminders actions to automatically add items to a list like that.
@@beardfm no luck. I can set an automation for phone one
and from phone two it won’t read it.
But on phone two if I go to set up a new nfc automation it reads it to write over the tag instead of reading phone one’s data
Thank you so much, can you make a shortcut video on what all possibilities can be done through whatsapp
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 *📺 Building shortcuts for Apple TV can enhance user experience*
01:00 *⏯️ Shortcuts can pause or play specific Apple TV content*
02:28 *⏩ Shortcuts can skip forward or backward a certain amount of time on Apple TV*
03:20 *📱 Shortcuts can open the remote control on iPhone for Apple TV*
04:18 *🌙 Toggling dark mode can be automated on Apple TV*
05:17 *🏡 Automate home theater experience with Apple TV shortcuts*
06:30 *⏪ Create shortcuts to rewind or go backwards on Apple TV*
07:28 *📝 Using shortcuts, enable captions on Apple TV content in Apple TV app*
Made with HARPA AI
Any thoughts on how to create this without Home Assistant ua-cam.com/video/DhU2Jw2-op8/v-deo.htmlsi=3fH-Iyb8j9UMJWvI
Hm that might be tough. Will look into it!
wtf is the lock screen shortcut for? just press the lock button on the side... jesus christ
It was a viewer request, and I've actually used it on an iPad Pro whose sleep button broke. It's the only way to turn off the screen.
First
Can we have a shortcut that will count and store the number of how many times we mark a recurring reminder as completed in the reminders app?
Hm that’s a good question…
@@beardfm I've been trying to do it for 2 months with no positive results. I've even tried searching on Google and every other platform including the AI chat bots like ChatGPT and Bard. Again no positive results. :(