Concerning Shortcuts: There is no way to toggle vibration on and off with a shortcut, is there?
Nice trick is if you hit the volume button you can drag on the volume indicator that pops up to change the volume instead of just using the hardware buttons.
I also tried to play a sound when my automation ends. It seems I canât choose the type of sound but I could âpaste from Clipboardâ? Anyone tried to paste a file from clipboard?
I have a Shortcut that plays a sound from a Dropbox file. Roughly itâs Get File â Play Sound
. Does that help? I havenât tried using the clipboard.
Thanks. Iâll try that out.
Ok, this IS inconsistent. How come âConnects to CarPlayâ and âPlay Musicâ combo allows to run automatically without intervention?
Unfortunately, the answer seems to be âBecause someone at Apple decided that was OK.â
Why do some require confirmation? âBecause someone at Apple decided that was required.â
I assume that there is some sort of logic behind it. but I donât think we know what it is.
Perhaps they decided that if the shortcut to play music gets accidentally triggered, it only bothers you, but if the message shortcut accidentally gets triggered, that might bother someone else?
We can speculate, but I donât think we can really know.
Completely agree. Automations that require human intervention are âManualsââŚnot Automation. It is so stupid. I set up an âAutomationâ to text my wife when I leave work, but all I get is an alert to then manually send it. What a joke. Apple please fix this.
Btw, if you donât like that your phone always place music when plugged into CarPlay, there is a âPlay/Pauseâ actions which you can choose when the trigger is âConnect to CarPlayâ. That will stop the pesky music and you donât need to resort to playing a silent track named âAaaaaaaaaaaaâ.
This also works when connecting to the carâs Bluetooth wirelessly, although, you do need to manually run the shortcuts (sigh!)
In the episode they didnât mention the improvements to text editing/selection. I havenât had too much time to really evaluate this, but if itâs true this would be one of the most important features. Text selection was one of the biggest flaws imho.
But thereâs supposed to be a new contextual menu with copy/paste/undo which sounded great, but I didnât see this anywhere yet. How do I invoke that? I still only get the old black bar.
When editing text, tap with three fingers. A little modal pops up with some buttons for undo, copy, etc.
You can also swipe left with three fingers for undo and right for redo.
Catching up with Episode 501, and Iâve heard no mention of the principle issues with Shortcuts, both in organising shortcuts in the App and the frustrating way shortcuts run, stepping through actions line by line. This should be a de-bugging tool and not the standard when running workflows.