Shortcuts is a powerful tool on iPhone but most users don’t know about it or how to use it. It also includes Automation tool that works similarly to the if and then condition. This means you can trigger many automatic operations by just creating automations. Here are 10 Shortcuts Automation you can create on your iPhone to make your daily life easier and fun. Let’s begin!
1. Change Orientation of Specific Apps
Many users, including myself prefer the Auto Rotate feature off. It’s because the feature gets annoying when the iPhone tilts automatically when we don’t want it to tilt. At the same time when using apps like YouTube, Streaming Apps, and some specific sites, I use them in the auto orientation mode On. But to do that I have to change the Orientation settings every time. With Shortcuts, you can adjust orientation for specific apps and avoid changing it manually every time. Create one more Automation but this time Choose ‘Is Closed’ in Step 4 and set Orientation Lock to ‘On’ in Step 6. Make sure to choose the same set of apps in this automation as well. Now when you open select apps, the Orientation Lock will turn off and you will be able to use the app in portrait and landscape based on iPhone angle.
2. Auto Sleep Mode On and Off
If you don’t want to set Focus Mode every time manually, you can always choose to set automation for it. For example, if you want to set Sleep Mode during your sleep routine, then you can manually set a specific time to activate Sleep Mode. Similar to the Sleep Mode you can set Automation for other Focus Mode.
3. Turn Off WiFi and Internet based on Location
If you use WiFi at home or office and Cellular Data outside your home or office, then you can create automation to make things easy. The Automation will turn off WiFi when you are outside and turn on WiFi when you reach home, all automatically. Here’s how to create automation for it. Now create Leave automation and this time set WiFi to off and Mobile Data to On. What it will do is, when you arrive home, WiFi will turn on and Mobile Data will turn off. When you leave home, the WiFi will turn off and Mobile Data will turn on Automatically.
4. Schedule Messages
You can also schedule your messages, but the time should be for within a day. So if you plan to send a message the same day but at a later time, you can schedule it with Text Automation. If you don’t want to send the message automatically in repeat order, you need to delete the Automation once the message is sent.
5. Turn WiFi Password into a QR
Unlike Android phones, iPhone does not have option to share connected WiFi network with QR code. You can see the password of the connected WiFi but can not share it with QR code. However with this Shortcut, you can create a QR code to share WiFi. That’s it, you can scan the QR Code to easily connect to the WiFi.
6. Take Screenshots with iPhone Frame
You may have seen a bunch of screenshots with the iPhone frame and you will agree with me that it looks good. If you have also wanted to get same type of screenshots, then you can do that with this shortcut. The image will be saved with iPhone Frames that you can check it in Gallery. The frame will be same as your iPhone model. You can’t choose a different model for frame.
7. Launch Music on connecting to CarPlay
If you have ever wondered that connecting to CarPlay should auto play music, you will be glad to know its possible with the help of Automation. With this automation Audiophiles can save time. Playing music manually every time can be exhausting for those who drives daily. To save your time, follow the steps below to create autoplay automation. To stop Music when you disconnect your iPhone from CarPlay, you need to manually stop the music as currently there is no automation to close apps.
8. Lock Apps
If you are an iPhone user, you know that the device doesn’t have lock apps feature. Although Apple advertise iPhone as a secure phone, it doesn’t have basic ability to lock apps. Since this is a must have feature for many users, they are willing to explore alternative methods to lock apps. You might be surprised to know you can use automation to lock apps indirectly. It’s not actually app lock, but it utilizes the phone lock feature. This means when you open a locked app after applying automation the device will be locked automatically. And once you enter the password or face id, the device will open with the app. Here’s the steps to implement this automation. That’s it! Now when you launch selected apps, the phone will lock. It’s not the full proof app lock, but it does the same work.
9. Mute Audio for Specific Apps
Sometimes, when we launch apps like Instagram, TikTok, YouTuber, they resume from where we left off. So if you left in the middle of a Reel or Short, it will start playing as soon as you open the app again. And this could turn out to be weird situation if you are in a office, library or somewhere you shouldn’t play any video out loud. But you can take precautions by setting the audio to mute by default for these apps. I am going to share how to mute apps automatically with automation. Now when you open a selected app, the Media volume will automatically switch to 0. You can also create a reverse automation by selecting when app closed and then set media volume back to specific percent. Or you can skip it and change volume to normal manually.
10. Notify When Connects to Charger
This incident has happened to me multiple times. I connect my iPhone to charger and assume its charging, but when I come back after sometime, I realize that my iPhone is not charging, maybe because I forgot to turn on the switch or due to some other reason. So it would be really helpful if the phone makes sound or speak something with the help of Siri when we put iPhone to charging. This is also possible with Shortcuts Automation. Now when you connect your iPhone to charger, Siri will speak the word you set in the Automation. These are some cool Automation for iPhone. Shortcuts is really an amazing tool you can use to set thousands of automation to make your life easy. If you weren’t aware of the Automation, you have been missing on some amazing tasks you can do on your iPhone. But now you know about this feature and take advantage of it. You can try and create your own automations from available options.
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