Does anyone use "Shortcuts" on their phone?

[MainerMikeBrown]

I've never used Shortcuts on my phone before.

I'm not tech savvy. I know enough to get by.

[Klaus]

No clue, sorry.

[George K]

Figured it out.

In the dialog box here:

There's an option under "show more" that allows you to disable the camera preview. Once that's disabled, the photo is taken and automatically added to your photo album.

I'm not sure if that's a good idea, however, because you don't see what the camera will capture.

But it'll be fun to play with.

[Axtremus]

I have never knowingly used a “shortcut” on my phone. :man-shrugging:

[George K]

@axtremus check them out. Quite handy.

[89th]

Once again, @George-K shows how l337 he is! I didn’t know shortcuts were an option... and I am often emailing myself an article, thanks!

[George K]

@89th https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/discover-shortcuts-in-the-gallery-apdd018638ca/ios

[George K]

"Hey, Siri! I'm getting pulled over"

This shortcut may be useful when getting pulled over by the police.

It pauses any music that may be playing, turns down your brightness and volume, turns on Do Not Disturb, and sends a message to the contact of your choosing letting them know you’re being pulled over and what your current location is. It then opens your front camera and starts a video recording so you have a video record of being pulled over.

Once you stop the recording it sends a copy of the video to a contact you specify, puts volume and brightness back to where they were, turns off Do Not Disturb, and gives you the option to send to iCloud Drive or Dropbox!

Works best when used with a phone dash mounted, but that’s just my opinion.

[George K]

Link to video

[George K]

Found another useful shortcut: "Hey, Siri! Record Video."

This will open the camera and immediately start recording live video using the back camera.

There are times when I want to record a live video (kids or pets), and it's a PITA to open the camera.app, slide over to "video" rather than "photo", and press the "record" button.

This one shortcut does it all.

[Aqua Letifer]

I have three that I use quite a bit.

1. Finds the nearest gas station and sends its address to Waze, then starts navigation.

2. Checks the current weather in my location: it spits out the temperature, windchill/heat index, UV index, probability of precipitation in the next hour.

3. Opens up a list of articles from about 8 or so RSS feeds that I set up for news websites. It gives me a list of all the articles published in the past 48 hours from those sources. If I tap on an article, it "opens" the article in reader view (but I don't see this) and then sends that version to my eReader. Articles are there and already downloaded by the time I get around to reading them.