Does anyone use "Shortcuts" on their phone?
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I have several installed, and one of the most useful is something called "email myself."
If I find a webpage, picture, whatever that I want to get back to later, I tap on the "share" icon and "email myself" comes up as an option - the item is emailed to me automagically. "Hey Siri, scan a QR code is another useful one.
I found an article on how to tell Siri to take a picture and save it to my photos album. However, I'm having trouble getting the app to actually take the photo.
"Hey Siri, take a picture" opens the camera app, but doesn't automagically take the photo, I still have to press the "shutter" button.
Any clue what I'm doing wrong? Is it an accessibility issue?
Here's the article:
LInk: USE YOUR VOICE TO TAKE IPHONE PHOTOS
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I really suck at using these type of features. Is there a way to schedule a text to go out on a certain day and time?
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@copper said in Does anyone use "Shortcuts" on their phone?:
I tried it
I had to Setup Voice Control to get it to turn on
Then I got the number tags on the buttons
But it still didn't work
There is a downloadable shortcut called "Say Cheese." It doesn't work either.
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I've never used Shortcuts on my phone before.
I'm not tech savvy. I know enough to get by.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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I have three that I use quite a bit.
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Finds the nearest gas station and sends its address to Waze, then starts navigation.
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Checks the current weather in my location: it spits out the temperature, windchill/heat index, UV index, probability of precipitation in the next hour.
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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.
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