Are you kidding me? Come on?
What an idiot alright, hey Siri back me up
Come on perfect. Hey Siri stop
Hey Siri, stop. Hey, wait. Hey Apple users know that Siri hasn't really been very good and well
Forever but a new Apple app called shortcuts released alongside iOS 12 , A few days ago allows you to do some really cool stuff
Like program and also download automated actions which can be triggered by Siri basically making your iPhone
pre-programmed priyada mated supercomputer
It's really cool problem is is the apps a little bit intimidating and a lot of people don't know how to get started
So I'm here to show you exactly how it works
Okay, so to get awesome shortcuts on your iOS device. You are perhaps obviously going to need the application shortcuts
Now this was previously called workflow
But Apple bought the app and the company and have released it with more power than ever before to download the latest version you are
Going to need iOS 12 or later because that's required for the series shortcuts
If you haven't updated if your device runs iOS 11, it will run iOS 12 and it does quite a good job
So you should update anyway, but once you've done that you can open the application
Now I have a few shortcuts here that have been pre-programmed, but your page is going to be blank
You won't have anything just to give you some background on how you can trigger some shortcuts
You can either do it from the app page itself
You can also do it from your Notification Center widget and then you can lastly do it through Siri
That's the method that I found the most interesting and fun now you might be wondering
Well, how do I find shortcuts because I have seven here and you have zero
Well, there are a few ways the easiest is to use the built-in gallery that Apple has curated now because Apple has curated it
It's a little bit more limited than you might expect but there are actually some pretty cool actions in here
for example, if we go into the photography section, my favorite one is
convert burst photo to gif
so you click it and then you can click get shortcut and it automatically
Installs into your library now a burst photo is if you open up your camera and hold down the shutter button
It takes, you know a bunch of photos in sequence
Those aren't very useful because you click the photo and you're usually able to select one twenty-five photos as the main photo
However, if you use this convert bursts to gif shortcut, you can click it. It wants you to choose the burst image
So that's the one we just took and then it will convert it to a gif
pretty cool
you can click done and then it will ask you whether you want to share it or save it to your photo role or
Cancel so that's what we're going to do
So the first way to find shortcuts is through Apple's own gallery
The second way which is going to become increasingly more common is third-party applications
Third-party app devs can create their own series shortcuts that are pre curated that you can enable in the settings application
So if you go into settings click a third-party app, and then you click the Siri and search button
You'll find that there is now a shortcut section that will only pop up if the third-party developer has supported shortcuts
So overcast which is my podcast app of choice
Supports Siri shortcuts and one of my favorite podcasts is connected
so there is a command called play connected that I can add and
Then I have to create a serum and now I can do the recommended one overcast connected
but I can make it literally anything I want so I'm going to call it play connected podcast and
Now that's my hot key. So anytime I say that from anywhere in iOS
Play connected podcast
It will resume the episode that I'm currently listening to
Without me having to do anything without me having to enter the app without me having to use the Apple podcast app
It's really cool. And I am betting that there are going to be a ton of powerful features that make it into third party applications
There are one there's one other way to find really great shortcuts and that is using the subreddit
shortcuts
when people have made shortcuts
you can actually share them with others and so reddit is a great place to find a bunch of ones that people have created a
Lot of them are really useful and super powerful and a lot of them are very stupid and absurd like this one
Which is called the pineapple incident
I can click download and the URL opens inside of the app and I can actually see what this app does
By scrolling through this text now this one's actually pretty involved. But what it does is a pixel random content
random contact and sends the pineapple emoji in iMessage 100 times
Really bad shortcut, you'll never want to use that one
But if you wanted to you could
So those are three ways to find premade shortcuts in the gallery in the Settings app and on reddit or online sharing with your friends
But you can also make your own shortcuts
Before we get to that I do want to show you two handy tricks to rearrange your shortcuts that you have
You just hold it down until they wiggle just like on
The app home screen and you can move them around and then to delete them or duplicate them. You just select the
Shortcuts you want so they have a blue checkmark next to them and you can duplicate or delete
So that's one thing to note. The other thing worth noting is how you actually trigger them with series
So this is my calculate tip function
Which I use all the time and historically I've gone into here scrolled over and clicked calculate tip
It asked me the bill when I'm at a restaurant type. I don't know 50 dollars and 72 cents
It asked me how much I want to tip 20 percent and then it gives me my tip amount and my total amount pretty cool
But let's say I want to trigger that using Siri
well
I can if I go into the calculate tip settings I can click this little guy right here and then click Add to Siri
Then I create a shortcut
what's my tip and
Then now anywhere in iOS I can hold trigger Siri. What's my tip?
And
My shortcut will run it asked me for the bill. It tells me the ask me what I want a tip. So $14 and
Then let's do 20% And then there you go. My tip is $2.80 and my total is 1680. So pretty good
That's how you do it. But again I mentioned you can make your own shortcut
I
just bought a Tesla Model 3 and I am very excited about it and
I'll talk about it later in the future. A lot of people want a full review
I'll do that
Once I've had the car for a few months
But one of the things that I've really enjoyed is that Tesla has an open API
so there is an application called remote s
Which allows you to do quite a few more things than the regular Tesla app?
Does I can change the exact temperature?
I can open the trunk and the Frank I can honk the horn
most of those the regular Tesla
Do but I can do a few other things like track the app or track the cars location in real time modify charge settings, etc
Anyway, that's probably more than you care to know
Remote s has a few pre-made functions like I mentioned with overcast
So if I go here and then I scroll down to remote s I can click a Syrian search
Shortcuts and I can create an activate from so that will open the front trunk on my car
If I tap add I can say that's actually a good command. I'll use that open the front and
When I say open the front using Siri
Open the front
In theory it opens your trunk now the problem with this is I don't like it because it requires an extra step
It asked me do I want to open it?
and
If I if it asked me that I have to have the phone in my hand to tap yes or no or to give it
A verbal confirmation and I don't really want to do that so I can actually modify this shortcut
Let's delete it first and then I can create my own
Inside of shortcuts, so I'm going to go in to shortcuts
Create a shortcut. And now you can actually see that there are a bunch of options here that you can create your own shortcut
So you can open an app you can do a calendar event
You can do scripting which we'll talk about in a minute
or I can scroll down to a premade shortcut remote s tap it tap the activate trunk command and
Then I can actually just disable show in run. This means that everything will happen in the background
I don't need to provide confirmation and the minute I say open trunk
well, it'll open I'm going to turn that off and then I am going to
Click the icon to add to Siri and now I need to give it a Siri command. So
Open the front
Alright and then I can change the shortcut if I want so let's call this open Frank
And then I can give it an icon if I want so let's make it a
Car and then red. Okay. So now anywhere in iOS I'm done and I can go
Open the
The shortcut will run and it opens without me having to do anything let me demonstrate. Hey Siri open Frank
But I can already see some of you saying and that doesn't seem very secure and you're right
so the great thing about this is that I can make this workflow a little bit more complex and
I want to do it by adding a verbal password. So let's start over. I'll show you
Basically how powerful this can get if you're willing to play around and read the descriptions on some of these items
So let's go into scripting scripting is cool because it allows you to create a bunch of conditional logic items
So if I'm going to give it a password, let's say when I say open the front. It'll say okay fine. What's your password?
So what I need to do is find an area or an item where I can dictate text to the device
It's not in here. It's actually probably going to be in
Text and then I can click
Yeah, there you go dictate text. So now what happens when I run the workflow is
It wants me to
Say something out loud. And then when I'm done, it will pass whatever I say on to the next step now
We haven't programmed a next step yet, so nothing happens
but let's
Keep that that's fine. And then it actually wants me that's the dictate text that I'm looking for
So let's riad it dictate text. Perfect. And then once I pause it stops listening and it passes it on to the next step
So now we need the next step and let's use a variable
These are pretty powerful. So if I use an if variable, this is where we get into conditional logic
So it gives me a few options if something happens then do this
Otherwise do that and then end the command so I'm going to dictate text. Say my password
That's what I want it to say, but it doesn't know what it's looking for
So if my input equals because it's password
If it's not perfectly, correct, then it shouldn't unlock the car and then we need to enter the value
That's the password that it's looking for
I don't know. Let's do
coconut
That will be my password
okay, so if I dictate text and that text equals coconut then
Do what we wanted to do, which is open the trunk
So now we're going to go in here find my remote s again and then click activate trunk
Oh, no, we want the front activate the trunk
okay, and then we're going to cancel show and run because again
We don't need that to pop up and we need to drag that inside of our if variable
so if I say the right password then open the trunk and
That's really all I need to do
but what if they enter the wrong password, so otherwise
Meaning they don't say a value that equals coconut. They say something else the wrong password
Then we need to punish them somehow now I could just end it and the script doesn't complete properly, but that's no fun
So let's throw some variables in here
That will let the person know that they've done the wrong thing
Maybe someone steals my phone and they try to break into my car using my Siri shortcut
Well, what can I do to let them know they've screwed up let's go into
Scripting again. And this does a lot of low-level device features. You can for example vibrate the device
So let's vibrate like a buzzer
Otherwise if they get it wrong, so we're going to drag this into otherwise
so when they say the wrong password the device is going to vibrate kind of like a
Wrong answer and then what else could we do? Oh
I've got it we can rickroll them
So if I enter this area I can find that there is a music shortcut
I click music and then let's see, okay
well
We need to find the music because the music app doesn't know to rickroll
Unless we tell it to find the song and then play it so we need to click find music
We're going to drag that again underneath this tree of command. So otherwise vibrate the device and then finding music
so we need to add a filter and
the song so we need to find title is
Never gonna give you up and we need to do the exact whole title. Otherwise, it's not going to work
Okay, so we've done never gonna give you up and
Then after that, oh, do you know what's even better?
Let's raise the volume to 100% So it's really loud and really annoying. So let's go into scripting
We will go down to set volume and we can make the volume of the system
100% that is going to be really irritating. So what happens is
If they get the wrong password the device vibrates the volume on the device gets set to 100%
it looks for the song never going to give you up and now we only need one more thing and that's to tell the
Device to play the song so we need to go into music and then click
Play music and then it will actually play the song that we've listed. So there's our workflow. It's done
That's all we have to do. And so let's work through it. Again. It's going to ask us when we say. Hey Siri, I
Probably shouldn't say that
I'm gonna say hey dingleberry
Open the or open the front and when I say open the front, it's gonna say ok
It's going to ask me to dictate some text and I need to say the password
If I say coconut then the trunk opens, if I don't say coconut then this tree of items happens
Which is the device vibrates the volume gets set to 100%
ITunes looks up never going to give you up and then it plays it at full blast and that's my command
I press done and it's ready to go. So let's try it out. Hey Siri open trunk
Coconut
Hey Siri open Frank
Password
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