Learn how to execute personal iOS automations in Apple's Shortcuts app on your iPhone and iPad completely silently, without ever seeing the annoying notification banner.
Personal Automations
How to automatically silence your Apple Watch based on location
While your Apple Watch makes some nice and useful sounds, you don’t always want to hear them. You may have sounds for alerts, reminders, or to let you know the time. But if you’re heading someplace where those sounds can annoy others, you probably want to silence them.
So that you never forget to enable Theater Mode or Silent Mode, you can set up automations to turn these on automatically based on your location. Here, we’ll show you how to create these automations for your Apple Watch in the Shortcuts app.
How to automatically change your Apple Watch face based on time or location
Learn how to use the power of shortcuts and automation to change your Apple Watch face automatically based on sunrise, sunset, chosen custom time of the day, or your location.
How to use the new automation triggers in Shortcuts
Automations in the Shortcuts app give you awesome ways to make tasks simpler. With automations, you can do things like open an app, play music, or make a phone call, all automatically based on triggers you set up.
The Shortcuts app offers both personal and home automations to make your life a little easier. And with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, you have even more triggers available. Here, we’ll show you how to use some of these new personal automation triggers in Shortcuts.
How to assign your favorite apps or custom automation shortcuts to the stock Lock Screen and Control Center toggles
With the power of iOS automation, you can open a different app when you tap the app icon of another app. Confused? It's pretty awesome and useful for several cases.