The iPhone Shortcuts App Explained - iOS Siri Shortcuts for Beginners
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The Shortcuts app for iPhone is one of the most powerful, yet under-used and misunderstood apps on the iPhone. In this much requested video, I'll break down the fundamentals of the app for beginners, and help you get started with a couple of sample shortcuts.
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Chapters;
0:00 - Intro
1:08 - What is a Shortcut?
4:25 - How does Siri factor in?
5:03 - How do you 'get' Shortcuts?
6:22 - Creating our first Shortcut
9:30 - Creating a more complex Shortcut
15:32 - The Shortcuts Gallery
18:07 - End - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Is there any way to create a shortcut to turn and turn off location services ? In Android we can do it from notification bar but in iPhone we need to go to Privacy -> Location Services and toggle it ON whenever using maps......Is it possible to add location services to Control centre or automate this via shortcut where in whenever i open Google maps/or any app requiring location, the location services should get ON and OFF after certain time automatically
Honestly, I only recently found your channel from a recommendation of another channel (I forgot which one), but I honestly believe that your channel deserves all the views & likes. I love your clear diction and voice, as well as the fact that you talk slowly enough so that I can use the speed-up option (nothing personal, I am like that with any video content); also your visual tutorials are spot on! I am getting inspiration on how to make things for my work projects (I'm maintaining a lot of documentation and how-to guides).
Simply brilliant work! Looking forward to new content 🙏
Loved shortcuts 101. Can you do a video how to create the maps shortcut to “get me home”? I can’t figure it out and haven’t found a video for that useful shortcut yet. Ty so much! Jan 6, 2024
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You have made my children obsolete. Your great tutorials are my go-to as a 'senior' and I love impressing my friends - and my kids - with my new found tech knowledge.
Your first sentence really made me laugh!
You forgot that you learning from your kids is bonding
@@KrolMichael93 I've forgotten nothing, but I do know that there is only so much time I can ask of them when there are other sources of information.
This is a pretty high-level tutorial, keep it up and you’ll be teaching your kids soon lol
@@karencramer6491 spot on response. I absolutely love helping/answering my parents tech questions. After all it’s the small thing I can do to repay them for teaching me everything I know. I must admit though I love even more to hear about them tell me of something they learned. It honestly makes them happy as well. I can always hear the accomplishment.
I often dip my toe into shortcuts but then get frustrated and leave. I have a couple set up for arriving at work and heading home. I ride a motorbike so the arrival sends my wife a message saying I got to work safe, it then changes the focus on my phone and my watch to ‘work’. The heading home sends a message with my ETA home, then sets my phone and watch to the normal focus. 👍👍
Wow! I just created my own “safety shortcut”! It will take a pic (front & back camera), get current location & send it to recipients of my choice. Great for if you’re in a location where you feel unsafe.
Thank you for the content!
That's very clever! That's the kind of feature I think Apple could add as an option for check-in.
@@ProperHonestTechthank you!
Brilliant idea, thanks for sharing!
is there a way you can share this?
When is it activated ?
You fast have became my 'go-to-guy' when it comes to iPhone tutorials. Very simple, engaging, and useful. Thank you.
I’m impressed that you understand that A) many of us who are competent in both computers and iPhone functions get lost in the Shortcuts maze & B) that there isn’t a basic Shortcut tutorial on TH-cam. That’s a pretty good observation. Anticipating what an audience is going to think, at the time or slightly before they’ve actually thought it, makes one excellent in the process of communications. A valuable quality for anyone, but especially for those providing the service of teaching lessons. As a presenter, your inner confidence mixed with the calming sound of your voice uplifts your credibility. And after all is said and done, the most important thing in being successful in the online world is credibility. From the early days of eBay and Amazon, those who recognized its importance and sought it are still around and kicking. Those who did not are not. Keep up the good work. I for one appreciate it.
Thanks for your kind words, I really do appreciate it!
@@ProperHonestTech Your welcome. I wanted to add that if the USA is someplace that you’d like to live, I have no doubts - that with proper management - you can gain on air exposure that’ll land you in wherever you choose. A realistic strategy would be to start with a daily tech minute or two, run 6 times a day on radio. There are 50 states, most have many local stations, all told about 200 unique signals. Each pays to run your spot, price is determined by reach and overall station ratings - for example if you got half of the uniques, that’s 100 and if the average revenue was $50 a day, 5 times a day that’s $25k a week. Getting by money and exposure. Management would seek the television, like a show on OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) or PBS, FNC, CNN or CNET etc. - podcasts could become a bridge to build an audience, don’t know the $ - was before my time - I have no agenda except to see if my gift of recognizing talent before others is still active - my Rolodex final viable contact was 411 which was the phone company’s information number on obtaining a phone number by giving the operator the person’s name. - but they folded, just like the Yellow Pages a couple decades back - good luck in all your endeavors, see you on the aptly named TH-cam - and maybe on my local radio station and on National TV
You’re a great teacher giving clear and precise instructions. So many others say “click here” or “press there” which, when trying to follow them, are next to useless needing stopping and starting vids. Really looking forward to your series on shortcuts. Thank you and keep up the good work..
I absolutely love this as I’ve been hesitant to try shortcuts. Thank you for explaining in detail and being thorough…
I’ve started creating my own shortcuts lately. First one I have is fairly simple, but helpful. I put my phone on Airplane mode every night and also set an alarm to wake up with the kids. Set up a shortcut that every time I put my phone on airplane mode, it toggles “on” my morning alarm. And when I wake up, and take my phone off airplane mode, it toggles my alarm off. I think I can even set the schedule for it to do this automatically but I haven’t gotten there yet. Shortcuts are going to be very fun for me to continue to explore and very useful.
Wow… I appreciate the way you’ve taught Shortcuts. I’m trying to learn but I get so damned anxious because I want to learn everything in one day. Your deliberate style helped me to keep watching… Bravo!
One the best Tech channel around. All the tech with no hype. Clear diction , pertinent content and smooth presentation.
Watching your videos is creating a real dilemma for me🥲 It’s so informative that I don’t want to loose focus even a second. But your voice is so peacefully nice and soft that I just want to sleep while listening to it. So now I watch your videos twice 😂 First time to get the information, second time to calm down. Thank you for this nice content 🥹🥹🥹🥹
Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Thank you for explaining in such a straight forward & fascinating way. I’ve just got a new mobile & noticed the app but thought it wasn’t for me. I certainly know otherwise now.
I can not thank you enough for this video! I always wanted to be able to use shortcuts as I knew and heard it’s an amazing tool but was clueless on how to operate it to a point where I actually deleted the app out of frustration. You made it so very clear and easy to understand so I downloaded it again and having a great time creating my own simple shortcuts for everyday simple tasks. Thank you!!
Thanks!! Subscribed!!
Superb tutorial very succinctly presented. A lot of prep work has gone in behind the scenes to make this look so easy.
Wow - thank you! That was so useful. I had no idea my phone could do this, and your explanation was very accessible. Just by the way, I love your set and the way you've lit it and yourself. The subtle changes in lux and temperature are masterful. With greetings from Cape Town!
Fabulously lucidly explained as all your tutorials are. Whenever people enthuse about shortcuts I am struck by how they are describing circumstances I never am in or functions for which I never have any use. This did nothing to convince me either and again described 'needs' that are never part of my day. Just as an aside, I've just done the mail a screenshot exercise manually, it took me 7 seconds, I'm not so busy that 7 seconds is crucial! My ears did prick up at the delaying text message feature you mentioned which I have explored and discarded in the past because it was useless and when I checked it still is the same as it was in that you have to leave the shortcut app open and the screen unlocked for it to work which remains beyond useless.
That said, you remain the first port of call for excellent information.
This was the best explanation I've seen on shortcuts. I am finding your tutorials really helpful. Thanks for doing them!
My favourite shortcut is to automatically set a different wallpaper for each focus mode - so when I go to work I give myself a more plain wallpaper, when I work out I have a more energetic one etc. I've paired this with different home screens for each focus mode too so that I get my to do list, calendar etc. for work and fitness related apps for working out.
That’s such a great idea
Dude that's clever! Why didn't I get this idea by myself? But... I hope you weren't disappointed when Apple announced that you'll be able to set individual wallpapers for different focus modes in iOS 16, so your shortcut becomes obsolete😉
@@chhmo9851 From what I've seen it's only lock screens (and their wallpapers) that are able to change with focus modes, but if home screen wallpapers are able to do it too that's perfect as that's what I want!
@@TyroSean yeah that's a good point. It would be weird if they'd only make it available on lock screens though. But kinda Apple like also...
@@TyroSean No it works also with homescreens - I use the beta and could now finally delete that automation of changing the wallpaper when changing focus modes 😀
Hey this was a really good reminder for me to explore Shortcuts a lot deeper. I've made some pretty basic ones and dabbled with some more complicated ones but my biggest issue is recognising that I need to create them because by the time I see a use case I get distracted by some other task. I guess a course in time management would be a good idea for me eh!
Another great tutorial on a very useful iOS app! You are the best tutor of all things Apple I have ever seen on TH-cam! Thanks you... I'll sign up for Morning Brew!
your tutorial videos are always detailed and straightforward,, keep up 🤩
Wow, this video is amazing! Informative, straightforward, and easy to understand. You did a great job explaining about Shortcuts! I'm about to use an iPhone again after years and heard great things about Shortcuts, but didn't fully get the hype until I watch your video today. Explaining it as Excel function got me! And now I understand how powerful this tool could be, such a time saver-so thank you so much for making this excellent video.
Thank you - you are a fabulous teacher. I could not make head nor tail of this app and yet the idea of what it could do was so appealing. I gave up with it but now I am all the more efficient with my iphone. You are so clear and straightforward - every word is relevant no filtering out the distracting witty (not) dialogue and waffle of some other youtubers. I now have a very clear understanding of this app so I am very grateful to you
THANK YOU for this video- so many people gloss over the finer details and you really went in depth, step by step. I now have a very solid understanding of Shortcuts. Great video!❤
i’ve never seen a clean tutorial like this man. Great work !!!
Dude I love your videos man. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge on iOS with your fan base🙏🏻🖤
Thank you for this informative video. I finally have learned what shortcuts are and what they are used for and I am very eager to try them out. Thanks again!
Great video as always on your channel, specially love this shortcuts series, I’m waiting for more like this
I. I am so happy that you are showing how to do this. I tried setting up a Shortcuts for my morning wake up routine and it didn’t work. Very grateful for your tutorials.
And now I’m trying reminders for a shopping list. I’m doing it for different stores to.
I’ve watched several videos now on understanding and making shortcuts and I barely understood a word of them. I almost gave up but this video was next in the list to watch and so I watched it. Well! I can’t thank you enough for your clear and easy to understand tutorial and I was so relieved to finally find something that will help me…. Thank you so much
Using Shortcuts and iOS, it is so complicated to do something so simple. I could do all these things with a couple of tabs on my Samsung. That is why I’m going back this year.
One of the best videos ever. I recently moved from Android to iOS and although there was some differences but it wasn't breakthrough or anything but this shortcut app is something amazing. And the way you explained is also amazing. Will regularly check your videos😊😊
Love your videos. You explain everything so clearly. Thanks
I really appreciate this detailed tutorial. I’ve never used Shortcuts before. I’m about to try it! 😅 Thank you
I’m so glad I found this video! I now have a shortcut that adds my water fitness routine without me selecting all the options! And since it’s the same routine every day, it’s a great improvement not to have to select the type, calories, date, and time duration! Thanks so much!
I find your tutorials very helpful-you speak clearly and slowly enough for those of us techno challenged individuals ☺️
Please may I ask you to do a tutorial on gmail and how to answer emails inline with a different font colour
Thanks for your brilliant tutorial. I did my first shortcut when I got the phone initially but that was it. I appreciate it.
~ Absolutely amazing, what can be done on a smartphone. Thank you for enticing me to start creating shortcuts! 👊🏽 Really enjoy your Channel, & the way you present your information. Carry on! 🙌🏽
Calm, sensible explanation in understandable English; what more could be asked for ? Many thanks.
I'm so excited to finally learn how to use the shortcut app and optimize my iPhone to it's fullest capabilities
These video's are life changing. Thank you so much for these amazing vids. keep up the amazing work!
I tried to understand shortcuts by looking to other videos but this one was the best which ended my confusion of what and how the shortcuts work and how to use them thanks
Sooo very helpful. Thank you for explaining and describing the shortcut app so brilliantly.
Very clear and helpful. Thank you.
This is an awesome how to I built a shortcut to help me transfer all the information I taken while doing a state inspection on a vehicle, to hold it for reference until the inspection is complete, and I have input the data into the computer. Then a second shortcut to purge all information after work from that day so awesome don’t have to manually free up room in my phone anymore. Thank you so much.
Commendations from your newest subscriber! An excellent introductory overview that is produced with great production values and useful narration.
I liked this video. I created a shortcut on my iPhone to change the Apple Watch face. One for night and one for day. Noe I have one that sets the watch to Always on during the day, and turns it off each night. I have been looking for more detailed ones but have not had time to look and learn them. Thank you for this lesson, and hope to see more about shortcuts later.
Impressed by the efforts that you have taken to educate the mankind about the shortcuts app. Great content! Subscribed. And, Thank you so much.
Just discovered your channel. Have just subscribed. I like your delivery and presentation. Hope the channel grows from here!
I have been creating and making my own complex shortcuts for a while now, glad to see more people are getting into it and learning how to use it.
I pretty much did trial and error for everything I could think of before I would say I got comfortable with it.
Honestly the shortcuts I have made and shared amongst friends save myself and others a ton of time in everyday life and are a ton of fun to put together.
What kind of shortcuts have you made yourself, just for some inspiration?
u should put them up on the reddit forum so we can download them
A lot of people have the shortcuts app installed on their iPhone but never use it. The average user dosen’t really have the time or dedication to make complex shortcuts. The visual scripting aspect does make it easier, but some of the actions are more understandable by power users.
I have made multiple shortcuts of my own with multiple purposes. Some of them do things like to generate Minecraft commands, make a report about your location, extract the audio from a video, create a GIF, and fully turn WiFi/Bluetooth off (since you can’t do it from Control Center)
The Shortcuts app has definitely evolved since it’s release back in iOS 12, but there are still some specific tasks that it can’t cover yet. Maybe in the future you can use the Shortcuts app to make dinner.
Not really my most useful one but my favourite ones I’ve created are where it shows you a photo and you have to either guess where or when it is. It does require your entire recents album to be properly sorted but it’s very fun to use and shows memories from random times aswell
Man... Can you share it??
@@chhmo9851 my comment keeps disappearing I hope I haven’t done it like 7 times
Maybe it deletes it because it has a link in it
You are so awesome and a natural teacher! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks! 🙏
Wonderful explanation. Really helpful. Appreciate your efforts. Thank you 🙏
The most clear explanation! Well done and thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your video. I’ve never looked into before. I’m glad I came across this video and I am going to make me a heap o’ shortcuts✌️
He always explains things so good. Thank you.
Thank you for all the great information. I didn’t know about shortcuts until now. I created one on my iPad. I always have difficulty taking screenshots on my iPad. I end up closing the screen instead of taking a screen shot 😒. I created a shortcut and added to my dock, now when I want a screen shot, I just swipe up a little until my docks show and tap my short cut I made for screen shots. I will be exploring this feature more!
Thanks A BUNCH! I’ve been using this theme for about a while now but I don’t have much of the apps I use, so I’ll use this to blend it in!
It’s like going to Apple University! Thanks so much for sharing your content so I can get the most out of my iPhone. 💓💓💓
Thank you! Your videos are so helpful and this is the best shortcuts how to I’ve seen. I feel like I can finally use shortcuts
You are the best bro. To be able to use shortcuts made lots of things way easier for me.
Great video to get people start using Shortcuts. I´ve made a lot of them myself and love it. One of them is at night, when I´m in bed and ready to go to sleep. I select the "good night" shortcut and it turns my Philips Hue lights off, asks me when I wanna wake up, so I select a predefined alarm, set my phone to do not disturb and then I´m ready to go to sleep. Another simple, yet useful one, I call it "websites" I have made a shortcut so that it asks me which of my favorite websites I wanna open, I select one and it opens that page for me in safari. Simple and useful.
Thank you 👍🏻. Look forward to seeing future videos on Shortcuts.
Love reading morning brew. All the bite(I need) in small bits . Love your videos as much as I ❤️my iPhone
That was very helpful. Thank you, I all but forgot about this app, now I think it will be useful .
Thanks a lot!!
Finnally it seems to me that I will be able to use the Shorcuts tool.
I tried a couple of times with little success.
👍👌
I just upgraded from my Galaxy S5 (almost 10 years) to an iPhone 15 Pro. (first time using an iPhone). And there is a HUGE learning curve! ... The best tip I got was how to make a shortcut to make a phone. Thank you!!!
The shortcuts app is fantastic. Recently I created a shortcut for merging images. I use it to stitch screenshots of the same thing to have it in one file.
Thanks for this video! Honestly, up until now I have been too stupid for understanding or crearting shortcuts but now I will give them another try! Please keep on making this very useful content! 😀👍
I’m more than happy with Your professional content. Finally something not for only click bites
Very well explained. You are a natural!
I love the idea of shortcuts but for the life of me, I can’t think of one shortcut that I would use or one that would save me time.
I have got a couple on my watch though. The Face changes when I get up and at sunset.
I agree and I’m 100% in the same boat as you. I really want to use shortcuts and have looked at it periodically over the last couple years but still haven’t found, or come up with, one idea that I would use regularly.
Even the first shortcut example presented here is redundant (I realize the author is just using it as an example of what can be done). I simply ask Siri to facetime my contact and it is done. I don’t need a shortcut for that.
Still, I recognize the potential and see the power this app has. I’m just waiting for the killer idea or need to come along…and waiting, and waiting, and waiting…🤔😂
@@pat5star there’s simpler ideas for it rather than the automated stuff. For example you can set up up to 8 accessible shortcuts that you can reach from the Lock Screen by swiping right. I have “Amazon orders “ as one which saves you from opening the phone, then going to Amazon then clicking on orders. A simple right swipe then click and you’re there. You can do the same for any website’s particular page.
This is a perfect shortcut 101 class thank you, I will be watching the more advanced ones 😊
Shortcuts demystified. Thank you 🙏🏾
really looking forward to more videos on Shortcuts. This one is great!
It's something I really want to try and focus on in the early part of 2023!
There’s lots of dope shortcuts I use to help with using transit.
So glad you made this! Thx!
Outstanding, need to start using shortcuts Thank You!
great sharing. I was confused how to use this app. Definitely I will give it a try now. thank you so much
Useful introduction to shortcuts 👍
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I appreciate your efforts on putting out this immediately useable content.
Thank you for showing how this works. I didn’t understand it till your video!! No I am going to try to create some short cuts!
Hi I’m a developer and I create apple shortcuts I’m not new I create shortcuts and publish them from 2 years if you need a help I’m here
I'm new to iOS and I've been using Shortcuts to accomplish many of the things I was able to do on Android that aren't native to iOS.
For example, generating QR codes to share my WiFi with people. I know you can share WiFi with AirDrop, but not everyone uses an iPhone so I need something that works with both platforms.
Another is creating home screen shortcuts for certain important files like my car insurance that I only carry digitally now since it's allowed in my state and I want to access quickly.
I also use handful of Automations for things like turning off my Do Not Disturb at a specific time or when my alarm goes off in the morning.
I feel I'm just scratching the surface of the capabilities of this utility, but it's been kind of fun getting these features to work and basically fill in the feature gaps between iOS and Android.
This shortcuts explanations is awesome 👏 I completely got it now! Thanks a lot! 😊
Great presentation style, very watchable and good content. Well done
Hey. First off they way you explain this is so easy and i am easily able to stay focus on your lessons. (NOT AN ESAY TASK FOR ME, I HAVE EXTREME ADHD).
Most of this video I already know, however the way you explain this, i know the rest of the videos i am going to master the shortcuts app.
Anyway manythanks and I’m off to the next lesson
Love your work, thanks 🙏
Very interesting and informative. How about a video on creating and using Automations?
this is super helpful thank you!
I would like to say thank you. I like the way you present clearly, tasks which will help me as a pensioner to do things on my iPad and iPhone, tasks which I didn’t know about or didn’t know how to do. So my sincere thanks. Love and peace. Tim
I appreciate you giving us the heads up on the upcoming update
Hi Tom, by far the BEST and most CONCISE explanation o the Shortcuts APP! Thanks 🙏 G
Oh, God bless! I can understand you! Thank you for speaking clearly!
Thanks for another incredible video Tom. I am trying to use the Waze app in a new Shortcut but the app is excluded under my full list of apps. I prefer Waze over Maps as it is by far the most effective navigation app to use here in South Africa. I look forward to your response. Kindest regards.
Great tutorial... thank you. Much like Automator Apple Script, the issue with shortcuts is that you forget how to do the task(s) manually. People who rely on keyboard shortcuts can't tell you where to find the menus they're abbreviating and iOS shortcuts is similar. You get a real time saver, but it sort of dumbs down the experience. Also, when subsequent upgrades are released, you often have to edit or relearn as menus change or are moved. Rockin' it old school is always better.
Very informative video. You made me understand this app so much. I look forward to other shortcut videos. Well done.
I really like the way you are explained looking forward to learn more about shortcut app in the future and I subscribed your channel as well
thank you for this useful video!
Honestly a genius tutorial. Thanks a lot for sharing.
I was recently lamenting the 'loss' of AppleScript but now I see it's not gone at all. They simply made it better. Thanks! (Yes, I'm old)
I really like this shortcut introduction course. I cannot find other videos on shortcut subjects. I thought you were doing series of shortcut videos?