Has anyone found a reliable way to backup Personal Automations on the iPhone? It is a pain to have to recreate all of them from scratch anytime the phone is restored.
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Any way to backup Personal Automations on iPhone?
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What @hg.wells said. And the caveat is that cannot sync to a different device, so guess that wipe/re-install cycle should retain Automations, new phone, not.
And as @RichT49 mentioned, restore from backup works as well (iirc, been a year+ since I setup a new phone).
How I make this a little easier is that my Automations tend to be one Action, Run Shortcut, which calls a Shortcut with the real work/steps. In addition to making it easier to re-store/re-create, also helps facilitate Automations that happen on regular intervals during the day (eg. every two hours) as there is no "Starting at time hh:mm and then every X hours/minutes" Automation. And code re-use, easier maintenance/modifications.
Intro to personal automation in Shortcuts on iPhone or iPad
In Shortcuts, create a personal automation.
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And as @RichT49 mentioned, restore from backup works as well (iirc, been a year+ since I setup a new phone).
How I make this a little easier is that my Automations tend to be one Action, Run Shortcut, which calls a Shortcut with the real work/steps. In addition to making it easier to re-store/re-create, also helps facilitate Automations that happen on regular intervals during the day (eg. every two hours) as there is no "Starting at time hh:mm and then every X hours/minutes" Automation. And code re-use, easier maintenance/modifications.