Apps Introducing Support for Siri Shortcuts and Other iOS 12 Features

[Tech198]

Useless if you don't talk to your *iPhone, downloaded it and removed it within 5 minutes.

*=Siri... Not actually the iPhone, it's a phone, everyone talks to his/her phone while calling/getting a call.

I don't talk to my phone now... Humans are much better at having conversations with.

 

[chucker23n1]

This is exactly (well, pretty close) to what I was hoping for/expecting from Shortcuts. But... in the shortcuts app, there's no sign of any integration with HomeKit!? Am I missing something, or did Apple miss a BIG trick here? I guess you can kinda do some of this within HomeKit already, but only specifically for HomeKit enabled items (e.g. "Good Night" to switch off a bunch of stuff), but I was really hoping for something a little more complex like you've listed here.

Surely, this would have been an ideal use of this feature?

Anyone with me, and with chfilm, obviously?

I don't have beddit or Sonos, but:

I want this:
“Hey Siri, I’m going to bed”.
-> turn off all lights except the one in the bedroom at 30%, starting a dimming countdown of 20 minutes.
-> start a playlist “meditation” at Sonos, with a sleep timer to 15 minutes.
-> launch beddit sleep tracking
-> put the phone into DND mode till 8a

I think the first can be done by first creating a scene in the Home app, then adding that scene to the workflow? (I think you'd need a HomeKit hub for the dimming countdown to work?)

The fourth does seem to be easily doable. The second and third are kind of up to third parties.

However, what apparently cannot be done is general scheduling, e.g. running a workflow every day at a certain time.

 

[ipedro]

Give me Dominos/Papa Johns/Pizza Hut so I can order pizza from my HomePod! And Uber Eats!

Omg bad bad baaaad idea.
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Things! I still don’t know how to use this app as it makes me feel like an idiot!!

CulturedCode has a really good tutorial.
https://culturedcode.com/things/guide/

Essentially, it works on the “Getting Things Done” system by David Allen. There’s a famous book and audiobook that details the system.

In a nutshell:

1. Get things you need to do, out of your head as soon as you remember them and into an Inbox.
2. Every morning, go through your inbox and put to do’s either in your Today folder or schedule things to be done on a different day.
3. Try to keep your inbox empty if you can. Add deadlines to things that have deadlines. The goal is to not worry that you’re forgetting something that you need to do. Having confidence that all your To Do’s are in your system is a major part of that.

Things provides some extra niceties like creating projects with lots of to dos inside of them, or checklists which are smaller parts of a To Do. But get started with the basics and I guarantee you will be glad you did.

 

[jlwarlow]

I was really looking forward to this in iOS 12 after seeing the demo.

So far disappointed.

I have a heading home shortcut which texts my wife my ETA, starts playing my "Car" playlist and get's me directions to home. What I can't get it to do is to actually start the navigation. It shows directions, but I have to hit Go manually which defeats the point of a shortcut. I want to be able to say "Siri, heading home" and have not have to touch my phone.
ong?) then completes. Checking the health app there's no data for caffeine.

I just watched the Keynote section showing shortcuts and they have navigation in the demo. Either they hit GO which isn't obvious or it should start navigating once the shortcut runs, which indicates a bug. I'm heading to https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ and raising a bug, see if it's a dupe.