Automation bug?

[Bokka]

Hello everyone!

I ask you one thing: I have created an automation with which when I leave work it deactivates the wifi while I am in the car and when I get home it activates it again. However, checking I see that the phone tells me that the automation has started, but I see the Wifi always active. That you know is a bug or something wanted?

Also I ask you one more thing: I follow a news podcast that posts an update every hour. I would like to create a command kidnapped with SIRI with which when I go to call it back, it makes me listen to the latest published episode of this podcast.

I tried to create one myself, but often it doesn't work with an unknown error or at most it makes me listen to an episode from the day before. Maybe I'm wrong to create this command, but if anyone has any idea how I can go about creating it could you help me?


A thousand thanks!

 

[Slartibart]

can you show us what you have for both cases so far?

 

[Bokka]

Perhaps I solved it with the Podcast speech, I have to do some more tests, but I would say that it works now.
The workflow is as follows:



As for the location-based wifi deactivation, I still don't understand why it doesn't work:







Also: Is there a chance that once I launch a shortcut it won't be notified?

 

[Slartibart]

Are you running the beta of iOS/iPadOS 16.3? The automation works when you run it within Shortcuts I assume? You allowed location services when Shortcuts is running? Please check the geofence radius.

 

[Bokka]

I use iOS version 16.2, I don't use beta versions. Location Services is set to "When in use" in settings.
I also checked the radius and it's fine, it reaches the parking lot at most, then it should deactivate itself. Honestly, I haven't tried running automation in shortcuts, being an automation I'd say it should start on its own.

 

[NoBoMac]

Location Automations, it really didn't run. You are seeing the "Allow to run" message and need to tap the notification and on "Run" to actually run.

Location based Automations do not run automatically. Time based ones do as well as location triggered Focus Automations.

Attached is an example for "When connects to wifi": it too does not automatically run unless Run it tapped.

ADD: if you don't see a "Ask Before Running" option when creating an Automation, you will always get the prompt/notification asking if you want to run the Automation.

 

[Bokka]

Thanks a lot for the explanation. But I don't understand the sense of having to confirm an action when this should be automatic.
I hope this possibility will be offered with IOS 17, although I have some doubts about it...

 

[NoBoMac]

I can see why Apple decided to do it like they did. For example, come home at 2:00am and have stuff like lights, HomePods, etc turning on and going full blast. At the edge of a geo-fence and the Automation thinks you left, don't want stuff turning off.

But totally a left hand not knowing right hand is doing situation on the iOS team: location based Focuses run automatically and in turn can run an Automation automatically.

Apple just needs to add the "Ask Before Running" to all Automations and let people mess-up on their own and can always enable the option when they do run into the oops moment(s).