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bigboy29

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May 19, 2016
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I created two shortcuts last night and trained Siri. Pretty much the only time I want to talk to my phone is when I'm on Bluetooth. So - both fail to work under lock screen (when in a car, for example). Here is what happens:

- I invoke Siri using Siri Eyes Free
- I say the phrase
- Siri says "Running your shortcut"
- Siri then says "You will have to unlock your phone to do this" (or similar)

Confused?

Shortcut 1: is pretty much vanilla "share location" - so grab a location, convert it into Maps URL and send a message to someone with location attached. I want to be prompted for a contact to send the message too (using voice).

Shortcut 2: "launch podcast" - but I use a 3rd party podcast app. This one I can understand I guess the app needs to support shortcuts maybe so this can be executed?

More generic question is: should shortcuts work under lock screen?
 
I am almost certain that this behavior is new with the release version of Shortcuts. Quite certain I was able to trigger Shortcuts even from behind the lockscreen with the beta builds. I would trigger one from the car when I am heading home from travels and I did not unlock the phone before doing this.
 
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