Five Useful Siri Shortcuts for iOS 12

[trifid]

Calculating tips, saving to gif, sure they are useful, but it's not the cutting edge AI evolution we need from Siri, Siri is stuck in the stone age unfortunately.

And most people won't know or care about setting up custom shortcuts from reddit, perhaps only 1% of iPhone users.

 

[mazz0]

Waitwhat - is 12% now the minimum acceptable tip amount? FFS, why can’t you just pay people properly?

 

[iLoveiTunes]

My favorite two shortcuts on my iPhone:


-Saying “Let her know” where the shortcut gets my location, calculates the eta to my house and the time of arrival, and sends it in a text to my wife...extremely useful when I’m on the road (made it myself)


-YouTube downloader....self explanatory (found on reddit)

Can you share the first one please ?

Edit - Never-mind it's there in Apple library so I went with that one. Called Home ETA

 

[err404]

I surprised that they didn’t have some common things like voice commands for Google, Waze or Spotify. I have these all setup and working well for CarPlay.

 

[The_Grifter]

Waitwhat - is 12% now the minimum acceptable tip amount? FFS, why can’t you just pay people properly?

No, 20% is the minimum people should be tipping. Because as much as we like to cheerlead for a $12 or $15 or $20 minimum wage, service staff will forever be stuck at two or three bucks an hour. No increases for them. Tips have become more important, not less, in America, for people that find themselves in service work.

 

[Scottsoapbox]

Maybe I'm missing something, but to calculate a tip I simply ask Siri "what's the tip for $xxx?" and I get 15%, 18% and 20% results.

I just do math *with my mind*.

 

[Brentleeper]

While some here may find these shortcuts useful, I don't see any real use for them. It appears to be geared toward the younger user. A lot of the cited examples can be done manually a lot quicker than invoking the Siri shortcut, in my opinion.

To me, the real power is the ability to run a script over SSH just with a Siri command. A lot of people don’t realize this as an option.

 

[tgara]

Calculate Tip is useless. For one, it's including sales tax, instead of asking for the pre-tax subtotal, and two, it has no rounding function, are you really going to leave a $9.71 tip?

I can calculate 15-20% in my head and add it to the total much faster than even Siri can do it. I guess kids these days can’t do math....

 

[Apple_Robert]

To me, the real power is the ability to run a script over SSH just with a Siri command. A lot of people don’t realize this as an option.
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Count me as one that didn't know that either, even though I have been following the Siri Shortcuts thread.

 

[maconme]

Can shortcuts be setup to use apps like Waze and iHeart Radio?

 

[tgara]

Can shortcuts be setup to use apps like Waze and iHeart Radio?

If the apps permit it, yes.

 

[maconme]

Where can I find a list of apps that support Shortcuts?

 

[otozuz]

I just do math *with my mind*.

I’ve always sucked at math

 

[err404]

Can shortcuts be setup to use apps like Waze and iHeart Radio?

Yes. Just google the script. It is more complex than you may think.

 

[jeremiah256]

Can shortcuts be setup to use apps like Waze and iHeart Radio?

It looks like the Shortcuts app will be the way to get around having to use Apple's default apps for many things. Downside is you have to hope the app creator provides the ability.

 

[trifid]

It looks like the Shortcuts app will be the way to get around having to use Apple's default apps for many things. Downside is you have to hope the app creator provides the ability.

Seeing this article showing Shortcuts to change default weather app is a bit lame to be honest, we have 10 years of iPhone and Apple's stubbornness with default apps is embarrassing.

 

[err404]

It looks like the Shortcuts app will be the way to get around having to use Apple's default apps for many things. Downside is you have to hope the app creator provides the ability.

Not entirely true. Spotify for example works as a dynamic shortcut even though it has no baked in support.

 

[ignatius345]

Calculate Tip is useless. For one, it's including sales tax, instead of asking for the pre-tax subtotal, and two, it has no rounding function, are you really going to leave a $9.71 tip?

Also, how hard is it to figure 20% in your head? Take the pre-tax total, move the decimal one place to the left and then double it. Alternately, just double the tax (~9% where I live) and round up.
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Waitwhat - is 12% now the minimum acceptable tip amount? FFS, why can’t you just pay people properly?

It's not. I think 15% is a sh*tty tip, and 20% is a good tip.
That said, having just come back from Europe I did not miss tipping one bit while on over there.

 

[diegogaja]

I wouldn’t consider myself part of the youth full crowd. LOL

I have several that I have built from searching on the web that are quite useful. Many of the examples that we see so far are very simple one or two action combinations. I have one that I’ve built based upon something I saw online. I tell Siri Heading to Work and she tells me what my ETA is, tells me what the weather is, tells me the first event on my calendar, opens Apple maps, and plays a pre-specified playlist.

I have a similar one for heading home, two other ones for taking off and landing when I’m traveling, and one for my workouts starting and finishing. I also have one for the first thing in the morning the tells me my schedule.

When I have time I want to dig deeper into what I can do because I believe there is a lot of potential in this app When it comes to automation. I feel like we’ve only started scratching the surface.

Also I think that some sort of short cuts class or instruction app would be awesome. All of the examples within the app are very basic and with Mentry, but you can literally build dozens of actions into a single shortcut.

While some here may find these shortcuts useful, I don't see any real use for them. It appears to be geared toward the younger user. A lot of the cited examples can be done manually a lot quicker than invoking the Siri shortcut, in my opinion.

[doublepost=1538534640][/doublepost]That’s why there is a gallery. I think the shortcuts are in their infancy. There are lost of people making good ones that will hopefully showing up in the gallery soon.

(They ones they have are rudimentary and can be done with sori via voice Simmons already)

Calculating tips, saving to gif, sure they are useful, but it's not the cutting edge AI evolution we need from Siri, Siri is stuck in the stone age unfortunately.

And most people won't know or care about setting up custom shortcuts from reddit, perhaps only 1% of iPhone users.

 

[trip1ex]

Maybe I'm missing something, but to calculate a tip I simply ask Siri "what's the tip for $xxx?" and I get 15%, 18% and 20% results.

Yeah you’re missing something because it is drop dead easy to calculate a 10% tip in your head and from there get 20% or 15% by doubling it or halving it and adding it back in. It is 2+2=4 math.
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Calculating tips, saving to gif, sure they are useful, but it's not the cutting edge AI evolution we need from Siri, Siri is stuck in the stone age unfortunately.

And most people won't know or care about setting up custom shortcuts from reddit, perhaps only 1% of iPhone users.

Yeah I found all these shortcuts useless lol.

 

[dannynjoni]

Siri is stuck in the stone age unfortunately.

That's just funny to me lol.

 

[tubomac]

"Calculate tip" haha Americans...

Yes! lets make customers responsible for companies workers who can pay them with some charity donations. Would be right to extend this system for any job, wouldn't it?

 

[rjtyork]

I can calculate 15-20% in my head and add it to the total much faster than even Siri can do it. I guess kids these days can’t do math....

Omg I thought I was the only one! My wife thought it was so weird that I’m able to do it in my head and she even checked me on her calculator a few times. totally useless shortcut for me. My favorite that I’ve discovered has been this one:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2d68cb1ee7b84f08ace2fd600b9855b5

Just by saying “Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over”, Siri will pause your music, turn on do not disturb, send your location and a message to pre-determined contacts, dim your screen, start recording video from your front camera, upload that video to iCloud Drive or google drive, and send the video to any contacts you choose. Extremely handy and a great tool to make sure guys in costumes behave themselves when they decide to violate your right to free travel without being molested.

 

[otozuz]

Yeah you’re missing something because it is drop dead easy to calculate a 10% tip in your head and from there get 20% or 15% by doubling it or halving it and adding it back in. It is 2+2=4 math.

Now why did you have to reply like that? Pretty rude, and not sure why. My post wasn't sarcastic. Chill out dude.

 

[dysamoria]

I can calculate 15-20% in my head and add it to the total much faster than even Siri can do it. I guess kids these days can’t do math....

I have dyscalculia/dyslexia. From the first day of owning a Palm Pilot in 2001, I determined that these devices are assistive technology for people like me.