iOS 14.0.1 - Is automation terrible for anyone else?

[MalcolmJID]

Morning all

I've got 14.0.1 on a XS. I have 4 automation tasks to change my Apple Watch face. They're nothing fancy, all based on a time and day (07:30 on weekdays, for example), yet I'm finding they work only about 20% of the time. By not work, I mean they don't even get triggered at all! They're all set to run without asking, and when they do run, I get the little notification from the Shortcuts app that it's run, and the Watch face obviously changes. But otherwise, no notification, and no watch face change. My phone is next to my Watch every time it's due to trigger, but it still doesn't trigger! I've recreated them, restarted phone and watch, and the behaviour doesn't change.

Has anyone else had the same experience? I would not have expected something as simple as a time trigger to not work in 2020.

 

[wa2be]

I'm having similar issues with automations. I have a couple that are supposed to trigger at a set time to open a file in the Notes app. That time comes and goes each day without the automation firing. I've tried recreating them, turning off/on the "Enable" button in the automation, etc. Seems like Apple doesn't really have this feature sorted out yet and it needs some work.

 

[Bart Les]

Hi I have the same problem with turning on WiFi and Cellular every morning. Automation is not working. When I set the on and off to check with an interval of about 10 minutes, everything is OK. But when I want Wi-Fi to turn off in the evening - it's OK and it turned on in the morning, it doesn't work anymore.
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I have iPhone Xs with iOS 14.0.1

 

[JulianL]

For what it's worth I have the same problem. I have 4 personal automations set up, a pair of location-based ones to remind me to change an app setting when I leave and return to my home and a pair of time-based ones to switch Airplane mode on at 11:00pm and switch it off again at 9:00am. Curiously my more complicated location-based shortcuts work but what I would have thought are the simpler time-of-day ones are totally erratic. One or other of them occasionally fires, maybe once a week, but then for another week they both totally fail to fire. I mean seriously Apple, how complicated can it be to get a simple time-of-day trigger working properly?

I'm just putting up with it for a while because I intend to get a new 12 Pro Max next Friday, assuming I get in quickly enough when orders open to get a release-day delivery, so maybe that will fix my issue but it doesn't inspire much confidence in Apple's software engineering team. They do seem to have trouble with seemingly simple time stuff. I remember a few years ago there was a bug when all programmed alarms stopped working after the clocks went back which was bad enough but then to make matters worse it took Apple two attempts to fix it because the first fix they pushed out didn't solve the problem.

 

[Hyloba]

Same, I have an automation running at 10 and 11 pm, changing the color of my Hue lights, and some days it works, others it doesn't. Have yet to find an explanation.

 

[JulianL]

I'm hoping that my problem will simply go away when I set up my new iPhone. I always set up my new phones from scratch rather than from a backup which makes me a bit more hopeful that I will get a good result but we'll see. I'm still left perplexed (and annoyed) that such a seemingly simple thing is so erratic. Alarms and timed reminders go off OK so why on earth not simple timed shortcuts? Very odd.

 

[ikir]

I had problems with Home app automation since a year. Turn off after X minutes doesn't work may times.