What Are Your Favorite IOS 12 Shortcuts?
If you haven’t installed iOS 12 yet, what are you waiting for? Back up your device – because you can never be too sure – and install a new version of the operating system to take advantage of all the performance improvements and new features that Apple has prepared.
Among them, Apple’s new Shortcuts app is perhaps one of the best reasons to install iOS 12. While it may seem a little complicated at first, the Workflow replacement app that Apple acquired in 2017 allows you to chain apps and behaviors together. For example, you can create a “Oh, Home” shortcut that guides you to your home and automatically sends a text message to your roommate or spouse indicating the travel time.
Even though iOS 12 officially came out just one day, we want to hear all the helpful shortcuts you’ve created or found. Leave your best examples in the comments below and we’ll present the best shortcuts you come up with in our next post.
To get you started, here are some fun examples from the Internet:
- Making a list of frequently visited places
If you always need directions to several key places – home, to work, to your favorite ice cream place, and so on – you can create a “List” of these places in shortcuts. Add the Show Directions feature below to send whatever you tap to your favorite mapping app (like Apple Maps or Google Maps), which automatically picks directions to that location, wherever you are.
Lumos! Knox! You’re a wizard now, Harry!
This useful shortcut allows you to select a person in the Contacts application. When you do, it will then calculate the travel time to their home (whatever you specified) and automatically send them a text message indicating the time it will take you to get there.
This sleepy Reddit user came up with a shortcut that gives you a list of times to sleep and then sets up Do Not Disturb (and always an important timer) as you take a quick trip to dreamland.
If you really want to disable your device’s Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection and not just break what your device is currently connected to, try using shortcuts. Here’s one for Wi-Fi , and here’s one for Bluetooth .