question. I don't know anything about the shortcuts app. is it on the iPad? mine's an old iPad mini that I can't update any more. can I do it on that?
> On Jan 27, 2019, at 12:31 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > How to make Shortcuts give you a weather forecast on iPad > By Charlie Sorrel, 1:00 pm, January 25, 2019 > > Life's a beach - without this iPad weather shortcut. > > The iPad infamously still lacks a built-in weather app. There are plenty of > ways around this - you can ask Siri, you can use the Maps app to see the > weather anywhere, or you can wait for your iPhone to give you a lock-screen > forecast every morning. > Today we add a new method. We'll make a quick shortcut that gets the weather > at your current location, and displays it as a notification. > > How to build a custom weather shortcut > > The weather outside is frightful. > > This is a fun shortcut to build, because it lets you add all kinds of info > to your weather forecast, almost without effort. To begin, launch the > Shortcuts app and tap the button to create a new shortcut. > Then, in the left-hand column, type "weather" in the search bar. This will > show you all the actions that work with weather. The one we're interested in > is Get Current Weather. This is built into the Shortcuts app. Tap to add it > to the workflow panel (the section on the right). Make sure it's set to get > weather at the current location. You can also set a fixed location if you > prefer. > On-demand custom weather forecast > Then, add the Show Notification action. This is where the fun starts. Tap > inside this action, and the keyboard pops up. You can type anything in > there, but you can also add variables. In this case, we want to add the > results of the weather. To do so, tap the little Weather Conditions widget > above the keyboard. It gets pasted into the notification's body. > Choose from a long list of weather data types. > > Then, tap on this newly pasted widget, and you'll see a list of available > info - location, precipitation chance, high and low temperatures, humidity > and lots more. By adding more of these little widgets, you can build a > custom weather notification. My version shows the current conditions. You > can also choose to build a forecast by using the weather forecast action > instead of the current weather action. > To activate this forecast, you can run it from inside the Shortcuts app > (lame), or run it by tapping its widget in the Shortcuts section on the > Today View (cool). And of course, it works just as well on the iPhone as on > the iPad. > > Follow Cult of Mac's How-To Channel > > Original Article at: > https://www.cultofmac.com/602204/shortcuts-ipad-weather-forecast/ > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
