Manon, unfortunately I have used the shortcuts app very little. I believe the 100% battery notification was a shortcut from somebody else I used at one point a couple of years ago, I am not longer using it and can't remember what exactly I did. I know some others on the list are more into making shortcuts so hopefully somebody else can help you. I don't want this to sound like an excuse, but I really would have to dig into this myself and invest a few hours trying to figure out all one can do, probably read some articles or listen to YouTube videos from people showing how to do this and I just don't have time for that between now and the new year. I own a retail business and between a lot of order deadlines for next year, Black Friday and the Christmas business and trying to take a little time for one of my hobbies which is baking and cooking, there is not much time left for anything else right now. Oh yes, I forgot to mention snow shoveling which my wife and I will have to do shortly as we had 3 or so inches overnight, not a lot, but more is in the forecast and if you get behind it's can make it a lot more difficult especially when it's nice and fluffy snow as it is this morning and then you think it can wait and next thing it gets warmer and it all becomes heavy or even turns into ice.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Manan Trivedi Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 8:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Shortcut related Thanks Sieghard, that’s very helpful. I didn’t know you could create a shortcut to alert you about battery charge reaching 100 %. Can you please share the steps for creating that shortcut? I also want help with automation such as I want my iphone to play NPR radio station using apple music without prompting at 8 AM. It is possible to create such routines on Alexa just by speaking to it. To create the routine. I am sure it is possible to do it with the iphone. I want to do it on my Iphone SE 2nd generation. I will appreciate if you can share the steps for creating such an automated shortcut. MT Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 25, 2025, at 10:36 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Shortcuts can be quite powerful since you can create a shortcut which does > 10 different things. There is a Shortcuts app and there are many shortcuts in > a Gallery which are shortcuts others have created and made available. For > example, I once came across a shortcut which was riggered by the phrase "I'm > getting pulled over" so if you said that to Siri, it would start a video > recording and at the same time send a message to people you specified should > receive it. > There are also the shortcuts from apps which offer them, one example is > Seeing AI. If you open the Seeing AI app and tap on the menu at the top left, > then Settings > Configure Siri Shortcuts, you can specify phrases which start > the various functions of Seeing AI. > Once you go into that option, it will say "Select the activity with which you > want to use the Siri shortcut". > If you swipe right you have: > Read > Describe > Recognize World > Recognize Person > Recognize Products > Recognize Light > Recognize Currency > Recognize Colour > Find My Things > Recognize New Person > Browse Photos > Recognize Documents > Underneath all of this is the following explanation: > Assign phrases to each activity to access it from Siri. You may choose custom > phrases such as "What does this say" to recognize short text or "How much is > this" to recognize currency. > Of course you could enter whichever phrase you want, for example, if you had > trained Seeing AI to recognize certain people, you could set the phrase to be > "Whose ugly mug is this" or for currency you could set it to be "Hey baby, > what type of dough is this". > This is a simple application of Siri shortcuts, if you use the shortcuts app > you can create a shortcut which opens a certain app and then does things and > you can then assign a phrase just as in the example above to rigger the > shortcut. > You could also set a shortcut which isn't triggered by a phrase at all, for > example, you could make a shortcut which would play a tone or jingle when > your iPhone's charge reaches 100% or you could make one which says > "Flashlight is now on" when you turn on the iPhone's flashlight. Shortcuts > can be super simple and very complicated. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Carolyn Arnold > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 5:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Shortcut related > > I haven't experienced any of that. If I put something in the oven, I say, Hay > Siri, set timer for an hour, like today with dressing, then Hay Siri, set > timer for 30 minutes for it to brown with foil removed. > > Carolyn Arnold > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Manan Trivedi > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 1:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Shortcut related > > Dear all. > > Sometimes I get suggestion regarding shortcut on my iphone. For instance, > sometimes the notification would say “shortcut, set timer for 10 minutes” I > assume it will set a timer if I double tap it. Can i do anything else with > it? 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