Thankyou so much. I've seen plenty of other videos to create shortcuts but they are all very technical and needs a good programming mindset whereas your one is very easy to follow through. We would appreciate if you made more of these iOS automation videos in this simplest way, thankyou

Thank you! My first shortcut and how to do the time part was exactly what I needed

Thank you so much for posting this! It was really helpful and it was something I felt like I could actually understand 😊

Thank you. Great walk through!! Appreciate it!!!

Thank you this was very helpful!!

THANK YOU!! I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a long time!

I love you and this is exactly what I needed to finish my shortcut! Thank you!

Thanks for the video! I’m new to iPhone but so far I’m loving it, especially the shortcuts.

It is very helpful. Thank you for this short but educating video!

Dude! I needed this! Thanks so much!

Damn, I wish every tutorial was like this one! Simple, Clear and straight to the point!

@GTx11

8 ай бұрын

Dude I spent 20 minutes for this and the end is all I needed for my shortcut, I just needed 20 seconds of that video

This is exactly the video I was looking for. Thank you!

Thank you! I finally got it to work!!

Excellent video and explanation! I've been looking for learning this for a really long time. Thank you so much!

Awsome Thanks 🙏 😊

great explanation, thank you so much ;)

Great! Thanks so much!

This is awesome! I just started experimenting with shortcuts and automation today and got stuck. Thank you for this video! The information and details are right on point!

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful!

No tutorial yet showed me the trick with only HH time format! You saved me! Thanks a lot 😊

Thank you! I now have an automation that chooses my car-playlists depending on time of day.

i cant thank you enough.. I've been searching for this solution two days in a row. Awesome tutorial

@neverenoughtech

8 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

Nice! I’m trying to make it so light and dark mode happen during certain times of the day

“Quick look! “ more of these, PLEASE.

Loved it! Wonderful video! I’m making an automation for when I close my morning pages app my planning shortcut runs. Couldn’t figure it out how to do it in the morning ONLY. Thanks for this! 🙂

@neverenoughtech

10 ай бұрын

Glad it helped - thanks for sharing

These comments are so useful! Thanks for your video and detailed, easy answers. I too was going nuts trying to only trigger from 10pm to 7am, but just had to realize that NOT(8am to 9pm) is the same. Boom. Thank you.

@neverenoughtech

10 ай бұрын

👊

Thanks so much. I just subscribed

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks

Well done. Thanks so much. This ia way too complicated for layman. I dont understand why cant Apple make it easier (maybe just allow an 'if' time period on automation). Anyway you are a life saver, thanks again.

thankyou i made an automation for camera apps with this knowledge

@neverenoughtech

10 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

Very well explained.

@neverenoughtech

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

This was definitely helpful. Thank you! I was trying to run automation when device reaches 80% 🔋 charge, give a loud notification to stop charging, if it’s not past my bed time.

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

I know this video has a small audience. Really glad you found it! 👍😎

Short and sweet indeed! I’m making an automation to play a podcast automatically during my daily commute, so I needed to specify it to run only during the times that I actually get in my car to go to and from work. This is great, now I just need a way to specify only during the weekdays as well and everything will be perfect.

@3sixtybubba133

Жыл бұрын

Try clicking repeat weekly instead of daily when making the automation

@yankeh

11 ай бұрын

You can trigger based on leaving a location instead of based on time!

Ty ty ty!!!

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

I discussed a much simpler and robust way to deal with time in the linked video. Same idea only trigger when in a certain time frame but supports minutes and time frames that support multiple days - may be of interest in the future iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html

Most appreciated. I have ADHD and after a few semi huge issues at work I figured out a system that has proven to return an acceptable amount of error. If that makes sense. Now I’m looking to use shortcuts to do it.

@neverenoughtech

10 ай бұрын

I have ADD … automations can be helpful

, do you have a shortcut to call a conference number and have the iPhone automatic switch the speaker phone on without me doing it. I can’t figure this out. Thanks

Thank you so much!! I just moved over from android and they have a feature to only turn on “sleep focus” after (a time) when you plug your phone to charge. It was a huge bummer iOS didn’t have it till I found shortcuts. Then I had no idea what I was doing… thank you for the help!!

@neverenoughtech

9 ай бұрын

iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html I actually handle time much more elegantly here but glad you got it figured out

I didn’t see your bit about if after 12am it won’t do anything ? I might be being stupid 😂

@aaronemptage1448

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t either but thinking about it the input of greater than 21 as when it hits 12 is 00 so is no longer greater than 21

Hi! :) If you want to add the minute as well, do you type for example 20,30?

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

www.icloud.com/shortcuts/52a4c957850d442facec9eeaad0d9017 This is a clunky way to get minutes

How the setting in ios 12?

I want my couch light to turn on only when I am already home between 8pm and 12am, but not have it triggered only by my arrival. I want it to detect I’m already here but not have to use a timer automation like I do for my hallway lamp that runs regardless of my location. Does that make sense? I hope I’m describing it clearly 🥴

Hi really inspiring video. I have an automation where my lights turn on when I arrive home however this turns on whenever I arrive home. I am trying to restrict the automation to after sunset and before sunrise only but cannot find a way at all. Do you know if there is a way?

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

I recommend watching how I manage time conditionals across the 12:00am threshold in this video. It’s more flexible than what I presented in the video you commented on iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html

great video man. quick question. when u enter the time of 21 how does the shortcut know its between the hours of 10pm to 12am. i’m trying something similar but with a smart plug that turns on my kettle between 4am and 7am thats the only part that has me confused. i’m new to this but yes making shortcuts are fun

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

@jase0 Wouldn’t let me share the shortcut so I provided an iCloud link to the code share.icloud.com/photos/0Wbt_hJ230yDn-lRnMmHrkcug

@jayse0

3 жыл бұрын

@@neverenoughtech thanks mate appreciate it

Thanks for watching. Let me know if you have other shortcut ideas you might need help with. I like creating (hopefully) helpful - evergreen content

Thanks for the video this helped out a lot. However for some reason it’s not working. Instead of opening an app I’m trying to make it turn off my hue lights when I plug in my phone to go to bed. Any help would be appreciated

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Have to go through automations, pick your trigger, and type in home and select control x - rest you are promoted

Hello. Is there anyway to create a time delay between actions. I’m thinking in something happen now and 20 sec later another thing. Thanks

@neverenoughtech

9 ай бұрын

Use the [wait] function

@nunorleal

9 ай бұрын

@@neverenoughtech that’s it. Thank you.

Hey great tutorial, if I wanted it to do a action at 5:45am how do I input that number into the if script?

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Can still use automations but use the time of day trigger. Much more straight forward.

@phillipallen9836

3 жыл бұрын

Well I want to use this configuration in a similar way within a sequence I’m building which is triggered by my alarm clock via personal automation.

It seems that this trick is not working anymore because there is some error notification when you delete the custom date and write only "HH".

@neverenoughtech

4 күн бұрын

I handle time much more elegantly in this video. I suggest you check it out iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html

Man its so hard but im soo interested i want to learn

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

I think if you practice a bit you’ll quickly find its not so intimidating. I have no formal background in this stuff/coding. I just learned a few principals and tried to get better by having fun with it

@yoaimou9798

Жыл бұрын

@@neverenoughtech ok but can you recommend some channels or something that helped you to learn.? or can i ask you about some mysterious things to me?

Hey! Great tutorial, it almost does what I've been trying to achieve myself. I'm trying to an app to start in the same conditions, but I'm trying to set a time frame between 21:00 and 7:00 and I have no idea how to do that. So the script would be: if phone charging and current time is between 21:00 and 7:00, then start X app. Any suggestions on how I could achieve that? I've tried using various methods, nothing seemed to work :(

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

You would use your in between condition option (instead of greater than) and you would put between 7 and 21. But instead of putting the action right under the If, you would put it under otherwise - so if not between 7 and 21 do x action. Let me know if that doesn’t make sense. Good luck!

@digsfbv

3 жыл бұрын

Ok I finally understood it and it works great. Thanks a lot, it's a weird thing to wrap your head around! :)

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

My initial example was going to be how to do a span that passes through the 00 hour but the felt it was just too convoluted for a first lesson. Glad you were able to get it to work.

@_Bogdan_

3 жыл бұрын

NeverEnoughTech Thank you for the nice video but i cant get this to work 🙁 I have an shortcut automation when i plug 🔌 in my device, then play a sound but I don’t want it to run between 21 and 6. I dit what you said but can’t get it to work 🙁

@NoXs4u

3 жыл бұрын

@@neverenoughtech Was looking for this. Thanks a LOT!!! Had a 3hr struggle (relative date/time and so on) and couldn't get it to work. This "otherwise" approach did the trick. Like digsfbv states; it's a weird thing to wrap your head around.

In my case I want to Trigger another Shortcut when there is Sunset at my current Location. How do I do this?

@neverenoughtech

Ай бұрын

Go to automations -> time of day -> select sunset and then in the code space drag in Run and then select the shortcut you want. You’ll need to decide if you want it to run automatically. I’m not sure how location dependent sunset is … a good clue is if it asks for location privileges … other wise you would need to put in some of your own location logic to adjust the time

It seems Shortcuts doesn’t allow the shortened time format now - error message appears when using HH

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html Much better time management advice on this video

I know this was posted a year ago but I am asking for help. When I launch the quick look after following step by step, it doesn’t display the hour is just says that nothing could be found. I’ve followed the instructions exactly. I’m using iOS 15.3.1

@aritradhabal

2 жыл бұрын

Yes can confirm this doesn’t work now

Hi I am trying to create an iPhone short cuts app action, whenever the chosen app is opened between Time A and time B each day, it will automatically go to home screen then lock screen. Do you know how? Thanks

@neverenoughtech

9 ай бұрын

I do. The first thing you will want to do is find and watch my latest Automation video kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html I handle time management much more simply. This shortcut fires an action only at a certain time (between various minutes in the day where 1:00AM would be 60) based on a trigger ... in the video it is based on the phone charging and being removed from a charger. The only thing you will change will be the automation trigger which would be "App" (when a specified app is opened or closed) also specify the app when prompted... use the same instructions I have in the video, change the minute parameters to meet your needs. If the exclusionary time period occurs past 12:00AM you will want to put the end time minutes where I have the 420 (7:00am) and the start time minutes 1290 (9:30 pm). If the time period occurs within the same day put the start minutes first and the end minutes last. In first case (past 12:00 AM) you will just need to search for "Lock Screen" and drag that action under Otherwise. In the Second Case (single day) you will want to drag the "Lock Screen" function under the If statement That should do it. Hope you are successful

@eos30me

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, that was exactly what I was looking for, works perfectly, and I kept adjusting it so I could get the hang of it and can now set a new one up quite quickly. Excellent.

@eos30me

8 ай бұрын

One more thing, I have tried to add a second time between to one, how do I get it to use two time between?

Men great video. But How can I create a shortcut, so that when I call Siri and say the word Goodnight, Siri plays selected music on the Homepod, with a 45 min timer. and after 45 turns off?

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm. A HomePod is like the one Apple thing I don’t have. I don’t have time to get it worked out all right now ... implementing the best solution for a delay - just hacky ideas are coming to me immediately like setting a loop that does a command after 45 mins . Sounds like a good video idea in general. I’ll let you know if I get any bright ideas

@zycloft

3 жыл бұрын

NeverEnoughTech You know the only problem that I found when configuring a shortcut for the homepod, was the timer, since it only sounds an alarm, I cannot make the music stop. but I'll be attentive to your videos

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

It’s actually easy ... set playback destination as first action (Airplay function), play content, put a “wait” function in. Set to 2700 seconds (kind of annoying have to just hold plus counter), then put a play/pause function in and select pause. Set the shortcut to night music or whatever

I’m trying to do something similar. I want Siri to read me all of my calendar events and reminders for the day every morning when I leave for work and plug my phone into CarPlay. I set it up the way you so here but the time I set seems to be irrelevant. It runs the automation regardless.

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

I have a much better time solution in this video … iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html

Hi how do I make an automation only run on weekdays?

@neverenoughtech

6 ай бұрын

You would add an if statement to the code and it would say something like if day of the week does not start with S. I don’t have time at the moment to spell it out more than that though I think you may be able to figure it out from instruction in the video

@neverenoughtech

6 ай бұрын

So get a formatted date and just write capital E as the format. That will be your day. Then use split text to split up the string you get (ex Sat) and specify spot by character. Then look for get item from list and specify first item. In an if statement you can say (item from list is not S) then do your actions ….

Hi, really cool video! I have just one question. I live in Europe and i copied a shortcut from an American KZreadr. That shortcuts allows me to set alarms a certain amount of minutes before a certain time. So if i insert 09:00, it wil set my alarm on 08:00, 08:15 etc. The only problem is: whenever i want to set these times a certain minutes before 10 AM, my device thinks i mean 10 PM. Because it doesn’t have the zero in front of the time (not 07, 08 or 09 but 10). So when i type 10:00, my phone thinks i want to set the alarms on 9 at night. Could you give me some advice? I really don’t know how i could change that. Thanks a lot!

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm I’m having a bit of trouble following. Maybe providing the link to the YT video will help orient me.

@brendo9866

3 жыл бұрын

@@neverenoughtech thank you very much for the quick reply! The link of the video is: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zqx7wdSfhqnAd9Y.html . The maker of that video put the link under the name “turn on alarms” in the comment section. Once again, my main problem is with the settings. The creator is American, with times being 10:00 AM/PM whereas we use 10:00 or 22:00. With both these times, my phone thinks i mean in the evening. So when i want the program to be ajusted to the next morning, it actually sets alarms for the evening. I was hoping there was a solution for this. I hope i’m making myself a bit clear, and i apologise for my english. Thank you for making an effort for me, and take as much time responding / checking it out as you wish.

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll give it a look later this evening. Is there a link to the shortcut in question? I didn’t see it in the description

@brendo9866

3 жыл бұрын

@@neverenoughtech yes, here you go: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/db799754323d41b386d05d84f89de4b6

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

If you press the three dots on the shortcut you have access to dictionary. If you press the items next to dictionary you can add 10:00 PM 8:PM as an option. Does this fix tour issue?

I need a reminder every Saturday an hour before the sunset. As the sunset is variable on each Saturday , how I will achieve this?

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e10a849de53b4a88936d47239ff81ac6

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

Might help

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

Actually it’s super easy. Go to automations in shortcuts (personal automations you can trigger based on sunrise and sunset along with time buffers before and after.

I want my automation (speak when charging) to only run between the hours 6 and 22. I’ve tried to use the in between condition but I can’t seem to get it to work. Any thoughts?

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

So you want the phone to speak text when the phone has begun charging between 6AM and 10PM. I don’t see why my tutorial would not apply here. I’ll create it and see what happens Worked perfectly form me. Did you format the date to number? The description includes contact info where it would be easier for me to share a screen shot of the solution that is working for me.

i did an automation where it would notify me when my charge went to a certain percentage but it keeps saying “it is now running your automation” then it sends my edited notification that i made. do u know how i can get rid of the first notification? 😿

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

If memory serves Apple forces a notification whenever an automation occurs. I think they do this so people don’t freak out and wonder what is happening with their device in the case that they forgot about the automation they setup. I think Apple did it to reduce tech support calls.

@jdb6284

3 жыл бұрын

You can disable that in screentime, all activity, notifications, shortcut. It's a hassle indeed. Also I think this resets itself when you restart your phone. no clue why..

Is this available for android

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Shortcuts is a native iOS app. So if there is something similar on the Android side, it would be different enough that this tutorial may not be helpful

and what if you do want it to work after midnight? Say from 10pm untill 6 am?

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

www.icloud.com/shortcuts/40e38ba133214cfa882b11ab168521c9

@jdb6284

3 жыл бұрын

@@neverenoughtech Hi, thanks for the quick reply. But hold on, if i read your script right, now it works from 6am till 10pm. I wanted the other way around. But your comments below showed to use the otherwise feature and i think that one will work splendidly. Thank you!!

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Correct. Use the Otherwise for your desired actions.

@jdb6284

3 жыл бұрын

@@neverenoughtech Would you mind asking you one more quick question? I'm also trying to make a timer for my dryer. After my phone scans the NFC tag, i want it to prompt me a menu with 3 options. 20 minutes, 3 hours or variable (enter yourself). I can't seem to figure it out; The shortcut I made with 'menu' prompts me, but as soon as i scan nfc, it doesnt do anything.. Any ideas?

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

@J DB - www.icloud.com/shortcuts/eced8c3ee08846309b3033ad178722eb

What device are you using to create in this video?

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

I just screen recorded my iPad Pro 12.9. Does that answer your question?

@Andijudd1

3 жыл бұрын

I have an iPad Pro aswell but when I went on and tried this out it didn’t look the same as yours. I am on iOS 14

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the iPad Pro 11 inch does look quite a bit different in layout (just checked). Hope you were still able to follow along.

What does “21” mean? 😅

@neverenoughtech

Ай бұрын

Too busy … give me a time stamp 🤓

it is not working for me :(. Everytime I get the same error that says that was impossible to convert the date from "text" to "date"

@neverenoughtech

6 ай бұрын

Much better time management technique in this video : iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html I suspect you are not changing the data type somewhere but hard for me to diagnose your issue from here

@Maubald

6 ай бұрын

@@neverenoughtech it crashes exactly at the beginning. In the data formatting step. Maybe the problem could be that I use 24h date type?

@fatherneptune

10 күн бұрын

did you ever figure this out? this is the exact same issue I’m having

@Maubald

2 күн бұрын

@@fatherneptune I did. You have to retrive the current date, then change the format in “custom format” > then you write “HH” in the string format. After you convert the formatted date as a number. Basically you just need to transform it in number before the if statement.

Hi, I want auto airplane mod on at 22:00 and off at 07:00 every day :)

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

I would just creat two automations - one for each time. I have a SC tutorial I’m working on. I can address this in a followup

Don’t have any of the fancy options to format the date on iPhone 😩 can’t figure this out!

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

You don’t have the custom option? Which phone are you using. I don’t think this should be device dependent

@JessDaly

3 жыл бұрын

NeverEnoughTech it’s not automatically laid out like on the iPad, you have to click into the action to come up with the formatting then click into it again to change, super confusing, but I guess screen space is limited on iPhone 🤦‍♀️ my brain hurts hahah

@neverenoughtech

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, iPad is more spacious. Sounds like you were able to figure out how to access it. Feel free to reach out if you encounter more trouble.

You didn't specify the ending time of the shortcut, or show us how? 😢

@neverenoughtech

Жыл бұрын

I did specify how to define a time span when the automation would run. Nonetheless I suggest you use my updated video as reference … it shows a simpler way to define the time span. Instead of sleep mode replace the action you want iPhone 14 Pro (Max) - Turn "Always On" display OFF at night (while you sleep) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWGAs9mhos69hNo.html