SaltyCaramelApple

For photos. At least I used to.

I used it to remove EXIF data on iPhone photos, I’ve made photo collages, my nieces and nephews like to use it to make GIFs and turn the lights on and off - Lol.

There’s a few “Theft Protection” shortcuts but the ones I tested required leaving the Shortcuts app running in the background along with Location Services which drained my battery quicker.

After a while, it just got bloated IMO. I prefer Automator especially when I have a lot photos to scrub. Sometimes I use Session Messenger which removes metadata from photos (not videos) so I don’t have to download another app just to remove EXIF data.

Freeform is what I’ve been using lately to make photos collages, memes, etc. It took about 5 minutes to make the collage on this post . It seems that anything Shortcuts can do can also be done with another stock app.

I actually use it to keep my kindergartner out of the settings app. It just sends them to the calculator app instead. I may have about six months left before they figure out how to get around it.

When I used a MagSafe mount in my car, I had a shortcut triggered by connecting to the car Bluetooth to automatically turn off the screen rotation lock so I could have my screen in landscape automatically. When the car was turned off, it would revert to portrait and screen rotation locked.

I had hoped to get it to work with our chamberlain garage door openers, but Chamberlain doesn’t play nice with HomeKit anymore.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-use-siri-shortcuts-to-record-a-police-encounter

I have three automations related to my sleep schedule that send the current state to Home Assistant, which I then use to automate scene transitions in my bedroom:

i use one to notify me my phone battery has reached 80% while charging.

i would like to use another to auto-delete spam sms (since apple's spamguards are nowhere near as effective as any android messaging app), but that's not something which can be set up.

but otherwise i have no use-case for shortcuts.

I use it to send links to my server over SSH

I use a pair to set low power mode any time my phone is off charger.

I have another that opens Spotify whenever I connect to my Bluetooth speaker.

I’ve used it to quickly play downloaded songs using Siri in my car. Trying to navigate by hand to “music > Songs > Downloaded > Shuffle” is like venturing through a Minotaur maze while driving.

I use it to refresh my apps installed via SideStore every couple days. They’d need manual intervention every 7 days otherwise. Works like a charm, now I have YouTube with adblock and sponsor block.

I also use it to turn my Apple Watch to cinema mode (screen off) whenever I enable the ”super quiet, don’t even buzz” mode on my phone when I’m bringing the little one to bed. And the watch goes back to normal when I turn off that mode.

I have a bunch.

Launch Waze and turn off WiFi when I connect to Bluetooth in my car

Turn down the volume on one of my headsets when I connect, since otherwise it blasts my ear drums

I use Federico Vittici’s multi button for my action button: one press turns on the flashlight, press again within five seconds does something else.

Pull my next appointment and give me directions to it

Check a price on KEEPA or camelcamelcamel without using an extension, just share from that URL and run the shortcut

Delete all my disabled alarms, leaving those that are still active.

Play a random music album

Find the album of the currently playing song and play the whole album.

Backup all my tabs in safari to a file

Send the newest photo to a contact of my choice (works great voice-only)