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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Applefan1000 on 2026-03-30 02:15:00+00:00.
I am not a morning person. My girlfriend is. She loves waking up to a sweet good morning text. The problem is I don’t wake up until like 10 and she’s up at 6.
Lately I’ve been getting really into using AI for random life stuff and I asked ChatGPT if there was a way to automatically send a text at a certain time every morning. It walked me through setting up Shortcuts on my iPhone. Basically I made a list of like 30 good morning messages I wrote myself — things like “good morning beautiful, hope your day is amazing” and “thinking about you first thing 💛” — and set up an automation that picks one at random and sends it through iMessage every day somewhere between 6:15 and 6:45 AM.
I thought I was a genius. She’d always reply with hearts and I’d see them when I actually woke up. Everyone wins.
This went on for four months. FOUR MONTHS. Not a single hiccup.
Yesterday she slept over and my phone was on the nightstand. At 6:30 AM my phone screen lit up, she watched it open Messages by itself, type out “rise and shine beautiful ☀️ you’re my favorite person” and send it. To her. While I was snoring next to her.
She shook me awake and I have never seen that look on someone’s face before. It’s like confusion and hurt and trying not to laugh all at the same time.
Her argument is that the messages meant nothing. My argument is that I literally sat down and personally wrote 30 heartfelt messages and set this whole thing up because I care about her. She said “you automated love.” I still don’t have a comeback for that.
We’re currently in a “space” situation. My buddy said I should post the Shortcut to r/shortcuts since I’m apparently single now.
TL;DR: Used AI to help me set up an iPhone automation that sends my girlfriend a random good morning iMessage every day at 6:30 AM. She was sleeping over, watched my phone send it by itself while I was asleep right next to her, and now we’re on a break