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Written by Sumocat 🐈‍⬛ on 2025-01-19 at 17:52

In today’s episode of “I can build a shortcut for that,” I have a two-parter. First, I built a shortcut to add status updates to a shared note that my wife can access on her business trip. Most of the updates are cat based and occur when she’s working or sleeping, so started a log that she can check at her leisure. Started with just the cats in/out report and expanded from there while she was in-flight. She arrived safely to a slew of updates.

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Written by Sumocat 🐈‍⬛ on 2025-01-19 at 17:52

In part 2, I put the new Rename Shortcut action in iOS/iPadOS 18 to use by updating my toggle shortcuts. I have a stack of Shortcut widgets on my Home Screens and Today Views to turn on/off various scenes in my home. Until last night, they were just labeled “toggle.” Now they change names (and Siri commands) when toggled. I keep one bathroom light on overnight at 1%. My widget for that now changes name from “Dim Bath Lights” to “Bath Lights to Full” and vice versa.

[#]Shortcuts #iOS #iPadOS

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Written by Sumocat 🐈‍⬛ on 2025-01-19 at 17:52

Notes:

▪️I do these home automations in Shortcuts, not Home, bc they’re not simple on/off toggles, and there’s a sequence in some that change at different times of day.

▪️ I set up a few others with renames, including Pursuit Mode and Cinema Mode shortcuts that “engage” and “disengage” my driving focus and living room lighting modes, respectively.

▪️ I also updated my bath light shortcut with a notification to show visual confirmation of the light configuration. There are four lights.

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