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For those unfamiliar with the app, Widget for Messages uses a single Shortcuts action to be used via the Message automation trigger for when a message is received within your Messages app. It’s then displayed on a widget on your Home Screen.

With this beta, it includes some optimizations, support for the new OS27 Extra Large Widget, better support for CarPlay users, and more.

All details and the TestFlight link are available here. You should be able to unlock the full app’s in-app purchase at no charge during the testing period. The app will be free as it is now with the use of the small widget; premium unlock is required to utilize all other widget sizes.

Shortcuts Time Machine helps you back up, organize, restore, and version your Apple Shortcuts library.

Requires OS27 Beta and will be a free app

Create full backups of your shortcuts, save individual shortcut versions, track changes over time, and keep important shortcut files available when you need to restore or review them later.

Features include:

• Back up shortcuts from iCloud links and/or shortcut files
• Save individual shortcut versions with comments
• View backup and version history for each shortcut
• Compare shortcut versions and review action changes
• Store shortcut files for future restore or export
• Organize shortcuts by folder
• Filter by folder, backup date, favorites, archive status, and development status
• Search across shortcut names, comments, actions, and metadata
• Mark shortcuts as favorites, archived, or in development
• View shortcut details including action count, file size, latest backup, and version history
• Track app activity with a searchable log
• Use companion Shortcuts to automate backups and save versions of shortcuts that are a work in progress

Shortcuts Time Machine helps protect your shortcuts from accidental changes, lost versions, deleted automations, or forgotten edits by keeping a local history you can inspect and restore from.

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Setup

• Download and Install Shortcuts Time Machine from TestFlight.
• Add the Backup my Shortcuts and Save Shortcut Version shortcuts to your Shortcuts library.
• Run the Backup my Shortcuts shortcut and observe during the first run to be sure to acknowledge the access prompts. Be sure to tap Always Allow. The shortcut needs your permission to access your Shortcuts library to back up each link and file of the shortcuts. Once completed, no need to monitor the shortcut anymore.
• To schedule automatic backups:
  • Open the Backup my Shortcuts inside the Shortcuts app.
  • Tap into the Search field at the bottom of the Shortcuts app and tap Automation at the top.
  • Select Time of Day and set your preferred date and time frame.

Automation Control allows you to easily toggle on/off automations, log when your automations run or fail to run and tells the Shortcuts app to run your shortcut if certain conditions are met. More details can be found at Automation Control: The better way to manager your Shortcuts Automations

Download the beta; TestFlight Link

Implemented a new option named Automation Trigger that can be scheduled to run on a time interval with a repeating option. This will allow for easier building of Shortcuts automations that users wants to run like on an hourly basis, every 3 mins, whatever you'd like and automatically logs each time the notification triggered. Requires OS27 to be used with the new App Notification automation trigger.

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What’s New:

• Run Shortcuts automations on the hour, every hour.
• Run Shortcuts automations on time intervals like every 5 mins or 3 hours.
• Run Shortcuts automations at intervals based on all of the available additional conditions.
• Toggle to try and auto dismiss notification after 5 seconds
• Motion: In Motion, Stationary, Walking, Running, Driving, Cycling

New Conditions (Does not requires OS27)

• Orientation: Portrait, Portrait Upside Down, Landscape Left/Right, Face Up/Down
• Active Call: If device is on an active call
• Screen Lock: If deice’s screen is locked
• Low Power Mode - Is on/off

How to use Automation Trigger:

• Create a new Controller Item in the Automation Control app and name it the same as your shortcut.
• Tap the Conditions tab (icon that displays two pill shaped toggles on top of each other) and tap the Automation Trigger
• Select your trigger mode
• Start the trigger
• Save

In your shortcut, tap the automation button and tap the App Notification option. Select Automation Control as the app and set it to Run Immediately. Now, on the time interval you’ve set, the notification will appear and the shortcut automation will run.

Automation Trigger Details:

• Enable Automation Trigger: you already know what that does
• Trigger Mode: Every Interval/Hourly on the Hour/Date & Time Conditions (based on the date and time conditions set in the Additional Conditions section)
• Keep Control Item Name as Title: Show or Hide the name of the controller item or replace it with the custom text you input in the optional Notification Text field. If the toggle is set to On, both the name and custom text will display.
• Start/Stop Trigger: Begin or end the notification schedule

Though Notification Grouping is set to Automation in system settings, they come in mixed together vs being grouped by subreddit. Is there something on the backend that has to be done to achieve grouping the notifications by sub?

Also, if there are multiple notifications pending user interaction, tapping one of those notifications to open to the post clears out the remaining notifications, preventing access to them. Is it possible to get the remaining notifications to remain until accessed or manually cleared?