Hello -

I am currently testing iOS 27 beta and the New Siri, but with a British voice.

With British and American voices I get errors on Frunk and Tonneau, it referred to the frunk as the bonnet and when I asked it to open the trunk (assuming it would open the tonneau) it opened the tailgate and referred to it as the boot.

I’m pretty sure I can fix this by renaming the shortcuts to something it can understand me better by, but i was curious to see if you guys had any tips to share?

I analysed almost all the posts on anti-theft shortcuts, and this is the best system I came up with. But I have a few questions.

1. I set location to ‘best’ instead of ‘10 meters’, and that’s a good idea, right?
2. I can’t find a way to turn off auto brightness.
3. I can’t find a way to make my phone take the pictures quietly. Plus, when the pictures are sent, they make sounds. All of which are probably bad because that will alert the thief, right? Can I turn them off without affecting ringer volume, perhaps?
4. Is there anything else I should add to improve this?
5. Do I have to use Messages to send the pictures and location? Is there no way I can use WhatsApp? Cause my partner has an Android phone.
6. Are there any mistakes I’ve made?
7. Do you have suggestions to improve this?

The actual Shortcut and Automation:

• The Shortcut for the remote activation automation (Please create the automation for this cause it won't run by itself)
• Airplane Mode shortcut

Explanation of some actions:

• White Point and Greyscale are designed to further help save battery life.
• Wallpaper 6 is pure black wallpaper with grey-tinted icons/widgets. Again to help with battery life.
• Airplane Mode Shortcut has the same stuff as the automation.
• “Why not remove Airplane mode from control centre?” Because you can still enable it by using Siri.

Feedback I got:

u/Tackticat

>for #3 perhaps you can toggle silent mode on, take pics, toggle it off.
also would it make sense to no have LPM on because:
you want accurate GPS and quick icloud sync for find my.
probably don't need to sms location or photo because of find my & icloud sync (hence no LPM). at least in my use case.

u/grandtheftfraud-o

>I would make the initiating text something a bit more unique than “lost phone”. Maybe a longer phrase or something, or a unique sentence with random words. That’s just me though

u/Hot_Priority3615

>On top of the shortcuts few things i would suggest are:

>- Disable access to control center when phone is locked. So they can’t toggle WiFi or anything when locked. - trigger shortcut when airplane mode is turned on in case someone steal it when unlocked. Probably first thing they will do is turn on airplane mode. - switch to esim so thieves can’t toss sim out - turn on screen time passcode and disable changing account settings/ passcode from screen time - turn on stolen device protection and disable known locations in it.

u/Available-Travel2158

>Hey,

1. the more precise it is, the better
2. No action let you disable auto brightness
3. Turn on Silent mode when taking pictures and sending messages, then turn it off
4. If your two phones are recents, they probably use the RCS protocol (equivalent to iMessage or WhatsApp in a way), which allows you to share images in full quality, however, WhatsApp doesn't allow you to send a message from an action
5. You can activate the zoom, and depending on your zoom settings, you can prevent the thief from turning off the phone with the slider after long pressing the power and volume+ buttons

>Hope it was helpful, ask if you need

u/joenick78

>Separate from this shortcut, here’s what I do:

>Settings > Face ID & Passcode

>Under the section “Allow Access When Locked” turn OFF Control Center.

>The first thing a thief will do when your phone is stolen is turn on airplane mode, which completely disconnects your phone from all networks (meaning you won’t even get that text message trigger for your shortcut).

>Without access to Airplane Mode, even if your phone is off, you can still track it with Find My. Just make sure you know your Apple password!

u/dede280492

>If someone actually steals it they would turn off right away so it can’t be tracked. No matter what you are trying to do it’s unlikely to get it back I’m sorry.

u/0898_333_201

>A few suggestions based on my own “theft mode” shortcut:

• Create “Theft Mode” Focus with:
  • All app notifications OFF
  • All people notifications OFF
  • Dark Mode ON
  • Pure black wallpaper
• Add the following actions to your shortcut:
  • Lock the screen
  • Turn ON “Theft Mode” Focus
  • Turn Night Shift to ON
  • Set Voice & Data Mode to LTE on current data line (to preserve battery)
• Create another shortcut specifically for Back Tap (triple) where:
  • If [Phone is locked] → Run shortcut “Theft Mode”
  • Otherwise → nothing or whatever your current Back Tap shortcut is
• Create another shortcut to undo all of the Theft Mode stuff, whisk you can trigger with Siri

>I think the Back Tap trigger is especially important. If I’m mugged, the mugger will most likely demand my passcode, and I want them to beleive that my phone is dead so they can’t check if the passcode works.

>No solution for the auto-brightness thing unfortunately. I just leave it disabled. But I find auto-brightness kind of annoying anyway so no great loss.

I have a super simple shortcut to turn off/on auto rotate when I open certain apps. Since the ios 27 betas opening Control Center counts as “closing” the apps and it re-enables rotation lock. Any ideas how to fix this?

Hey everyone!

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I am trying to create an automation that I will get some kind of alarm or play music when I arrive home anytime between 7p-10p to remind me to give my son his medicine. Is there a way to set it up that the sound would play even if the volume is turned down or silent mode? Thank you!

Whenever I try to share a shortcut I keep getting this error message. I tried restarting the app, restarting my phone, going on to mobile data instead of WiFi, and nothing worked. What do I do?

RoutineHub Link: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/24915/

Last time I demoed QM was back in v2.7.0, when it still had all of those serif italic fonts and a couple of other things you guys simply weren’t a fan of.

I decided to make some changes, including switching the fonts to a more standard sans Unicode style, as you can see in the screenshots.

Apart from that, QM has had quite a few major changes since then, including the addition of Configs, which lets you customise your experience as much as you please and make QM your own.

What Changed

The old portrait-style QM also didn’t work particularly well in landscape. For example, when you want to play some games, you ended up having to scroll through the menu — and nobody wants to do that! Because of that, I made a dedicated Landscape mode, with only the essentials you may need while playing your favourite game.

Plug n Play has also grown significantly since it was last shown. It now has many more commands, an updated UI, and lots of new features. If you want your fifth slot to open something other than Plug n Play, you can also change that in QM Configs.

With all the new features and files QM now has, Onboarding has also been added to make setup easier. It can guide you through the changelog and handle configuration migration when applicable.

If you don’t like any of these features, you can disable them in QM Configs, found under:

Launchpad → Settings → QM Configs

Please give me some feedback in the comments down below; it would help me a ton with improving future versions of QM!

I’m building a Mac automation app called Tapquence, and I’m looking for ideas for the next Smart Automation.

The idea behind Smart Automations is pretty simple: instead of manually building a sequence of clicks and keystrokes, you pick a useful preset, configure a few options, and it’s ready to go.

We already have a few built in (see screenshot), but I’d love to add ones based on actual use cases rather than just inventing features for the sake of having more.

So I’m curious: what repetitive thing do you regularly do on your Mac that you wish you could automate with one click or shortcut?

Can be something very simple or oddly specific. If it’s useful and technically possible, I might build it into Tapquence.

For context, this is the app: https://tapquence.com