Beginner's Guide to Siri Shortcuts - Part 4: Scripting

Welcome to part four of my Beginner's Guide to Siri Shortcuts. In this fourth part we'll learn about how to use scripting actions like loops and if statements to make our shortcuts react to user input and to changing conditions on our devices.

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[BimmerWon]

I made 2 shortcuts that I run in a CarPlay triggered automation. What it does is it looks though my reminders to see if I have any places with addresses I need to be within the next 3 hours when I connect to CarPlay. If I do, it takes the address from the earliest due date reminder and sets it as my route automatically. If I arrive to my destination within +/- 1 hour, the reminder is automatically checked off once I disconnect from CarPlay upon arrival. Also, if I have “Get gas” scheduled on any particular day, it will automatically set my route to my favorite gas station once I connect to CarPlay after work. If I have a place to be after work and don’t have enough time to get gas, it will automatically set my route to the appointment instead of the gas station. It’s able to determine if I have enough time to get gas by adding the current location to gas travel time, gas to appointment location travel time, plus 5 minutes as a buffer for fueling up to determine my final destination arrival time. If the result is later than the scheduled appointment time, it sets the route to the appointment, otherwise it sets my route to the gas station. Then once I get back into the car after fueling up it automatically sets the route to the appointment. I never have to enter in the address manually ever again (unless you count entering it in reminders) XD. I don’t even have to confirm the execution of the shortcut. The total combined actions between the 2 shortcuts is 84.

[paulrockhopper]

Just wanted to say I have watched loads of shortcut videos and it has taken until yours before somebody explained in such a clear manner. Fantastic. You should have way more subscribers than you have. Thankyou

[adolphoabg]

Thank you so much for such a well made tutorial. Though I’m a programmer myself I could not figure by myself how to use it. I’m really thankful. Is it possible to get this already made shortcuts you have created in this video? Thank you!

[DanaKaempen]

Yet another excellent video! Thank you so much for taking the time & effort to produce such fine teaching examples. I look forward to finishing the whole series.

Here's a quick suggestion for another video: Modifying existing shortcuts (like the ones provided in the basic libarry) to tweak them to do something related to their original purpose, but different. This would help us to go through the thought process involved in "decoding" someone else's shortcut and inserting "our own" logic. I hope you'll give the idea some consideration.

Thanks again!!!

[CrimsonMenace]

Hey dude. Thank you so much it’s 02:00 and I’ve finally done it.

I made my shortcut run
I was working on a shortcut that would allow someone to say multiple shortcuts using “and” and I finally got it to work. THANK YOU!!!!

[Nebucatnetzer]

I really like all your iPad and Shortcuts videos. Good content which goes quite a bit beyond the normal couch iPad stuff.

[aniketmi]

Great videos. Appreciate the detail and examples. I'm having some trouble with my custom shortcut to open up display setting and select auto-lock time. I used but I need to go one step further and pass a value to Autolock so that I don't need to select the auto-lock time manually. Not sure how do I pass a value to it. Will really appreciate any tips or pointers. Thanks in advance

[charleschiang]

It is such a brilliant idea to set the same value to share sheet input and what user select! I see how powerful to use set value instead of using the default one. Thank you!

[yukuhana]

Very helpful and clear tutorial. Thank you!!

[MandolinSunrise]

Many thanks for straight forward explanations.

[marcos]

Thanks!
This is the best serie for beginners, really useful for me
Just added at the end of the shortcut: (hope it helps anyone)
Show alert: do you want to share the file? yes/no
Share with extensions (selected with magical variable)
Delete photos (selected with magical variable)
In case you don't want the photo anymore
Thank you again

[omarz]

This is awesome.

I am trying to complete a series of actions to power on some smart switches in specific order without needing repeated input. Any hints? It looks like repeat and if would be helpful

[itz-zlink]

I feel like I finished school!! Keep up the great work my dude

[WikiPal]

You are really great! Thanks. I would like to create a shortcut that pass my dictation of grocery items to a reminder I use for shopping groceries, and I was able but... alas! It creates a single voice and I want it split in different lines...

[databrowser]

Useful, i was looking at a series of videos on Shortcuts, it is useful, Thank you.

[gunhasirac]

The usage of if function makes a lot sense now. Thank you so much. Didn’t realize I need to provide a yes/no value beforehand to make it work. I thought it has build in interface for the condition and that confused me a lot.

[iraf.]

Great stuff! Thanks. One shortcut I need help with: choosing a WIFI connection from iPhone settings. When I move to another location I'd like to choose a new WIFI connection, but can't find a way to do that with a shortcut. There doesn't seem to be a way to enter into the Settings on the iPhone and set up that new setting. Help Please!

[techiguy]

i am looking for siri shortcuts manual to learn all about actions and how to use them but have not found anywhere yet. Please guide me if you know any resources. anyway what a great video and lovely explanation. Thanks alot.

[MrLX]

Great work 👍🏻
Is there any way to set an On/Off for personal hotspot?

[Larsbor]

Absolutely love how you go thorough trough why and etc. with variables (Since I am not a programmer, and dont see how I will get there either without these youtubes). That said after getting the photoresizing to work, the pictures got from 4MB to 8MB and very blurry. In the info the pictures has the same size so what happend. I cant use this/it for anything but learning....