hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I want to share with you the top five
shortcuts that hopefully you'll actually use now the shortcuts app needs to be
installed you can get this in the App Store for free and there's a ton of
shortcuts out there but I wanted to find some that you'd actually use and I did
do a video on how to put these together in a different video sometime ago and
I'll be making a follow-up to that later on but this should work for you pretty
simply you'll just install them I'll show you how to do that later on now
what we can do initially here is just go to our widgets I already have the
shortcuts widget here and you'll see I have Wi-Fi off and on Bluetooth off and
on so those four are going to be our first shortcut since they're fairly
simple and straightforward now a lot of people were annoyed that Apple changed
the control center when you turn Wi-Fi off it says it only does it until
tomorrow so what we've made is a shortcut to turn it off and on and off
and on for Bluetooth now my daughter put these together I know some of these are
out there but my daughter put most of these together especially the more
advanced ones and they work really well so if we'll go to Wi-Fi off you'll see
instantly its off and it's not just off in the control center it's actually off
right here you'll see it's off Wi-Fi is completely off now if we go here you can
turn it back on it will turn back on and then the same is true of Bluetooth turn
bluetooth off if we take a look here you'll see bluetooth is off now so it
works really well it's super fast and straightforward turn it back on and
again it will turn back on so it's great a simple way to turn that off and on if
you want to and leave it off until you want to turn it back on now the next
thing is a little bit more advanced we'll go into the shortcuts app for this
one and the next one has to do with right here you'll see it has to do with
morning so we have morning and night these are two separate ones so they're a
little bit more advanced now on an Android phone you can do something say
good morning it's a routine that you can actually say good morning to your phone
and it will recognize that and then give you a bunch of information in succession
so that's what we've created here so you'll see here's the program itself and
we'll need to customize a little bit of it so it's going to give us our travel
distance to wherever we're going so we'll need to
put that in at the bottom and I have it going to the local Apple store it's
going to give us a bunch of information so you need to make sure you have that
set and then I've also set the voice for this so if you tap on these three dots
tap this little button here you'll see it says good day I custom-made the
customized that Siri phrase so you see I can rerecord it or delete the shortcut I
use that phrase because good mornings already taken
I used a good day so we'll close that and then we'll just say good day good
day so that that gives us a status of the whole day now we don't have to have
it read us read it to us like that we can just go in here and tap on it and it
will open and give us that information you'll see it run here it's doing the
same exact thing and we can do that from the widgets as well but it gives you the
information for the day and you'll have everything you need right there
unfortunately when it's reading it back it says your shortcut says so far they
haven't removed that ability now the same is true for g'night this one does a
little bit different things again I've recorded a series of have a good night
so we'll try that one have a good night now this is not an uncommon problem I
keep running into this but the shortcut works just fine so if we go into this
we'll run it and it says do you have anything to do tomorrow until you don't
want to forget and you might have noticed it dimmed the screen for the
night so we can say yes if we have a reminder and it says is there anything
you don't want it to forget tomorrow it autofills yes you hit ok and it says by
some it will just say milk we'll just fill in what it already has
it done and that's it so it just asked you if you want a reminder dims your
screen and you can have it set alarms as well so we'll turn this back up so I
think you get the idea there so though it's that's really convenient you have a
good morning good night and now we have another one that I think's pretty handy
that might help if you're out in restaurants now there's tip apps
available all over the place but I haven't found one that does this I could
be wrong but hopefully this will help we'll go to Bill and it says are you
splitting the bill between multiple people will say yes it says how many
people are you splitting it between let's pick three says what is the total
cost of the bill we'll pick something like 240 185 so that's the total bill
hit OK it says would you like to tip them no tip 10 15 or 20% will hit 20
percent and it gives you your part of the bill to pay so it will split it up
simply just like that and you could assign a series shortcut to it with a
voice as well tap the three dots tap this button add to Siri and you could
say something like Bill's so let's try that bill no that will work now there's
another one this one's a lot more advanced and it's more of a bonus we'll
take a look at another one as well but this is more of a bonus and it's really
clever its activity and coffeeshops is a second submenu for this activity so if
we tap on the three buttons here three dots you'll see this is really quite a
long program that's going on here and so my daughter came up with this to take
care of things if she was bored maybe come up with something to do so we'll
tap on activity and it says do you want to stay in or go out
so we'll say go out and how much do you want to spend we'll say five to ten
dollars pick something here we'll say food and it runs and picks the local
local food places nearby within a certain radius so maybe we'll pick this
one it opens maps and then get you
directions there so it's really simple and straightforward but a great idea and
again we can do activity stay in and it will give you a bunch of
different websites with a bunch of activity ideas again go out and if it's
in the winter it will pick coffee shops if it's not it won't so it does a bunch
of different things that's customizable of course you could say photo shoot
escape room photo shoot escape room buy something and they're all customized
under this specific menu it's pretty clever and I really like that one now
there's one more bonus when we did not create and that's photo grid and this is
something that may help if you like to put a lot of photos together we'll do
photo grid and we'll pick all photos we'll pick the wallpaper from now or
from today maybe an iPhone 10 our picture and some of the photos I took
from the ten-hour review so let's see one two three four five six I think
that's enough what's it done we'll wait for it to run and you'll see it's put
them in a grid now this is a savable photo you can edit it you can save it
like this to your photos and edit it and share it and I think it's it's pretty
helpful there's some others here that I've messed around with it doesn't work
so great so those were more of experiments but they do work but all of
these here that I've shown you now I'll share in the description below and let
me show you how you can actually install one of those it's pretty simple I've
emailed one from here over to that device so that you can check it out so
let me show you how that how that works so here's the shortcut I emailed it to
myself you'll get a link to the same sort of shortcut that will open up in
the app so we'll tap on this and it says what would you like to do copy two
shortcuts so make sure you have the shortcuts app installed copy the
shortcuts and I already have it but I'll just replace it and here's the morning
shortcut that we already ran it's complete with all the information that
we had before and you'll need to fill in your destination and that's it so
everything else the destinations here everything else should work just fine
you'll have that same destination as me but once you've got it installed you can
discuss the it tapped three buttons their doubts and
customize the location and hopefully that gives you some shortcuts that
you'll actually use let me know of any good ones if you have any others I'd
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I'll see you next time