How do you mark and share locations with a shortcut? Setting up shortcut for one location is one thing, managing a bunch of locations is another thing.
You don’t even need a shortcut - iOS’s native focus modes can be triggered by location directly. It’s one of the configuration options that’s been there since they launched focus modes.
Yes, and Dropbox could have been a handful of unix commands.
I don't think I would use an app for this, but as far as I can tell, it aims to crowdsource silent locations, something a shortcut couldn't realistically achieve.
> I would love my phone to know I’m in Church for a wedding or at a play and not have to remember to switch.
I kinda have the opposite problem. I turn my phone to silent because I'm at a restaurant or cinema or whatever, then 3 or 4 weeks later discover I never remembered to turn it back.
And I'm 100% OK with that, I've gotten good enough at turning the ringer on when I'm expecting a call, and not worrying about "missing calls" from people who aren't in my VIP list or who don't leave voicemail.
First one sets my phone to silent when I arrive at work (500m radius I think). It also sets it back to loud (or whatever the previous state was) automatically when I leave that radius.
Second one sets my phone to loud when my phone connects to my home WiFi. This helps with the problem you describe - but agreed, phone stuck on silent isn't generally an issue (until I miss some courier's phone call and kick myself).
Personally, my issue is alarms rather than ringing. Silent mode doesn't silence the alarms, and I forget to check them. It would be great if this would silence alarms
It doesn’t silence alarms because then people would sleep through it and be late for work. Probably there should be “silencable” and “non-silencable” alarms, though I’m sure people would mix them up and use the wrong one.
iOS doesn’t support batch deleting alarms either. ‘Siri set an alarm for 45 minutes’ leaves my alarm list littered with an inactive alarm I once set, have no future use for, but is annoying enough that I’ll never delete them all. Is there an alarm set to go off in the near future? Hold on, let me scroll through 50 pages of pointless noise.
This actually works, except that upon “delete all $x alarms”, Siri asks back “do you want to delete all your alarms?”, but after confirming only deletes the $x alarms.
Still, it’s not very practical, as Siri often mishears alarm names, and also you want to use different names to know what each alarm is for.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware siri could delete alarms - this requires iirc a swipe and a tap for each alarm from the manual UI, that’s still not great for the non-voice user (alarms is the only thing I use Siri for)
Did you click on the comments section of a post just to nitpick at the title which clearly describes the purpose and OS limitations of another users’ pet project?
Shouldn’t take more than 3 minutes to set them all up.
I don't think I would use an app for this, but as far as I can tell, it aims to crowdsource silent locations, something a shortcut couldn't realistically achieve.
Basically the phone communicates with the venues via an AirTag like network and enters DND or becomes a school mode device.
It can be on by default, and some users like on call doctors or firefighter etc can override and take responsibility for managing themselves.
I would love my phone to know I’m in Church for a wedding or at a play and not have to remember to switch.
I kinda have the opposite problem. I turn my phone to silent because I'm at a restaurant or cinema or whatever, then 3 or 4 weeks later discover I never remembered to turn it back.
And I'm 100% OK with that, I've gotten good enough at turning the ringer on when I'm expecting a call, and not worrying about "missing calls" from people who aren't in my VIP list or who don't leave voicemail.
First one sets my phone to silent when I arrive at work (500m radius I think). It also sets it back to loud (or whatever the previous state was) automatically when I leave that radius.
Second one sets my phone to loud when my phone connects to my home WiFi. This helps with the problem you describe - but agreed, phone stuck on silent isn't generally an issue (until I miss some courier's phone call and kick myself).
It may be Pixel-exclusive, though I used to use the Google Assistant rules on my old phone and they mostly worked IIRC.
We really need AGI to solve that. ;)
iOS. It just works (tm).
"hey Siri, create an alarm and name it $X"
"hey Siri, delete all alarms named $X"
Still, it’s not very practical, as Siri often mishears alarm names, and also you want to use different names to know what each alarm is for.
This presupposes I have an iPhone. I don't.