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I tried to do the shortcut folder thing but I was unable to customize the icons
You should be able to tap the icon next to the title of the shortcut while you’re in it and it will allow you to change the color and glyph.
Can you share a screenshot of how you configured that?
Half of them you can have in your control center?
Bruuuuuhhh charge your phone
Some people just like to live on the edge lol
Yeah, just did that
It’s honestly my favorite feature. I always have to turn my WiFi fully off when driving or it auto connects to my dash cam and stops maps and music. Since you can only temporarily disable it (idk the technical term) in control center I’d have to unlock>settings>wifi>off and again with Bluetooth. Now I can hold the action button>select shortcut and it’s done. I also have a timer set for my lunch break and before I’d forget to turn it on because I didn’t want to stop in a walkway to go through menus. Now action button>start preset timer. It’s a small time saver but it’s nice for the things you use often.
The con for me is I accidentally press it when trying to turn the volume up
you can turn off the auto connection to your dashcam’s wifi connection in the wifi settings. just turn off auto-join and that’s that.
You underestimate how muh easier is to click tbe Action Button vs dragging the Control Center down. Specially one handed or carrying stuff.
Not if you’re just going to select your action from a menu like OP is doing. In some ways it’s even less convenient than the Control Center because the menu items are at the very top of the screen.
Not just that, but a lot of the most important functionality in control center is further hidden under long presses. Takes FOREVER to bring up a list of Bluetooth devices or WiFi networks or the hotspot/airdrop settings.
They should add an “open control center” shortcut action for this purpose.
Seeing that most of OP’s shortcuts are at the TOP of the screen, how much easier is it, really, to access those functions?
But the OTHER half validate the idea.
Yeah, some are kind of redundant but I plan on swapping them out as I think of more convenient shortcuts to put in their place.
Most of them
This is cool. Need to do this to my action button.
How can you create the toggle shortcut on/off.
Can you share?
Thanks
Yes please
Here’s how I did it.
- Open Shortcuts App
- Tap the + button in the top right corner.
- Tap the Add Action Button.
- Tap in the Search Field and Search “Set Silent Mode”.
- At the top of the screen it will say Turn Silent Mode On.
- Tap the word “Turn” and select “Toggle”
- Go to the search bar at the bottom of the page and Search “Vibrate Device”
- Tap Done in the top right hand corner.
Skip step 5b if you don’t want a vibration notification. Thats all.
Thanks! You’re a life saver!
This is much nicer looking than the List method, but is there any way to make it show more than 8?
I don’t believe so, I have the action button opening a shortcuts folder that contains these 8 shortcuts. If you add any more than 8 it will show you the first 8 in the folder, in the order you have them in.
Shame it limits to only 8, but a nice use of the Action Button all the same, thanks for sharing
Agreed, wish you could move between sections and just create another 8. The only way I’ve been able to add more options is to use 7 icons of your choice, with the 8th being the “List” method. Here’s an example of how I have it setup. But I’ll be switching most of the buttons and applications when I have time today.
How do you change the password icon displayed?
…and here I am still using the action button to toggle silent.
Great stuff! Will definitely give this a try.
You gotta make it have a menu like this in portrait mode but trigger the camera if horizontal. That’s the move.
Is there an advantage to using some of these shortcuts? I mean the camera and the flashlight ones for example.
Ehh, not necessarily. Just yet another way to access them. I will probably end up replacing some of the redundant ones as I think of better shortcuts to include instead.
IMO shutdown and restart are good ones to add.
I also made one to set volume to 1% which is just about right for listening to something while my wife sleeps beside me.
You have gloves on that aren’t touch-capacitive
Awesome
Mein BMW
If you could share the link for this that would be much appreciated
So this actually isn’t a single shortcut running, I created a folder in the shortcuts app and then created these 8 individual shortcuts within that folder. Then I mapped the action button to open that shortcuts folder when pressed and this is the result.
These shortcuts were super simple to make, with most just being a single action within the shortcut.
I tried to do this but the 8th shortcut in my list would not show, it will always show “open app” that taken place with my supposedly 8th app like this
I’ve got the same issue, no clue how to get rid of the “Open app” 8th spot
This honestly should have been the default for action button. Having a favorites list trumps a single action.
Great thinking.
Which bmw?
Well. I will try this. I’ve been using the Camera and love that I can long press to bring up and then use the button to snap pics. The way the camera works as a shortcut here, I have to use the actual button on the screen. 😒 but I like having multiple options.
That’s cool. Feels very Samsung with the color/icon scheme though.
