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Re:Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts by Ididntdothis on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:11AM (#21081595)
Is it possible to write these in regular code? I am not a big fan of these visual tools. Seems they are quite clunky compared to code.
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Re:Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts by Xavdidtheshadow on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:31PM (#21085775)
In addition to the others listed, there's also https://shortcuts.fun/

It's a hack, but it works pretty well.

There's also a lot of work been done in iOS 13 to reduce the number of steps required to do a thing. There's info about that here: https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-13-the-mac...

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Re:Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts by merryMellody on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:15AM (#21081648)
With an app like Scriptable, you can indeed! This one lets you write JavaScript code, and they added the feature to pass in parameters with iOS 13.1!

https://scriptable.app

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Re:Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts by prashnts on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:35PM (#21082667)
Pythonista 3 (currently on TestFlight) is another option. I like the custom keyboard shortcuts that it adds. It can also trigger shortcuts, I reckon.
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Re:Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts by Ididntdothis on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:32PM (#21083961)
This is interesting. I thought iOS is pretty locked down.
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