60 MACWORLD DECEMBER 2019
iOSCENTRAL iOS 13 SHORTCUTSPERSONAL AUTOMATION
GETS TRIGGERED
Then there’s the big one: Personal
automations, which run on your iPad or
iPhone and have all the power of
Shortcuts behind
them. There
are a lot of
different ways
to trigger a
personal
automation.
The simplest
ones involve
the time of day,
when you
interact with
an alarm from
the Clock app,
or when
you start a
workout on
your Apple
Watch. You can
also hook into
your device’s
location
services to run
automations when you leave or arrive at
a particular location or when you connect
to CarPlay.
There are also settings-based
triggers, so you can now build Shortcuts
that run when Airplane Mode, Low
Power Mode, or Do Not Disturb are
turned on or off; or when you join a
particular Wi-Fi network or connect to a
Bluetooth device.
There are two more trigger types, andThe Convert To Shortcut link is a gateway to
more advanced Home automations.
This NFC tag-based trigger will turn on a couple of HomeKit
devices when a NFC sticker is scanned.