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Some of my favorite Shortcuts do things like:

- toggle the white point setting on or off to warm and dim the display for nighttime,

- present a menu that makes and displays QR codes for my contact (from vCard text), Wifi info, and more,

- turn off Wifi and cellular at the same time (this one's on my homescreen),

- upload a .torrent file to qBittorrent's watch folder via SSH.

I use Shortcuts at work, too, like sharing a Wifi network with visitors - easier than fiddling with settings and they can take a picture of the QR code to share with others in their party.

My favorite and most handy Shortcut took a picture of an order form, OCRed it, applied a regex to find the order #, and finally showed a QR code I could scan with my scanner; This was at a job where customers would come to pick up, and would often have their order email on their phone or as a printout. The Shortcut meant I could snap the photo first thing and then chit-chat in the time it took the Shortcut to run, instead of them passing their phone to me or reading out the number.

Shortcuts is one of the things that keeps me on iOS.




> turn off Wifi and cellular at the same time (this one's on my homescreen)

Out of curiosity - how is this different from enabling Airplane Mode?


Airplane mode leaves WiFi on.


Not on my 13 mini w/ iOS 18.1, and I don’t remember WiFi ever staying on when enabling airplane mode.

Weird that it seems to be different for different people, though.


According to an help article by Apple [1], if you activate wifi or bluetooth during airplane mode, it will remember that and not disable those when you use airplane mode again. I was also surprised reading your comment as for my phone wifi and bluetooth stay on during airplane mode. I must've activated them once and then it just stayed like that ever since.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-my/guide/iphone/iphb771143ee/io...




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