Apple has just released the Shortcuts 2.1 update and there are a ton of new features coming with this update. For starters, Apple has fixed the iCloud syncing problems of Shortcuts which used to be quite buggy. Apple also improved the sharing action in Shortcuts.
As I said, Apple has introduced two new actions with the Shortcuts 2.1 update and these actions are really good. Before the update, users had to depend on Siri suggested shortcuts to either create or enable alarms. However, with the new clock action, users can set their own time and create or enable their own alarms. The new Weather action is also pretty powerful and allows users to retrieve three different weather data. The data includes current weather conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, and get details for specific data points such as highs, lows, humidity, pressure, and more. Now, let’s see how we can use these new actions:
The new clock action in Shortcuts 2.1 allows three separate actions to be executed. You can create an alarm, disable/enable an alarm, or create a timer. Let’s see how you can use these actions:
As you can see, you are presented with three options. You can either create an alarm, set a timer, or toggle an alarm. Let’s use the create an alarm action for this tutorial. Tap on the “Create Alarm” toggle to add it to your shortcut.
Here, you can do a couple of things. You can set the Alarm Label, the alarm time, and decide whether you want to repeat this alarm or not. For this tutorial, I am going to label it test, and set it up for 9:30 AM. You can also tap “Never” to get the repeat options. Let’s say, I want the alarm to be repeated on a Monday.
- The initial step is quite similar to what we used in the Clock action. So, we will launch the Shortcuts app and tap on the “Create Shortcut” button. Next, tap on the search bar and scroll down to find the Weather action. The Weather action has three different options to choose from. To keep it simple, we will use the first option which is the “Get Current Weather” action.
Since the weather app will need your current location access to work, grant the access by tapping on the “Allow Access” button.
To make sure that we can get the results anywhere we run the shortcut from, we will use a “Show Result” action. To use this action, just tap on the search bar and search for “Show Result” and then select the appropriate result by tapping on it.
