Entries with the tag “ios”

It’s already hard enough for me to start my exercise in the morning. Any friction in the way can make me stop it - or at least not track it.

Since I started using Strava to track my walks, I checked its iOS widgets. I figured I should be able to just click a widget to start an activity.

Sadly that’s not the case. They’re only progress widgets. So, after doing some research, I created my own iOS shortcut. Here’s how.

Sometimes you just want to generate a custom meme image but you don’t want any attribution or to share it publicly like sites like Imgflip do. You can do this easily with an iOS shortcut (likely works on MacOS too). Let’s find out how.

I use Things for my todo list. I like it, but I don’t like the voice control. You have to say “Add I want to buy candy to my things 3” - sometimes you can leave off 3. This works sometimes - but for longer things it’s not great. What’s an alternative? I got one - and it’s way better.

You don’t need to install another app with more bloated requirements to track your weight daily in the Apple health app. You can do this with iOS Shortcuts. Here’s how:

If you’re running PiHole as your DNS, you might run into situations where you want to disable it quickly. By making a shortcut on my iPhone, I can quickly disable (or re-enable) PiHole. Let me show you how.

With the Shortcuts app on your iOS device, it’s easy to create a motivational message for after your alarm.