iOS 15.4 makes shortcut automation less annoying to use

Apple's upcoming iOS 15.4 software update has quietly added a huge quality of life change to its Shortcuts app: the ability to disable the incredibly annoying notifications for personal automations that users have set up on their devices, as shown below. Shown in the given figure. Fjordane developer Florian Berger has been spotted on Twitter.

For those who don't use shortcuts regularly, the automation feature is one of the most useful and powerful tools Apple gives its users access. At its heart, it lets users set up basic "if/then" triggers for a variety of situations on an iPhone, whether it's a specific time of day, arriving at a location, receiving an email or text from a specific contact, Joining a Wi-Fi network, tapping the NFC tag, opening an app, or when your phone hits a certain level of battery life.

Used properly, the shortcut is incredibly useful, allowing for things like disabling notifications when your Kindle app is open so you can read in peace when your phone's battery drops below 50 percent. , then turn on Low Power Mode automatically, or disable Rotation Lock when you open the applet. TV app so that your shows can enter full-screen mode properly.

But by iOS 15.4, Apple had previously made this feature virtually unusable for common tasks by setting mandatory notifications to trigger situations every time. The new update fixes that, however, by adding a toggle that allows users to disable those notifications, making Apple's shortcut automation more useful for day-to-day tasks, allowing you to remove spammy notifications. . Which appears every time you trigger it. ,

To disable notifications, just tap on Automation and turn off the new "Notify while playing" toggle if you're running the latest iOS 15.4 beta. You'll have to do this for every notification, but once you've set it up correctly, you'll never bother with the shortcut notification bar for your automations again.

There are a few caveats here, though: The new setting is only for shortcut automation, not all shortcuts. This means that if you're using a shortcut as a shortcut for a custom iOS icon, for example, there's no way to remove the pop-up banner when you open an app with that method.

iOS 15.4 also adds the option to use Face ID while wearing a mask and several new emoji on the new iPhone. The update is still in public beta but should see a wider release in the coming weeks - hopefully with these exciting new features still available.