I’m just bringing up some of my usual complaints I hope Apple will fix soon.
Have a timeout for when to clear the state of the “Add action” UI (iOS/iPadOS)
Let’s say I have navigated to the Add actions UI, searched for Things
, selected the app Things
and first add a Find Items
action.
Persist that state longer than until I added that action.
Because it is very likely that I want to add more actions from the same app. I’d prefer if it was persisted until I navigate out of the Things area of add actions or that I exit editing the Shortcut.
Re-usable sets of actions aka Functions
I want to be able to declare a function that takes these inputs and optionally return these values.
Fine you can do it with calling other Shortcuts. But it often takes less blocks to just duplicate shit than to deal with reading data from inputs and outputting things in the end
Better type support
All the actions declare their types and stuff and it is kind of integrated. Some places. It should just work everywhere. Like when I have a dictionary I should be able to set the “type” column to a Things Item type
Defer / Schedule actions
We should be able to say “Run this shortcut in 10minutes” or “Run this at 10:15 today”
The widgets should not be based on folders, but rather be able to select them manually
Names should not be unique
I should be able to have multiple shortcuts called “Fuck this shit” in different folders.
Run on different devices
I should be able to pick where something should run. Like “Always run this shortcut where I triggered it” (like it is now) or “Always run this on my iPhone” or “Always run this on my iPhone or iPad Pro”.