Has anyone had any luck with invoking Shortcuts via Siri commands on the Apple Watch? Even the simplest of Shortcuts simply give the error “Sorry, Shortcuts is currently unavailable on Apple Watch.”
Of course IFTTT can get triggered from the Watch. That, perhaps via Pushcut, gets an automation kicked off on iOS (or anywhere else). However, the Pushcut notification would require you to tap on the phone.
Yeah, there are some neat workarounds. Native Siri Shortcuts on the Watch was a feature I was looking forward to, though, and it seems to have disappeared.
After you add a shortcut to Siri on your iOS device, you can run the shortcut by asking Siri your personal phrase on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch or HomePod.
It doesn’t seem like a non-issue to Apple if they’re still advertising it as a feature, nor should it be an impossible fix.
I don’t get why Apple think we all want to talk to our watch; I’d much prefer to tap a shortcut button as was possible with the old Workflow. I really miss that.
Feeling the pinch with this one. I just duplicated my time-tracking Shortcut (that works by appending to a CSV file) using IFTTT, since I want to leave my phone at home more and just travel using the Watch (I’ll test today whether or not IFTTT works on a cellular Apple Watch without a tethered phone).
However, the UI of IFTTT is absolutely painful to use. If anyone knows of any better solutions for automation - or even decent proprietary time-tracking apps where I can export as CSV - I’d love to know. Unfortunately Timery doesn’t have an Apple Watch app…