Not really automatic, is it?
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So it seems to be impossible to create an automation task on the iPhone for certain events unless you manually allow the task to run. I can automatically send a text message to Phil every day at 4am saying "Wake up, you filthy monkey!", but can't automatically turn on airplane mode when I arrive home. The second one asks me whether to run it and there's no option to disable this. Defeats the purpose of having a stupid automation in the first place. (I don't want to do any of these, just examples) If you look at all the events that don't allow automatic execution, all are something that are a "security risk" in the sense that you can use them to blow things up remotely. Or something similar. Am I imagining things or is someone at Apple super paranoid?
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So it seems to be impossible to create an automation task on the iPhone for certain events unless you manually allow the task to run. I can automatically send a text message to Phil every day at 4am saying "Wake up, you filthy monkey!", but can't automatically turn on airplane mode when I arrive home. The second one asks me whether to run it and there's no option to disable this. Defeats the purpose of having a stupid automation in the first place. (I don't want to do any of these, just examples) If you look at all the events that don't allow automatic execution, all are something that are a "security risk" in the sense that you can use them to blow things up remotely. Or something similar. Am I imagining things or is someone at Apple super paranoid?
Nope, you're not alone. I work with a guy that has a race tracking app on Android and Apple. In Android, he has a timer and every time the timer goes off, Android gets the GPS, does some math and goes back to sleep. This is great for battery life. On Apple, this isn't possible. The OS will trigger a GPS event when the device has moved an undisclosed amount and the app can receive the update. This means that the OS is sampling GPS fairly often to decide when to kick off the event. Its the best that Apple offers...
Hogan
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So it seems to be impossible to create an automation task on the iPhone for certain events unless you manually allow the task to run. I can automatically send a text message to Phil every day at 4am saying "Wake up, you filthy monkey!", but can't automatically turn on airplane mode when I arrive home. The second one asks me whether to run it and there's no option to disable this. Defeats the purpose of having a stupid automation in the first place. (I don't want to do any of these, just examples) If you look at all the events that don't allow automatic execution, all are something that are a "security risk" in the sense that you can use them to blow things up remotely. Or something similar. Am I imagining things or is someone at Apple super paranoid?
Indivara wrote:
Am I imagining things or is someone at Apple super paranoid?
You'd think it's your phone, you can do whatever you want with it, right? People complain when Windows doesn't let them do something they want (or does something they don't want it to), as if it's now Microsoft's computer, not theirs. iPhones were never theirs to begin with.
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Indivara wrote:
Am I imagining things or is someone at Apple super paranoid?
You'd think it's your phone, you can do whatever you want with it, right? People complain when Windows doesn't let them do something they want (or does something they don't want it to), as if it's now Microsoft's computer, not theirs. iPhones were never theirs to begin with.
But someone went to the extra trouble of blocking specific automations. I bet the t-word was uttered quite a lot during the design and testing of these. I’m not really complaining, if they want to not implement certain features, then so be it. I just found it curious that they considered these security risks. If that’s the reason. Maybe there’s some other explanation. [Shortcut automation does not have the opt… - Apple Community](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255047088) Unrelated, came across a cool use for automations [Use This Automation To Protect Your iPhone If Stolen While Unlocked – Matthew Cassinelli](https://matthewcassinelli.com/apple-shortcuts-iphone-automation-protect-stolen-unlocked/)