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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You underestimate how muh easier is to click tbe Action Button vs dragging the Control Center down. Specially one handed or carrying stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not just that, but a lot of the most important functionality in control center is further hidden under long presses. Takes FOREVER to bring up a list of Bluetooth devices or WiFi networks or the hotspot/airdrop settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They should add an “open control center” shortcut action for this purpose.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s honestly my favorite feature. I always have to turn my WiFi fully off when driving or it auto connects to my dash cam and stops maps and music. Since you can only temporarily disable it (idk the technical term) in control center I’d have to unlock>settings>wifi>off and again with Bluetooth. Now I can hold the action button>select shortcut and it’s done. I also have a timer set for my lunch break and before I’d forget to turn it on because I didn’t want to stop in a walkway to go through menus. Now action button>start preset timer. It’s a small time saver but it’s nice for the things you use often.

The con for me is I accidentally press it when trying to turn the volume up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

you can turn off the auto connection to your dashcam's wifi connection in the wifi settings. just turn off auto-join and that's that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bruuuuuhhh charge your phone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, just did that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Some people just like to live on the edge lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But the OTHER half validate the idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, some are kind of redundant but I plan on swapping them out as I think of more convenient shortcuts to put in their place.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is cool. Need to do this to my action button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How can you create the toggle shortcut on/off.

Can you share?

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here's how I did it.

  1. Open Shortcuts App
  2. Tap the + button in the top right corner.
  3. Tap the Add Action Button.
  4. Tap in the Search Field and Search "Set Silent Mode".
  5. At the top of the screen it will say Turn Silent Mode On.
    1. Tap the word "Turn" and select "Toggle"
    2. Go to the search bar at the bottom of the page and Search "Vibrate Device"
  6. Tap Done in the top right hand corner.

Skip step 5b if you don't want a vibration notification. Thats all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks! You’re a life saver!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That’s cool. Feels very Samsung with the color/icon scheme though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Anyway to stop the autostart of „mybmw“ app when starting the car?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Willing to share your automation shortcut? I’d love to use it as a template for my own. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You rich. Having a BMW, 8 sleep and ip15

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Really?

The BMW app works for most of the cars, even the old old ones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Bruh why do people always say this shit. The median income of new BMW purchasers is $125,000. Credit isn’t easy to come by anymore anyways.

I know it’s Reddit’s fantasy that everyone who drives nice cars and has nice shit is just in massive debt but it’s by and large not true.

You have to be pretty well off to even get approved for a loan on a new BMW even if the car itself is a stretch for you

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Is there a way to display more than 8?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

…and here I am still using the action button to toggle silent.

Great stuff! Will definitely give this a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You gotta make it have a menu like this in portrait mode but trigger the camera if horizontal. That’s the move.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Or just use control center lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Congrats you mimicked Android. No hate please, I have both and am waiting for my latest iPhone and will follow your lead. Just stating a fact, it has been a glaring unnecessary omission , no reason it's not default like this by now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh this is cool, I’ve been using it in the list mode, so it just shows each item listed from top to bottom. I really like this way. It’s crazy so many ppl don’t realize the power of this button lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I did the same, but with a menu. https://i.imgur.com/q2TkAs5.jpg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dumb question, how do you make the shortcuts in a folder not show up as a list?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nice. So why not share the shortcut?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you so much for this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ouf. Those icons giving me hard Android vibes…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you could share the link for this that would be much appreciated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So this actually isn’t a single shortcut running, I created a folder in the shortcuts app and then created these 8 individual shortcuts within that folder. Then I mapped the action button to open that shortcuts folder when pressed and this is the result.

These shortcuts were super simple to make, with most just being a single action within the shortcut.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can you share a screenshot of how you configured that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Is there an advantage to using some of these shortcuts? I mean the camera and the flashlight ones for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You have gloves on that aren't touch-capacitive

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is much nicer looking than the List method, but is there any way to make it show more than 8?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don’t believe so, I have the action button opening a shortcuts folder that contains these 8 shortcuts. If you add any more than 8 it will show you the first 8 in the folder, in the order you have them in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shame it limits to only 8, but a nice use of the Action Button all the same, thanks for sharing

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried to do the shortcut folder thing but I was unable to customize the icons

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This honestly should have been the default for action button. Having a favorites list trumps a single action.

Great thinking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

How do you find the my bmw app? I’m about to get a new ‘23 beemer and wondering what the capabilities are

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well. I will try this. I’ve been using the Camera and love that I can long press to bring up and then use the button to snap pics. The way the camera works as a shortcut here, I have to use the actual button on the screen. 😒 but I like having multiple options.

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