Alarm Setters
These are shortcuts for setting different types of alarms. I'm not that good with doing math in my head, so I made these to let me skip having to do math when setting alarms. One is for setting multiple alarms with the same interval apart, and the other one is for setting an alarm for a certain interval of time from now.
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Alarm Helper
Sometimes I have a need to set an alarm for an 3 hours and 30 minutes starting from a slightly different time every day, and sometimes starting from a time in the past. This lets you easily set this kind of alarm without doing any mental math.
How to use
How to use
When you run the shortcut, it will ask a series of questions:
- What time did the event start?
- How many hours will the event take?
- How many minutes?
- Do you want the alarm to go off a few minutes early?
- Do you want to give the alarm a name?
It performs the calculations to figure out what time the alarm should be, then it creates that alarm.
How it works
How it works
The shortcut collects the answers to the questions and saves them as variables. It uses the math values to do the calcuation to find the desired time, then it creates an alarm with those values.
Multiple Alarms
This shortcut walks you through setting up multiple alarms with the same interval of time between them. This is good for things like giving medications or feeding a pet, when you need to do it a certain number of hours or minutes apart and a certain number of times.
How to use
How to use
When you run the shortcut, it will ask a series of questions:
- How many times would you like the alarm to go off?
- How many hours apart should the alarms be?
- How many minutes apart should the alarm be?
- What time do you want to start from?
- Do you want to give the alarms a name?
Then it will use this information to generate the alarms.
How it works
How it works
After collecting the user's values, the shortcut runs a "For each" loop for the number of alarms requested. For each alarm, it performs the calculations to find the right time, then it generates an alarm.
How to get started with Shortcuts
If you have iOS 13, you already have the Shortcuts app. That means that if you're on your iPhone or iPad right now, you can just click the Download button to download a shortcut. If you're not on your phone, you can email the link to yourself to download it later.
You can can start using most shortcuts right away, unless they work with another app that you need to have installed. That will be indicated on the in the post above. Once you have downloaded a shortcut, it belongs to you and you can make any changes you like. The shortcuts I make and publish here don't send any data back to me and I don't make any money from publishing them.
Once you have download a shortcut you can choose how to run it. These are your options:
- When you want to run a shortcut, open your Shortcuts app and all the shortcuts in your library will be there to choose from. Just tap on it.
- To save the step of navigating to your Shortcuts app you can add a shortcut to your iPhone’s home screen so it’s easily accessible.
- Some shortcuts will automatically show up in your phone’s Share menu under “Shortcuts”.
- In the shortcut’s settings you can “Add to Siri” by recording a phrase that will trigger it. Later you can say “Hey Siri” followed by that phrase and Siri will run that shortcut for you.
- You can also set up shortcuts to run automatically in the Automations tab in the Shortcuts app. You can select from a good variety of triggers such as "When my wake up alarm stops" or "When I arrive at work".