I have an iPhone SE running 18.7. I am trying to make a shortcut to open a radio app on my phone, open a list of on-demand programs, and select a specific program. Is this possible, and how do I do it? The shortcuts app doesn’t make sense to me.
The shortcuts app only exposes so-called actions that have been defined by the app developer of an app alongside system-wide actions that have been defined by Apple. You cannot do UI automation, so if you want to open an app and do stuff within it, this would not be possible. However, if the radio app exposes actions that you can use within Shortcuts, you can use those actions to create a shortcut that does useful stuff.
You can check whether the radio app exposes actions for Shortcuts by doing the following:
Open Shortcuts app
Choose the "Create" button (I'm not sure how it's called exactly in English as my device language is set to German)
Go to the end of the content by tapping once with four fingers at the bottom of the screen
Now, you can swipe to the left until you find the radio app. IF you cannot find it there, no actions are exposed by it. Once you've found the app, double-tap it and you can browse the actions for it.
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The shortcuts app only exposes so-called actions that have been defined by the app developer of an app alongside system-wide actions that have been defined by Apple. You cannot do UI automation, so if you want to open an app and do stuff within it, this would not be possible. However, if the radio app exposes actions that you can use within Shortcuts, you can use those actions to create a shortcut that does useful stuff. You can check whether the radio app exposes actions for Shortcuts by doing the following:
A big thank you
thanks for that explanation. I don’t find my radio app listed, so I guess I’m out of luck.