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Shortcuts convinced me to go to iOS. Android has similar stuff but they're all kinda futzy and hacky in unfortunate ways.

It's a bit surprising to me that, say, Zapier hasn't skunkworked up something like Shortcuts that could be crossplatform. It's not immediately their core competency but being able to roll out low code UIs across employees of a phone through that would make a lot of sense.

The unfortunate thing with iOS is that while there's some secret stuff with deep linking ultimately less stuff is exposed than what one might entirely want. But I _was_ able to make a "fake" Find My for my bluetooth headphones in about 5 minutes (bluetooth disconnect -> record lat/lon into a text file on my phone) and that was fun.



I should look at iOS again - every so often I try something like this in Android and people commonly suggest Tasker, but it's such a PITA to write anything in Tasker that I usually abandon the project.


Same, never got Tasker to do anything useful for me (though it's been a while, granted)


they have a new Gemini integration, pretty useful for me now.




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