How to use shortcut instructions

Quick instruction, formerly known as workflow, once belonged to a third-party APP；;

On March 23rd, 20 17, Apple completed the acquisition of workflow. After being acquired by APPle, Workflow was officially renamed as "Quick" App in iOS12;

In the official version of iOS 12. 1.4 released on February 8, 20/kloc-0, the term "shortcut" was renamed as "shortcut instruction" again, and this term has continued to this day.

The Quick Help application can create a personalized shortcut for your favorite application, which includes several steps. You can start with hundreds of examples in the Quick Command Center or create your own shortcuts by dragging and dropping.

Shortcut instructions contain more than 300 built-in basic operations, which can be used with many of your favorite applications, including address book, calendar, map, music, photos, camera, reminder, Safari browser and health, and any application that supports Siri shortcuts.

With the Quick Help application, you can:

* Let Siri get the route home directly, send the estimated arrival time and start listening to the news.

* Add home screen icon for calling others.

* making animated gifs

* Make PDF from Safari browser or any application with * * * enjoyment.

* Click to get the route to the nearest coffee shop.

* Post the song you are listening to on Twitter.

* get all the pictures on the web page

* Send information and attach the latest screen shots.

* and so on ...

Shortcut commands can also be launched from the "Today" widget or search, or let Siri start. You can even add application icons for your favorite shortcuts on the home screen.

Second, what is the use of fast instructions? List of advantages and disadvantages

Apple claims that "quick instructions" can bring infinite possibilities for automatically performing daily operations on iPhone and iPad. Generally speaking, shortcut instructions are actually a bit like WeChat applets, which can realize various functions through some automated operations and scripts.

However, compared with small programs, the development of shortcut instructions is relatively simple and open, so it is not as powerful as pin programs.

Advantages and disadvantages of shortcut instructions:

Advantages: simple installation and use, rich expansion, and open development is much simpler than applets and apps;

Disadvantages: Due to the relatively developed development, the rules of shortcut instructions are mixed, and some shortcut instructions are often invalid and unusable.

In addition, some shortcut instructions, such as deleting short video watermark, are easily influenced by the rules of short video platform and often fail. Simply put, the disadvantage of shortcut instructions is that some rules are relatively unstable.

Third, how to use shortcut instructions

Shortcut commands are mainly composed of "Shortcut Command APP" and "Shortcut Command Rules", in which APP is mainly used to manage the rules of installation, and the setting of shortcut command rules is also carried out in APP.

Before using Shortcut Command, your device must be iOS 12 or higher.

1. It is the first time to download and install the Quick Instruction APP in the app Store.

2. After the APP is installed, various shortcut command rules can be installed, such as Tik Tok watermark removal, iPhone shell screenshot and so on. All the installed shortcut command rules can be managed or set in the shortcut command library of the shortcut command app, as shown in the following figure.

3. How to install shortcut command rules? First of all, the "Quick Command Center" in the Quick Command APP comes with some simple download and installation rules. Find what you like, and then click "Get Shortcut Command" below to complete the download and installation, and then you can find it in the command library, as shown in the figure.

4. Because the shortcut instruction rules are generally too simple and have weak functions, most people who really like to play shortcut instructions download the shortcut instruction rules of third parties online. For example, the "quick encyclopedia" channel of Sesame Science and Technology Network provides a large number of practical quick instructions to download, and each quick instruction also has a detailed download and installation method, which is especially suitable for the introduction of fruit powder.

Installation method:

Open the Safari browser that comes with the iOS device, and then click Get Shortcut Description. After waiting patiently for a period of time, the shortcut command APP will automatically open, as shown in the figure below.

5. After that, you will automatically enter the "Get Shortcut Command Center" page of the Shortcut Command APP. Wait for a while, and you will see the prompt that the rule was successfully installed. Then click to switch to the "shortcut command library" interface, and you will see the shortcut command rules we just installed, as shown in the figure.

You can install other shortcut command rules according to the above method in the future.

Different shortcut instruction rules are used in different ways. For example, the short video watermark shortcut command is generally to copy the video link first, then open the shortcut command APP, run the short video shortcut command rule, and then save the video according to the prompt.

Every quick instruction in Sesame Science and Technology Network Quick Encyclopedia has a specific installation and use tutorial, and Xiaobai can easily get started.

Note: For the URL of shortcut command rules obtained from WeChat or QQ, be sure to copy and paste the URL in Safari browser, Safari browser and Safari browser (the important thing is said three times) for installation. Opening shortcut command links from non-Safari browsers, such as QQ/ WeChat/Headline or other browsers, will cause the download and installation to fail. For example, opening the shortcut command rule link in WeChat will directly jump to the APP Store instead of the installation page. Beginners need to pay special attention to this.

6. How to delete shortcut command rules?

If too many shortcut command rules are installed, some of them will no longer be needed. Deleting shortcut command rules is very simple. In the shortcut command library interface of shortcut command APP, long press any shortcut command rule name. When the icon shakes, check the rule to be deleted, and then click Delete icon in the upper right corner, as shown in the following figure.

If there are too many shortcut command rules installed and you want to delete them all, it is recommended to uninstall the shortcut command APP directly.

Fourth, how to improve the efficiency of using shortcut instructions

The introduction of shortcut instructions, to put it bluntly, is to improve the use efficiency of iOS devices. In order to use shortcut instructions more conveniently, you can also use the following skills flexibly.

1. Add a shortcut description to the desktop.

For some commonly used shortcut command apps, if you want to open them quickly, you can add shortcut command rules to the desktop. Simply put, you can create a desktop shortcut for a shortcut, so that you can quickly find the key to open it.

Setting method:

First, open the shortcut command APP, find the common shortcut commands that need to be added to the desktop, click "..." in the shortcut command rule in the upper right corner to enter the setting interface, then click the "share icon" above, find it in the pop-up box at the bottom, and click "Add to Home Screen", as shown in the following figure.

Then in the prompt page, click the "Share icon" at the bottom, and then click the "Add to Home Screen" that pops up at the bottom to confirm the operation, as shown in the figure.

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