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[iSRS]

I've done many of these, as well as ⌘ (cmd) and  (apl).

[DCJ001]

Or you can make it even easier and use the dictation feature.

[rgetter]

I found this to be a useful workaround when iOS 6 broke a couple of shortcut apps I was using to help with a non-secure (captive portal) wireless authentication page I have to deal with at the college where I work. If there's noting particularly secret about the password, you can include it in the shortcut string and copy/paste it into the field. (Shortcuts may not work in password fields.)

[trent54]

Shortcuts is great when it works I hope it is part of bug fixes in iOS 6.1

[DonSmith]

Good ideas. But maybe your shortcuts need shortcuts. Thinking further, it would seem easier to, for example, use ee for email, or eee for the second email, and so forth. '5m' for 'I'll be there in five minutes', L8 for 'Running late'. Or maybe L85 for 'I'm running five minutes late', L855 for 'I'm running ten minutes late' and so on. As long as you're not using too many shortcuts, why not CC for 'Can't talk now'? Its easier to repeat the same key when possible.

[danmusician]

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Or you can make it even easier and use the dictation feature.

Except that when it doesn't get a word or two, it takes more time to edit than just to type it in the first place.

Case in point, I used dictation for the above sentence - had to make three edits.

[baronson]

I would like to create a shortcut for my signature block which is several lines (name, new line street address, new line, city, state, zip, new line phone, new line FAX number, new line email address.) Is there any way to do this without having to create a short cut for each line?

[fark]

omw (On my way!) is included in the default shortcut set by Apple as an example.

I have shortcuts for "See you soon," "Keep me posted," "Can't text, driving" (a bit of an oxymoron, but it's safer to type ctd than a real reply), "Can't answer, in meeting," and more like that.

[josephf]

how about just using siri?

[daniel2828_MW]

@josephf

Exactly. Few people take advantage of Siri.

[axello]

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Or you can make it even easier and use the dictation feature.

Which works rather badly if you are not a native North American English speaker.

[dustininsf]

A far better shortcut to use for your email address is: @@ Unlike 'em' (which could be the beginning of 'emphasize' or the ending of 'postmortem'), you're rarely going to use @@ in normal communication, and because email addresses all contain an @, it's easy to remember. If you have more than one email address, you can use @@1, @@2, etc., as needed (even better: @ and the numerals are on the secondary keyboard, so no switching back and forth!).

[prmorel]

It used to work on my iPhone4. The shortcuts are still there. Shortcuts are still "on" but they do not work anymore. It may be related to IOS6, but I'm not sure.