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According to Fjorden developer Florian Bürger on Twitter, Apple's next iOS 15.4 software update has discreetly incorporated a huge quality of life feature for its Shortcuts app: the option to mute the highly unpleasant alerts for personal automations that users have set up on their devices. For those who don't utilize Shortcuts on a daily basis, the automations feature is one of the most helpful and powerful tools available to Apple users.
At its core, it allows users to configure basic "if / then" triggers for a variety of conditions on an iPhone, such as a specific time of day, arrival at a location, receiving an email or text from a specific contact, joining a Wi-Fi network, tapping an NFC tag, opening an app, or when your phone reaches a certain level of battery life. When used correctly, Shortcuts is incredibly useful, allowing you to do things like disable notifications when your Kindle app is open so you can read in peace, automatically turning on low power mode when your phone's battery falls below 50%, or disabling rotation lock when you open the Apple TV app so your shows properly enter full-screen mode.
However, until iOS 15.4, Apple had made the tool essentially worthless for ordinary operations by implementing obligatory alerts every time the parameters were met. The latest version, however, corrects this by providing a slider that lets users to hide such alerts. This makes Apple's Shortcut automations far more practical for day-to-day chores by removing the spammy messages that used to show every time you activated one. To turn off the notifications, go to the automation and turn off the new "notify when run" toggle that appears if you're using the newest iOS 15.4 beta.
You'll have to do it for each notification, but once you've done it correctly, the Shortcuts notification bar for your automations will never annoy you again. There are a few caveats: the new setting is exclusively for Shortcuts automations, not all Shortcuts. That implies that if you use Shortcuts as a workaround for custom iOS icons, you won't be able to remove the pop-up banner when you start an app using that approach, for example. iOS 15.4 also includes the ability to utilize Face ID while wearing a mask on newer iPhones, as well as a host of new emoji. The upgrade is still in public beta right now.
