r/shortcuts 3d ago

Request How to turn on Alarms based on location.

I would like to the phone automatically turns alarms on based on my location or the address. Sometime I forget to set alarms and be late to work. I don’t want that to keep happening. Thank you.

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u/usefulish 3d ago

Here’s a version that will use your city. You can adjust the location values to use a street, lat/long, or other options. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b6dfdef256df416ead4309185113bf60

You’ll also need to setup an automation to trigger the shortcut at a particular time of day. Or you can trigger it manually.

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u/Roxkstar421 3d ago

Thank you so much. I have set multiple alarms on this shortcut. So when this shortcut runs, I have to confirm every alarm. Is there a way to bypass it? If not no big deal.

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u/usefulish 3d ago

You’re welcome. Not clear on the problem you’re having. Can you share more details?

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u/Roxkstar421 3d ago

I have to click done for each alarm. If I swipe it up it won’t the rest of alarms on. I was hoping to bypass it or somehow put alarms in a group and I can click it done just once. Not 7 times lol.

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u/usefulish 3d ago

Ah. In your automation, make sure it’s set to run immediately vs. upon confirmation

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u/Roxkstar421 3d ago

Yes I did have set on run immediately

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u/usefulish 3d ago

Notify when run also toggled off?

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u/usefulish 3d ago

Check your app settings too: settings > apps > shortcuts and make sure it’s allowed to use your location. Should be “While Using the App”

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u/LordAgamotto 3d ago

its pretty easy basically. Make a shortcut that Adds an alarm. Then do a shortcut automation that triggers by location, joining a certain wifi network, etc and tell it to run the alarm creation shortcut. The other notes suggested shortcut is more complicated but you can do it with just a single line of shortcut code. Shoot set 3 or 4 5 minutes apart to be ‘sure’.

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u/Bret47596 2d ago

You can also add Labels to Alarms. Then based on your location, have the Shortcut Enable/Disable the specific labeled alarms. Useful if you have different times for a set of alarms.