Workflow is now part of Apple and completely free to use. High time to get to know this handy app better with some practical Workflow tips.
Workflow tips: 8 practicalities in a row
Workflow is an app that has had a fanatical group of users for years. By making smart use of the service, the way in which you perform actions on your iPhone becomes a lot more efficient. With the right Workflows you automate intermediate steps, so that you only have to tap a button so that Workflow executes multiple steps. You can start these Workflows from the app, although the widget or Apple Watch app is a lot faster.
Apple recently acquired Workflow and made the app free. Customers who bought the app in the past months will get their money back. Very neat from Apple. Below we have listed a number of practical Workflows for you. You can immediately add it (in the style of this app) and use it by tapping the link under each Workflow.
1. Let me know what time you will be home
It is not necessary to send the same message every evening when you get in the car or jump on your bike. Instead, it is better to create a Workflow that lets you let your partner or roommates know that you are almost home at the touch of a button. You do this by taking over the actions below. – Use this Workflow
2. Calculate an appropriate tip
Never know how much tip is appropriate in a restaurant? Use this Workflow and the app will calculate an appropriate tip based on a percentage. After entering the total price, choose a percentage for the tip. The app will then show the total amount including tip. – Use this Workflow
3. Share your location via a message
Are you meeting with someone but don’t feel like explaining where you are exactly? Share your location with a handy url that the other person can open directly in Apple Maps. The recipient can then request the fastest route to your location at the touch of a button. – Use this Workflow
Navigate home
Regardless of where you hang out; sooner or later you want to go home again. The only thing you have to enter when setting up this Workflow is your home address. The app then combines your current location with your address to plan a route. At the touch of a button, this Workflow plans the fastest route home via Apple Maps. – Use this Workflow
5. Find and share a poison
Giphy is full of thousands of GIFs, but sharing them is often a bit too much work. With this Workflow you immediately start a search for a gif, which you can then send via an app of your choice. The standard iOS share menu is used for this. – Use this Workflow
6. Download a file
If you copy a url, you can directly download the linked file with this Workflow and save it in iCloud Drive. Before the action is complete, the app will ask you where to save the download. Think of images, videos, PDF files and more. – Use this Workflow
7. Make a top 25 of your favorite Apple Music songs
Workflow also gets along well with Apple Music. For example, you can easily create a playlist of the top 25 songs you have listened to the most. Handy if you want to quickly listen to good music, but don’t feel like compiling a list manually. – Use this Workflow
8. Make a to-do list for the weekend
Those chores around the house don’t do themselves up. So map them out with this Workflow and compile a list of tasks that will be added directly to the Reminders app on your iPhone. That makes it very difficult to ‘forget’ them again this Saturday. – Use this Workflow
Also read: 6 Ways Workflow Makes Your iPhone Smarter