6 USEFUL Apple TV Siri Shortcut Ideas + How To Setup!

➡️ What Apple TV Siri Shortcuts do you use? For more ideas check out this playlist: https://geni.us/SiriShortcuts

Is there a way I can make one of the buttons on the Apple TV remote open an installed app?

Great stuff. Any best suggest as to what additional steps I could take within "I'm getting a snack", so that when I'm back to my viewing area and ready to watch content again, that my lights then turn back off and the TV plays to reactivate the viewing content on the tv? I keep messing up this step.

I didn’t set up any shortcuts, but if I say play or pause or skip, or open an app, etc., etc. the Apple TV does this automatically.

Why do a “Play/Pause” when you have direct access from Control Center?

Is there a way to create a short cut that wakes up the apple tv, opens youtube, and plays a specific youtube video in it?

I couldn’t get this to work for anything at all. Weird

Great video

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Is there anyway to design a shortcut to mute an apple tv?

❤Thx bro, I have nanoleaf for backlight too, wondering how to set the 4D mirroring light after waking up TV😂 also I found myself couldn't set the light off after turning off TV 😢 any advice?

Very detailed information. When creating a shortcut is there a way to save the Apple TV name in a variable incase it changes or you can use 1 shortcut for all your devices. I don’t want it to ask every time as I use my main one 90% of the time.

Hi, nice video, thanks. I have a question, do you know if there is a shortcut to set the Apple TV off in a x time?

Thank you

I noticed that your apple remote has some type of cool cover on it? What is it? It seems to give in a little more heft. Thank you so much for your videos. I've learned so much and have began setting mine up. You are a rock star

Is it possible to create a morning briefing shortcut that automatically runs at a certain time every day? Currently, I have a HomeKit scene set up for my home that turns on the lights and Apple TV at 7:15 am. I was wonderingssible to have a weather app displayed on the TV after the scene if it's also po runs.

Wow. A modern tech guy that's main phone is an iPhone 7/8 respect bro

I appreciate your effort into trying to figure out useful things to do with the little tools that Apple provided but I don't see myself using any of these. I think they got so close to making something useful but stopped short of it. IMO the main problem is the inconsistencies between apps. Eg I tried to do a "what did they say" shortcut, to rewind a few secs and turn on the subs for a minute, but it didn't work on 3rd party players... I like the snack time one though, I just don't have enough lights automated yet, for it to be useful to me...

That morning briefing shortcut makes me rethink my HomePod morning briefing shortcut. Pretty sweet!

Great info on all the shortcut functions for AppleTV. Is it still true that you can't have the AppleTV directly open a specific movie or video in a specific video app? E.G. creating a shortcut that will open Disney and immediately start playing an episode of the Mandalorian?

I still see many people preferring to use the Roku streaming media player because it has an API that allows that level of integration and some smart home platforms fully support it.

Interestingly, I noticed that Home Assistant stated that do support these kinds of "deep links" with AppleTV app and media content. Haven't tried it yet, but wondering why HA can do it but you can't do it with Apple's own Shortcut system?

(I would be glad to learn if this is no longer true, but haven't found anything that shows how to do it directly with Apple Shortcuts at this time?)

This is very informative!

Awesome videos sorry I’m so late

1:55 I have an old iPhone X laying around if I created a shortcut on that, would it work even if my main phone isn’t on the same network?