Hello Lorie, I'm not certain if the app will work on your iPad but in order to explore Shortcut, you must first download it from the app store.
So, go to the apps store, on your iPad and search for Shortcuts. If the app will run on your device and OS, you will see it in the store. Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lorie McCloud Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2019 1:51 PM To: 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries Subject: Re: How to make Shortcuts give you an iPad weather forecast, Cult of Mac question. I don't know anything about the shortcuts app. is it on the iPad? mine's an old iPad mini that I can't update any more. can I do it on that? > On Jan 27, 2019, at 12:31 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > How to make Shortcuts give you a weather forecast on iPad By Charlie > Sorrel, 1:00 pm, January 25, 2019 > > Life's a beach - without this iPad weather shortcut. > > The iPad infamously still lacks a built-in weather app. There are > plenty of ways around this - you can ask Siri, you can use the Maps > app to see the weather anywhere, or you can wait for your iPhone to > give you a lock-screen forecast every morning. > Today we add a new method. We'll make a quick shortcut that gets the > weather at your current location, and displays it as a notification. > > How to build a custom weather shortcut > > The weather outside is frightful. > > This is a fun shortcut to build, because it lets you add all kinds of > info to your weather forecast, almost without effort. To begin, launch > the Shortcuts app and tap the button to create a new shortcut. > Then, in the left-hand column, type "weather" in the search bar. This > will show you all the actions that work with weather. The one we're > interested in is Get Current Weather. This is built into the Shortcuts > app. Tap to add it to the workflow panel (the section on the right). > Make sure it's set to get weather at the current location. You can > also set a fixed location if you prefer. > On-demand custom weather forecast > Then, add the Show Notification action. This is where the fun starts. > Tap inside this action, and the keyboard pops up. You can type > anything in there, but you can also add variables. In this case, we > want to add the results of the weather. To do so, tap the little > Weather Conditions widget above the keyboard. It gets pasted into the > notification's body. > Choose from a long list of weather data types. > > Then, tap on this newly pasted widget, and you'll see a list of > available info - location, precipitation chance, high and low > temperatures, humidity and lots more. By adding more of these little > widgets, you can build a custom weather notification. My version shows > the current conditions. You can also choose to build a forecast by > using the weather forecast action instead of the current weather action. > To activate this forecast, you can run it from inside the Shortcuts > app (lame), or run it by tapping its widget in the Shortcuts section > on the Today View (cool). And of course, it works just as well on the > iPhone as on the iPad. > > Follow Cult of Mac's How-To Channel > > Original Article at: > https://www.cultofmac.com/602204/shortcuts-ipad-weather-forecast/ > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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