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...