**Introducing the New Shortcuts App: Automating Your Home with NFC Tags**

From the App Store now, when you go to that automation tab, you can create any number of standard home controls that you used to do from the Home app. You can still do that in the Home app or you can do it here in shortcuts. But there's also a new option to create personal rules that are based on your device, such as when it connects to a Wi-Fi network or in our case, when it taps an NFC tag. These little automations will run on the background whenever it happens, so if you connect to a Wi-Fi network, tap an NFC tag, these automations will trigger and control your smart homes.

**Getting Started with the New Shortcuts App**

Once you launch the new shortcuts app, go to the automation tab and tap on the plus button in that top right-hand corner. Then, create a new personal automation. Go down to the bottom and choose NFC as the automation trigger. Tap on the Scan button and hold your phone near your NFC tag. It'll automatically scan the ID and just enter a name such as the device you're naming or just an ID number. Then, tap on the next button in the top right corner.

**Adding Actions to Your Automation**

In this case, we're going to add an action in this case, it's the automation that's gonna run. You could run any sort of automation from this NFC tag. You could make it call somebody send a message play some music whatever you want to do but in this case, in this video, we're going to be looking at home controls so we're going to search for "home" from the top and hit control our home from our list of presented options sometimes it'll replace our home with whatever you've named your home in the Home app. So, it could be control Jeff's home or whatever you've named it.

**Creating a Simple Automation**

Then, choose the senior accessory you want to control such as turning on the fed time seam when you tap this tag. Hit next and you're done that's really it. You just tap on the NFC tag and this command will run. If you want to do something different like perhaps you wanted to control a light so whenever you tap on your light with your phone, the light turns on, happen again, the light turns off, it's still easy to do but in this case, we have to use an if statement to control it.

**Adding Complex Logic to Your Automation**

So, here you can see ours. If the living room table lamp is on, it's going to turn the lamp off otherwise, it'll turn the lamp on. You can get even fancier if you want to control that lamp instead of just turning on and off by the tap. You could have it do more based on the time of day. Just use additional if statements so in our case, if the living room table lamp is on good go to the next step put another if statement in there if it is past 9:00 a.m., set a tube bright 100% white and if it's past 5:00 p.m., set a tube to only 80% and a warm white instead of a bright blue white.

**Creating Complex Automations**

Those are just some of things you can do with just a simple lamp but you don't have to stop there. You can control entire rooms. Perhaps one by a bedside table turns off your bedroom lights and an internship lights on or you could do what we did, put one outside by the fence as we be our home actually put it at waist level whenever I walk out of my house I can just tap my phone to it and as I'm walking the lines will shut thermoset goes into a way mode and lights turn off. The door locks everything gets set as I'm leaving the house and reverses when I come home.

**Conclusion**

I'd love to hear your ideas on what you could do with these little automations. Go get some NFC tags download iOS 13 beta if you want to try the beta or wait till this fall when it finally releases and start creating your own shortcuts then share them below. Download comments for me and everyone else to take a look at I can't wait you guys come up with and let me know of any great ideas over on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're gonna take a look at how to control your home using simple NFC tags welcome everyone it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and we're gonna be messing around with iOS 13 today and the updated shortcuts apps I have here a bag of NFC tag there are tiny little tags they have adhesive on one side and inside is an NFC chip we're gonna use that to read it from our phone and control our home whether it's simply toggling off a light switch or running entire scenes and automations around our home with multiple conditionals so let's start off easy and take a look at how to turn a light on and off with just a simple tap from your iphone if you want to do this project yourself you're gonna need to get yourself some NFC tags now there are tons available many should work and they just need to be blank you don't have to do anything fancy with them and you can order off Amazon that ones that we used we'll put a link down below in the description they're ultra cheap and you get a pile of them so just follow a link in the description if you want to try this for yourself it is extremely easy to do and of course we're gonna walk you through all the steps so let's go ahead and get started now Apple shortcuts app has always been extremely powerful but without I was 13 it gets even more capable in fact they've added an entirely new automation tab within the app and the app comes pre-installed on your device once you update you no longer have to download it from the App Store now when you go to that automation tab you can create any number of standard home controls that you used to do from the home app you can still do that in the home app or you can do it here in shortcuts but there's also a new option to create personal rules that are based on your device such as when it connects to a Wi-Fi network or in our case when it taps an NFC tag these little automations will run on the background whenever it happens so if I connect to a Wi-Fi network to a Bluetooth device tap an NFC tag as soon as that happens it'll run this automation and in our case it's gonna control our smart homes so let's go ahead and open up the shortcuts app and walk you through the steps so once you launch the new shortcuts app go to the automation tab and tap on the plus button in that top right hand corner then create a new personal automation here you're gonna go down to the bottom and choose NFC as the automation trigger then tap on the Scan button and hold your phone near your NFC tag it'll automatically scan the ID and just enter a name such as the device you're naming or just an ID number then tap on the next button in the top right corner and we're going to add an action in this case it's the automation that's gonna run so you could run any sort of automation from this NFC tag you could make it call somebody send a message play some music whatever you want to do but in this case in this video we're going to be looking at home controls so we're gonna search for home right from the top and hit control our home from our list of presented options sometimes it'll replace our home with whatever you've named your home in the home app so it could be control Jeff's home or whatever you've named it then choose the senior accessory you want to control such as turning on the fed time seam when you tap this tag then hit next and you're done that's really it you just tap on the NFC tag and this command will run now if you want to do something different like perhaps you wanted to control a light so whenever you tap on your light with your phone the light turns on happen again the light turns off it's still easy to do but in this case we have to use an if statement to control it so here you can see ours if the living room table lamp is on it's going to turn the lamp off otherwise it'll turn the lamp on you can get even fancier if you want to control that lamp instead of just turning on and off by the tap you could have it do more based on the time of day just use additional if statements so in our case if the living room table lamp is on good go to the next step put another if statement in there if it is past 9:00 a.m. set a tube bright 100% white and if it's past 5:00 p.m. setup to only 80% and a warm white instead of a bright blue white those are just some of things you can do with just a simple lamp but you don't have to stop there you can control entire rooms so perhaps one by a bedside table turns off your bedroom lights and internship lights on or you could do what we did we put one outside by the fence as we be our home actually put it at waist level whenever I walk out of my house I can just tap my phone to it and as I'm walking the lines will shut thermoset goes into a way mode and lights turn off the door locks everything gets set as I'm leaving the house and and reverses when I come home I come home get a little hip check when my arms are full of groceries but my phone in my pocket it's half the NFC tag the door unlocks lights turn on and the thermostat goes back into home mode there are so many different things you can do using both the new shortcuts app as well as the NFC tag and what we've thrown out here today are just a couple options for you there are so many different things you could do and I'd love to hear your ideas so go get some NFC tags download iOS 13 beta if you want to try the beta or wait till this fall when it finally releases and start creating your own shortcuts then share them below download comments for me and everyone else to take a look at I can't wait you guys come up with and let me know of any great ideas over on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU hey everyone did you guys like that video be sure to click on that like button so we can create content that we know that you guys want to see and follow Apple Insider on all social media channels if you want the best prices on any Apple gear check out the Apple Insider price guide that is updated daily and until next time we'll see you latertoday we're gonna take a look at how to control your home using simple NFC tags welcome everyone it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and we're gonna be messing around with iOS 13 today and the updated shortcuts apps I have here a bag of NFC tag there are tiny little tags they have adhesive on one side and inside is an NFC chip we're gonna use that to read it from our phone and control our home whether it's simply toggling off a light switch or running entire scenes and automations around our home with multiple conditionals so let's start off easy and take a look at how to turn a light on and off with just a simple tap from your iphone if you want to do this project yourself you're gonna need to get yourself some NFC tags now there are tons available many should work and they just need to be blank you don't have to do anything fancy with them and you can order off Amazon that ones that we used we'll put a link down below in the description they're ultra cheap and you get a pile of them so just follow a link in the description if you want to try this for yourself it is extremely easy to do and of course we're gonna walk you through all the steps so let's go ahead and get started now Apple shortcuts app has always been extremely powerful but without I was 13 it gets even more capable in fact they've added an entirely new automation tab within the app and the app comes pre-installed on your device once you update you no longer have to download it from the App Store now when you go to that automation tab you can create any number of standard home controls that you used to do from the home app you can still do that in the home app or you can do it here in shortcuts but there's also a new option to create personal rules that are based on your device such as when it connects to a Wi-Fi network or in our case when it taps an NFC tag these little automations will run on the background whenever it happens so if I connect to a Wi-Fi network to a Bluetooth device tap an NFC tag as soon as that happens it'll run this automation and in our case it's gonna control our smart homes so let's go ahead and open up the shortcuts app and walk you through the steps so once you launch the new shortcuts app go to the automation tab and tap on the plus button in that top right hand corner then create a new personal automation here you're gonna go down to the bottom and choose NFC as the automation trigger then tap on the Scan button and hold your phone near your NFC tag it'll automatically scan the ID and just enter a name such as the device you're naming or just an ID number then tap on the next button in the top right corner and we're going to add an action in this case it's the automation that's gonna run so you could run any sort of automation from this NFC tag you could make it call somebody send a message play some music whatever you want to do but in this case in this video we're going to be looking at home controls so we're gonna search for home right from the top and hit control our home from our list of presented options sometimes it'll replace our home with whatever you've named your home in the home app so it could be control Jeff's home or whatever you've named it then choose the senior accessory you want to control such as turning on the fed time seam when you tap this tag then hit next and you're done that's really it you just tap on the NFC tag and this command will run now if you want to do something different like perhaps you wanted to control a light so whenever you tap on your light with your phone the light turns on happen again the light turns off it's still easy to do but in this case we have to use an if statement to control it so here you can see ours if the living room table lamp is on it's going to turn the lamp off otherwise it'll turn the lamp on you can get even fancier if you want to control that lamp instead of just turning on and off by the tap you could have it do more based on the time of day just use additional if statements so in our case if the living room table lamp is on good go to the next step put another if statement in there if it is past 9:00 a.m. set a tube bright 100% white and if it's past 5:00 p.m. setup to only 80% and a warm white instead of a bright blue white those are just some of things you can do with just a simple lamp but you don't have to stop there you can control entire rooms so perhaps one by a bedside table turns off your bedroom lights and internship lights on or you could do what we did we put one outside by the fence as we be our home actually put it at waist level whenever I walk out of my house I can just tap my phone to it and as I'm walking the lines will shut thermoset goes into a way mode and lights turn off the door locks everything gets set as I'm leaving the house and and reverses when I come home I come home get a little hip check when my arms are full of groceries but my phone in my pocket it's half the NFC tag the door unlocks lights turn on and the thermostat goes back into home mode there are so many different things you can do using both the new shortcuts app as well as the NFC tag and what we've thrown out here today are just a couple options for you there are so many different things you could do and I'd love to hear your ideas so go get some NFC tags download iOS 13 beta if you want to try the beta or wait till this fall when it finally releases and start creating your own shortcuts then share them below download comments for me and everyone else to take a look at I can't wait you guys come up with and let me know of any great ideas over on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU hey everyone did you guys like that video be sure to click on that like button so we can create content that we know that you guys want to see and follow Apple Insider on all social media channels if you want the best prices on any Apple gear check out the Apple Insider price guide that is updated daily and until next time we'll see you later\n"