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I can’t believe I’m even engaging this post, but… what’s the use-case? Gotta say, this sounds extra creepy.

@just_another_person Turning on or off nightlights. Changing iOS focus (e.g., sleeping). Activating outside security monitoring… all kinds of interesting use cases.

Can one change iOS focus modes from home assistant?

@meltedcheese @spitfire no, it can’t set the iPhone focus but instead it makes sense to detect when sleep focus is over (alarm is over).

@jenzi @spitfire You can set focus with a shortcut. So the question is whether you can open a shortcut…

@meltedcheese @spitfire Not with an automaton. None of that is possible. You simply can't fire an action on iOS.

@jenzi @spitfire So I’ve been told, but I bet there is some really ugly way of doing it.

Maybe via some of the Assistance features.

What about sending a notification to the iOS device, have Siri intercept it and trigger a shortcut or automation that is selected by the text in the notification?

Maybe Siri reads the notification aloud and another on-device app listens to Siri and triggers an automation? We already know Siri and Alexa will interact verbally (at least on two devices).