[huijzer]

> on the contrary I'm really disappointed in how long its taking anything to get into production.

I agree. I was thinking about making a Jarvis like bot which should be pretty easy at this point. The main problem was that my iPhone doesn’t easily allow for pressing a button upon which it starts listening. You always need to unlock first at which the whole screen gets unlocked too. Maybe these kind of GUI-focussed interfaces are blocking a lot of ideas? At the same time it’s great that people will come up with new devices and these will compete somewhat with phones.

[Havoc]

The tap on back might work without unlock and i think that can be set to a custom shortcut

[jazzyjackson]

smart, I just played around with it, I can use the shortcuts app to create an action (like turn off the lamp or 'identify music via shazam') and then go to accessibility->touch settings and use double tap to trigger the action.

It works without unlocking but the phone has to be awake, so I can hit the power button once to wake and then double tap the back to trigger a shortcut without unlocking, confirmed to work without needing to identify me via face ID or anything.

There is also an accessibility shortcut for triple-clicking the side button but it only allows for toggling accessibility features.