Apple’s upcoming iOS 15.4 software program replace seems to have quietly added an enormous high quality of life change for its Shortcuts app: the flexibility to disable the extremely annoying notifications for private automations that customers have arrange on their units, as noticed by Fjorden developer Florian Bürger on Twitter.

For those that don’t use Shortcuts usually, the automations function is likely one of the most helpful and highly effective instruments that Apple offers its customers entry to. At its coronary heart, it lets customers arrange fundamental “if / then” triggers for a wide range of situations on an iPhone, be it a selected time of day, arriving at a location, getting an e-mail or textual content from a selected contact, becoming a member of a Wi-Fi community, tapping an NFC tag, opening an app, or when your cellphone hits a sure degree of battery life.

Used correctly, Shortcuts is extremely helpful, permitting issues like disabling notifications when your Kindle app is open so you possibly can learn in peace, mechanically turning on low energy mode when your cellphone’s battery dips beneath 50 %, or disabling rotation lock while you open the Apple TV app so your exhibits enter full-screen mode correctly.

But up till iOS 15.4, Apple had beforehand rendered the function nearly unusable for frequent duties by instituting obligatory notifications each single time the situations have been triggered. The new replace fixes that, although, by including a toggle that enables customers to disable these notifications makes Apple’s Shortcut automations vastly extra usable for day-to-day duties by permitting you to take away the spammy notifications that used to look each time you triggered one.

To disable the notifications, merely faucet on the automation and change off the brand new “notify when run” toggle that’ll seem in case you’re operating the newest iOS 15.4 beta. You’ll need to do it for every notification, however when you’ve set it up proper, you’ll by no means be bothered by the Shortcuts notification bar to your automations once more.

There are just a few caveats right here, although: the brand new setting is solely for Shortcuts automations, not all Shortcuts. That implies that in case you’re utilizing Shortcuts as a workaround for customized iOS icons, there’s nonetheless no technique to take away the pop-up banner while you open an app with that methodology, for instance.

iOS 15.4 additionally provides the choice to make use of Face ID on newer iPhones whereas carrying a masks and a slew of recent emoji. The replace remains to be at the moment in public beta however ought to see a broad launch within the coming weeks — hopefully with these thrilling new options nonetheless obtainable.