Proposal: Is Low Power Mode On needs a delay #136
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In Actions 2.6.0, there is a |
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Installed the update. By experiment I narrowed down to 20ms with a new “wait ms” action. Ten ms also works but unreliable: ≈¼ of all switches are failing. Set 5 ms and automation fails just randomly. I’ve stopped at 30 ms as it seems timings are floating to some extent so 20 ms also may have rare misses, although I didn't see them so far. This 30ms is far less I can spot by naked eye as it equals to 2 screen refreshes at 60Hz or 4 at 120 Hz. |
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Thanks for testing. I'll add a 30ms delay in the next update. |
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Are you going to make it configurable in action’s UI? I’m asking because I have doubts this delay is the same across devices of different generations. |
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No. I want to keep it simple. If it doesn't work for other people, they can use the |
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Hello there,
I'm currently facing an issue with the "Is Low Power Mode On" action: when the action runs from Shortcuts' automation, it does not always detect a proper state. To get it to work correctly a "Wait" action is needed before it.
Without a such delay, the action returns a state that is preceding the switching. I believe this happens due to delays in the propagation of the state to apps. Currently, a delay using the "Wait" action is a solution but it's unnecessarily long and pretty notable when automation is running.
Personally, I see two options here:
I would prefer to have an option as a part of the "Is Low Power Mode On" action as it's connected to how the iOS delivers state changes to apps. If this is a known and expected system behavior, the user then needs a hint about it and an option inside the action to avoid it without bringing an additional action.
Would be nice to hear alternative ideas or perhaps a better solution.
Thank you.
Actions 2.5.2 (42) - com.sindresorhus.Actions
iOS 16.5.1
iPhone14,2
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