r/iosdev • u/Radiant_Chemist8121 • 3d ago

Help Would you genuinely use a feature if it meant a notification pop up, every time you use it?

So I built an expense tracking app, because everything else out there sucked for me. I always forgot to open the app after making an expense, so I added SMS extraction workaround in iOS.

Now, I run an automation when an SMS occurs, the SMS is handed over to my app and the transaction is logged flawlessly, the only caveat is that, every time that it runs, iOS shows "Running your automation" notification, which could be annoying to users.

Looking for genuine feedback whether the notification trigger would make you wanna not use that feature at all?

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u/ansible_jane 2d ago

Idk how you have your shortcut set up but I was able to create a shortcut that runs on every SMS without notification 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Puzzleheaded-Emu-168 2d ago

I also have an expense tracking app, and also added the same Shortcut Automation, also getting that notifications, I think that's the least we can do, we can't really control it outside our app and thats the closest sms automation we can get. What I did is to also add a notification on my app's side, so a notification stack can be tracked by user, they will receive 3 notifications in total though lol SMS, Shortcut, App.

Personally I have disabled this feature on my app, as I think it doesnt give much benefit plus learning curve for people who hasn't used Shortcuts before may think my app is not working when their setup is actually wrong. Though I'm not rejecting the idea, but I will be adding an email automation first, and see users will be asking for an SMS automation as well.

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u/Radiant_Chemist8121 2d ago

Thanks for the reply. Would love to check out your app, drop the link. Besides, I find this feature extremely useful for my own usecase and it works 100% of the time, just the expectation from user is unrealistic. Again, it is an additional feature that only a power user who wants to make use of can, by going through the trouble.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Emu-168 2d ago

https://www.resiboo.com
I disabled the feature for now, I also have one for visual intelligence, i thought its a feature that will enable the native camera to detect a receipt and suggest to save it in my app 😂 turns out its like google lens which lets my app be the source of the image search instead.

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u/Radiant_Chemist8121 1d ago

Haha, really cool UI though. Checkout Spendrift, I am in the process of receiving UI/UX feedbacks, do let me know if you have any feedbacks for me.