8 useful IFTTT-recipes for iOS on all occasions

After service in July IFTTT submitted an application for the iPhone, users have the whole bunch of opportunities for productive work. A multitude of channels that can interact with your contacts, photographs, reminders. After activating the channels, you can create new recipes directly in your browser. Today I want to introduce you to a selection of eight different IFTTT-recipes to help automate your routine tasks - from backing up photos and contacts to create reminders of the bad weather.

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A few words about the principle of operation IFTTT

All algorithms are called by recipesThey are based on the triggers that can interact with channels (Camera Roll, Contacts, Dropbox, Gmail, etc.).

Recipes to work, you need to activate the channels in advance. It can be access to the iPhone camera roll and contacts or your username / password from Twitter, Facebook, etc. Activation of channels and the creation of recipes, you can do both with the iPhone, as well as directly from the browser.

I am attaching a link to all the recipes described in this article, but you can easily create their own, repeating my actions (using the same options that are better for you). everything is simple here:

• Hit Create;
• focusing on the icons of these recipes adds a trigger IF;
• similarly indicates the action THEN;
• We point out specific options (album, a list of reminders, tex Tweets, etc);

Modify and customize any recipe for yourself by clicking the button «triangle» ( «play»).

Save all the images from the camera roll to Dropbox

The easiest way to backup that you can think of - is to download all new photos to the cloud. Like Dropbox, but you can also use other services. I created a recipe that will download absolutely all of your photos, but you can change it if you want any of available options: load of specific albums, images with the front camera, the pictures with the main camera, screenshots.

If you prefer to lay all on the shelves - you can create several recipes that will upload your photos according to your criteria.

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POST your photos in social networks

If you are an active user of social networks, you have to like this recipe. Use it to post photos to Twitter, Facebook and the other social networks. My recipe for posting to Twitter is configured as follows: I add the desired photo in the album Tweet and then it will immediately be published on Twitter.

Prikryaplyaemoe message to the photo can be customized, but it will be the standard for all photos.

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Save the completed tasks from the iOS reminders in Google Calendar

Function, which is implemented with the help of this recipe - interesting, but it will be useful only if you meet the following track all of your business. The main objective of this recipe - self-control. For example, it can be used for logging, which will display all of your activities and how fast you perform the tasks.

The recipe works on the following principle: after performing any task she falls into the "completed", and from there straight into your Google-calendar, which will be added as a new event, with an indication of the current date and time.

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Adds an entry to create a new contact to the Calendar

This recipe is similar to the previous - it will add new events to your Google Calendar, just this once will trigger the creation of a new contact. In addition to the date of creation, the new event calendar will also be noted a contact name, telephone number and any other information that you enter when adding a contact.

It is useful to keep track of what time you got to know this or that person. Well, sort of address book backup, in the form of a bonus.

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person an invitation to their LinkedIn network to create a new contact

Another recipe dedicated reacted with contacts. As can be seen from the title - it will send an invitation on LinkedIn person you add to contacts iPhone. For the success of the recipe you need to fill in the Email field when adding a contact. If you are an active LinkedIn users - this recipe will be useful to you.

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Backup iPhone contacts to Google Drive

Backups do not happen much. Better to keep important data to multiple destinations. The backup to iTunes is of course good, but does not prevent duplicate contacts in your Google Drive. After activation of this recipe, all new contacts will be duplicated in a table in your documents to Google Drive. Default IFTTT / iOS folder / which will be placed a table will be created, but you can change it at their discretion.

This recipe has only one drawback, it only works for new contacts, this will not affect existing.

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Create reminders about new content added in the Pocket

Pocket - excellent service to store and organize all interesnoystey and deferred reading. Importantly do not forget to read! To avoid this, you can use this recipe. It works on the same principle - you are adding a new article in the Pocket, and IFTTT immediately creates for you a reminder in iOS.

In this scenario, the likelihood that you will forget about the added note, is greatly reduced.

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Do not forget the umbrella!

Forecasters are constantly mistaken, that they can not deny, but it is better to pass the whole day with an umbrella in a bag than to hit the pouring rain without it. To make it easier, you can automate the process of bad weather warning. In my recipe set Create reminders in the case of the probability of rain, but you can specify any other option (snow, cloudy, clear). You need to specify your city and conditions, which you want to receive an alert - the rest will be IFTTT. If it will rain tomorrow, you will receive a reminder, which will indicate the temperature (min. and max.), and weather conditions (rain, snow, etc.).

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Progress does not stand still - how many opportunities for automation, we came with the advent of IFTTT? A great many! Something for which previously had to make a few extra actions now works on full automatic. We can only keep up with the progress and use all his charms in everyday life. In the case of IFTTT, I can say that it's worth it.

Do you know any more cool recipes? The commentary!