How IFTTT Can Make Your Phone Smarter and Your Life Easier

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The Wonder of Tech is pleased to welcome Kwanga Akura as a guest author. Kwanga explains how you can make the most of IFTTT (If This Then That) on your phone. These tips and tricks can help automate tasks to make your life easier. 

Today’s mobile devices are magnificent, they are faster, smarter and a lot more efficient as compared to earlier models. As become more advanced, developers have devised ways to make the experience much more fun and engaging, with lots of different apps hitting the market each day. One of these apps that takes mobile devices as well as their automation to a whole new level is IFTTT.

IFTTT, meaning “if this then that,” is a productivity tool that allows you to use “applets” that trigger certain events. The applets cause events to take place when certain conditions are met, as in if this then that.

Using these applets is pretty simple and fun, and can help make your life a lot easier. You can create your own applets or use ones others have created.

Here are some amazing applets that could definitely make your life easier:

For example, you could use an applet to notify you when NASA releases information about some new discovery. Bloggers could connect their WordPress sites to update social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter with a link post to the latest blog post. The possibilities are limitless.

Also see, => IFTTT- Tech to Make Your Life Easier! (Note that applets used to be called “recipes” in IFTTT.)

IFTTT is a free service with apps for:

• IFTTT app for iPhone and iPad
• IFTTT app for Android

To enjoy these handy applets you have to get some ideas about how to use IFTTT. So what are the best ways to use IFTTT to make your phone act smarter than it already is?

Use IFTTT to Automatically Manage Your Tasks

One great way to make your phone smarter and more efficient to manage your schedules and activities on the IFTTT app. You could carry out a variety of tasks using the Todoist applet ranging from managing calendar events, creating an applet to tell you to wear light clothing if forecast for the next day involves hot weather or remind yourself to read a certain book. The possibilities are limitless. This allows your mobile device to stay on top of things and guide your activity throughout the day. Feel free to experiment with other services too (like Beeminder).

Keep Up-to-date with News and Trends

With over 29 news services on its app, IFTTT has made it easy to automate news tasks on your phone. IFTTT allows your phone to be smarter by updating you with latest news from some of the most prestigious news agencies from all around the world, on topics such as science, government, business, sports, world news and more.

For example, you can run an applet that tells your Android phone to automatically set the NASA picture of the day as your wallpaper or notify you each time an astronaut enters space. Get an alert every time the President of the United States signs a bill into law.

These applets literally allow your phone to know when and how to tell you about the latest news in your chosen niche of interest.

Let IFTTT Guide You to Healthy Habits

What to get healthier? Check out IFTTT applets for healthy habits. From setting your phone to remind you to go to bed early if you stayed up late the night before, to getting a daily update from health services of your choice, using IFTTT can make your phone smarter. Other more complex tasks, such as setting the phone to dim the lights to remind you of your daily meditation routine, are also possible on your phone.

These are just more ways of instructing your phone to act in a smarter way to kelp you keep you healthier.

Use IFTTT to Automate Your Social Media Accounts

Need to save time? Why not try customizing and automating its social media feature? Social media applets allow your phone to automatically post some tweets or Facebook posts when certain conditions occur, without you having to take the time to post. By connecting IFTTT with services like Facebook, Twitter as well as Instagram, you can use lots of applets, allowing your phone to act automatically when certain conditions are met.

For example, you can automatically tweet news from ESPN about your favorite sports team, save photos you’re tagged in on Facebook to Google Photos, or save your Instagram photos to a Pinterest board.

IFTTT Can Work Seamlessly with Google

Google services and products literally contain the smartest systems out there, so automating some of its features indeed gives you the best of both worlds. Check out IFTTT applets for Google to find applets that work with Google to make your life easier. For example, you can connect IFTTT to Google Assistant to manage tasks from your phone. Making your phone seamlessly integrated with Google features is now a lot easier.

Manage Your Power Settings and Preferences

Tell your phone what to do so it manages its power without need for your input. Do you want it to automatically turn off Wi-Fi to conserve battery? There’s an applet for Android phones to do that. Do you want it to notify you via email when power is low? IFTTT can be your phone’s automated power manager tool.

Do you turn off Wi-Fi when you’re away from home to save power? There’s an applet that will remind you to turn Wi-Fi back on when you return home.

Personalize Your Phone with IFTTT

Another great way to make your phone act smart with the IFTTT app is creating and running applets that allow the phone to automatically update and manage certain personalized features. These may range from tasks like playing a particular song when someone calls to others like updating your wallpaper with the picture of the day from a variety of services.

You can use an applet that will turn a ringtone up to 100% volume if you get a call from a specific caller.

Control Your Home Lighting

Today using the IFTTT app, you can connect to and control your home lighting with just the click of a button. Some really smart tasks that can be executed by your phone using this applets include automatically turning on the lights when you get home and even blinking your home lights when your favorite team starts a game or when you’re mentioned on Twitter!

These mind-boggling possibilities with the applets allow for many forms of automation via your mobile device, making it a true hub for smart automation and self-sufficiency.

Conclusion

Generally, the IFTTT app makes your phone smarter, pushing it to make decisions based on certain events so you do not have to manually control each of those decisions. So seen anything you like? Why not try the IFTTT app and get our phone to act smarter and more efficient, while you make time to handle other tiny details that need to be handled.

Your Thoughts

Do you use IFTTT to make your life easier? Which applets do you use? Have you ever created an applet?

Share your thoughts in the Comments section below!

About Kwanga Akura

Technology is the beauty of the modern world, tying together practicality and efficiency in a way all too familiar to us, cool right? That’s what Kwanga Akura thinks of tech. An avid reader, prolific writer for the blog; Techatlast and a dedicated DIYer, he unifies all under a sense of wonder and curiosity. You can write him, or send a message to him via his Twitter handle at @KwangaRobert, He loves to hear from all who appreciate the wonder that is technology and hopes to connect on various topics you might have to discuss.