Custom App Icons made in Shortcuts should also get app notifications

Just got into customizing my iPhone Home Screen. Though Apple has some limited customization features they are sorely lacking. Light and dark modes. Color Tints. Placing icons where you want. These are features that should have been made available years ago. Anyway, going through the painful process of creating a custom app icon and adding it to my Home Screen using shortcuts has had some wonderful results in truly allowing my Home Screen to have a custom look(not just light and dark🤣). But the problem is these icons do not receive the same notifications as the apps themselves. This would be a ridiculously easy fix and could be implemented to offer us customers a true custom icon experience while also allowing us to see notifications for the apps I made a shortcut to. Why is this still not an option? What is the reasoning behind not doing this?

iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Feb 2, 2025 5:46 PM

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Feb 2, 2025 10:11 PM in response to AndrewGreatWave

Could you please share the Shortcut/Automation made (through a Screenshot) so that I can examine if these shortcuts truly require notifications?


Not all apps on an iPhone have built-in support for notifications. This is especially true for apps that do not inherently rely on real-time alerts or background processes. One particular case is the Shortcuts app, which allows users to create automations that can interact with other apps. While some apps used within a shortcut may have their own notification features, they will only function when the app is actively triggered through the shortcut. In such cases, the notification behavior will resemble a standard app notification but will not operate independently in the background like traditional push notifications.

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