I want to use use my iPhone to make a daily call to a web URL; much like a cron job if I had a home server. In theory, this should be so simple: Open iOS Shortcuts app Go to the Automation tab Tap the ➕ icon Choose Create Personal Automation Choose Time of Day Set a time and choose next Use the “Get Contents of URL” action in the “Web Requests” section Disable “Ask Before Running” ✅ The above works great if I set the time of day to something like 9am, when I will likely be using my phone. ❌ It never runs if I set the time of day to 6am when: I am still asleep (so the phone hasn’t been picked up for 6–8 hours) The phone is on charge and connected to WiFi Do not disturb is enabled (note: I have tried disabling “Do not disturb” without success) My theory is perhaps if the phone is inactive for x time then daily automations won’t run but hoping someone has a definitive answer. Thank you!

I want to use use my Apple TV 4K to make a daily call to a web URL; much like a cronJob if I had a home server. In theory, this should be so simple: Open iOS Home app Go to the Automation tab Create a new automation Choose A Time of Day Occurs Select Next Choose Advanced -> Convert To Shortcut Tap the ➕ icon Choose Web Choose Get Contents of URL from the Web Requests section Enter the URL as https://apple.com Tap the ▶️ icon to test the automation I see the error message “A server with the specified hostname could not be found.” Can anyone explain to me how one might use this feature if its not capable of resolving domain names?