Siri & Shortcuts

PushWard ships App Intents, so you can drive it from Siri, the Shortcuts app, and personal automations right on your device -- no integration key or API call required.

Coming in app version 1.5.0

This section describes a feature in an app update that's pending App Store review. It unlocks here automatically once the update is live.

App Intents are the actions iOS surfaces to Siri and the Shortcuts app. PushWard exposes two of them. They act as the signed-in user on that device, so anything they do stays on your own account. Both require iOS 26 or later with PushWard installed and signed in.

Send a notification with PushWard

Sends a push notification to yourself -- it lands on every device signed in to your PushWard account, exactly like a notification from the API. Use it to jot a quick note, hand a result off from another Shortcut, or fire a reminder from an automation.

From Siri -- say "Send a notification with PushWard" and dictate the text.
In a Shortcut -- add the action, then wire its text to an earlier step (a calculation, a web request, the current weather) so the notification carries a real result.
From an automation -- trigger it on arriving home, a time of day, or an NFC tag so you get a nudge without lifting a finger.

💡 Tip

Because the action runs as you, it needs no hlk_ key and counts against nothing -- it is the on-device equivalent of a notification you would otherwise send yourself over the API.

Show my unread PushWard notifications

Opens PushWard straight to your inbox, filtered to unread notifications. Handy as a one-tap way to catch up on everything that arrived while you were away.

From Siri -- say "Show my unread PushWard notifications."
As a shortcut -- add it to your Home Screen, the Action button, or Back Tap for instant access to the inbox.

Building automations

Both actions appear under PushWard when you add a step in the Shortcuts app, and inside Automation when you build a personal automation. Combine them with the rest of the Shortcuts library:

Run a web request, then send yourself its result as a notification.
Trigger a notification on a schedule, a location, an alarm, or a Focus change.
Add "Show my unread notifications" to the Action button for a dedicated inbox key.

For notifications driven by an external service or a server rather than your own device, use the notifications API or one of the integrations instead.