Apple Watch Theater Mode - How can I get it to automatically turn off Theater Mode when I leave the location

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If you are willing to put in the effort, I suspect you can create a shortcut that will do what you want. This is AIs recommendation:

Steps to Create the Automation:

• Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone and tap the Automation tab (bottom center).
• Tap the + (plus sign) at the top right to add a new automation.
• Select Create Personal Automation or choose Leaving.
• Tap Location, choose the specific location (e.g., a movie theater), and set your preferred radius.
• Select Run Immediately to ensure it runs without asking.
• Tap Next and select New Blank Automation.
• Tap Add Action and search for "Theater".
• Choose Set Theater Mode.
• Tap on "Turn" to change the action to Turn Theater Mode Off.
• Tap Done. 

See also this conversation in Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/1bh9rfl/how_can_i_create_a_theater_mode_shortcut_for_my/

I'm sure if you search, you can find more examples.

See also:

Use shortcuts on Apple Watch - Apple Support

Shortcuts User Guide - Apple Support

hard to say really

these forums are user helping other users like yourself, it's sort of going

to a physical apple store and asking other customers their advice

This is a user helping users with tech questions forum, we are not apple

and apple do not read your posts here

some think they screen posts using AI, if they do it's hard to say

but they did make a feed back channel so people could voice what your wishes are

Product Feedback - Apple

if I were you then I would probably start there

or you can take an ative part and shout them up using

Get Support (apple.com)

And or

Contact - Official Apple Support

And or

Contact - How to Contact Us - Apple

Or

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

bljt wrote:

I know you like the AI buzzword, but it's not AI to know that there is movement in a watch that tracks movement. There are many things it tracks. You get up out of bed and go about your business. The watch asks you: Are you up, shall I turn off sleep mode? This is exactly the type of thing I'm asking for it to do with Theater mode.

Well you are finding out that what you think should be clearly easy to do is not possible at this time. Repeating your opinions as to how something should work is just spinning your wheels. As I and Old Toad have suggested submit your thoughts about this to Apple using the feedback link we provided and hope for the best.

That wasn't Artificial Intelligence (that's for Congress). That was A-Roman Numeral 1. 😉

Tell Apple your suggestion at Watch Feedback.

Rudegar wrote:

How would it know the premises of the theater/meeting area or the likes?

If you go regularly to the same theatre, you could just put in the location of that theatre. I'm not sure, but I think it may also be possible to set up the shortcut to turn off Theatre Mode when you change locations (e.g., leave the theatre). You'd still have to turn it on manually. Of course, if you regularly go to the same theatre, I think you could set up a shortcut to turn it on as well.

I'm not really very good with Shortcuts. However, I think it's doable.

bljt wrote:

I've tried to make a shortcut, but it doesn't work. First, Theater mode on the phone is not really the same as theater mode on your watch. Turning on/off a theater mode on the phone does nothing to the watch. This is surprising to me since Sleep mode on the watch and the phone seem to be exactly tied together. Anyway, I couldn't get it to work at all.

Other people have indicated they have gotten it to work. But I'm not any kind of expert with Shortcuts. You may want to do some additional research about it on your own. I did only the briefest of searchs.

bljt wrote:

I know you like the AI buzzword, but it's not AI to know that there is movement in a watch that tracks movement. There are many things it tracks. You get up out of bed and go about your business. The watch asks you: Are you up, shall I turn off sleep mode? This is exactly the type of thing I'm asking for it to do with Theater mode.

And I think it would be great if my coffee pot made coffee the first time I walk into the kitchen in the morning. I do not doubt that a coffee pot manufacturer could make a machine that does that. But, they haven't (as far as I know). I know I could put together various smart home components and (probably) get it to work myself. But it's easier just to make the coffee.

Submit your feedback to Apple.

bljt wrote:

IdrisSeabright

I took your initial suggestion of submitting feedback directly to Apple and immediately did so - thanks for the pointer to the proper place for the comment. The rest of all these snide comments (Prevagen, making coffee, etc.) are inane. close-minded, and unappreciated. I gave 2 very specific examples where the watch uses the same information (movement) to ask about turning off or on a function on the watch; this is no different. Obviously you've never designed or written software user interfaces and backend systems to have a feel for what's possible.

I see you all have a pretty close minded community here. Bye.

I never made any comments about Prevagen. I also don't think the person who made the comment was being snide. I was not being snide when I discussed what it would be really nice to have my coffee machine do. It was an analogy.

Everyone participating here is a fellow user. We have no control over what Apple does. Nor are most of us interested in arguing about what Apple should or should not do. That doesn't make us close-minded.

I have found that, in these forums (and in life generally), everything is more pleasant if you assume that people have good intentions. Insulting people because you don't like their answers isn't very kind.