How to use IFTTT recipes

MANAGING RECIPES

We’ve give you an overview of the kinds of rules that you can create, but you can now take it further, by investigating the other channels and creating rules based on the features that they offer. You don’t have to have all rules that you’ve created turned on, and can choose which ones you want to run. From the web interface click My Recipes and use the power button icon to turn a recipe on or off (it goes grey when it’s off). From the mobile app, click the Pestle and Mortar icon and use the toggle switch to turn a recipe on or off.

SHARING RECIPES

One of the neat things about IFTTT is that everything you create can be shared with the community and vice versa. You can share a rule and make it public using the web and app interfaces. From the web interface click My Recipes, then click the recipe that you want o share to go into edit mode. From the app, click the pestle and mortar icon and tap the recipe you want to share to go into edit mode. From either interface select Publish to share. 

GETTING OTHER USERS’ RECIPES

Of course, you can get recipes that other users have created, letting you use their work. From the web interface, click on Browse and you can view collections, such as Recipes for iOS, Featured recipes, Trending ones, new ones and the most popular of all time. From the app, tap the Pestle and Mortar icon and then tap the Glasses icon to get a similar screen. You can search for specific recipes from either interface, too.

Once you’ve found a recipe that you’re interested in, select it and then choose Add recipe. This will add the recipe into your list. You’ll need to go to your list and edit the new recipe, configuring it for your needs. For example, a recipe that uses location won’t be set up to trigger where you want it to.