Stop your iPhone alarm and Grok Bot starts your morning briefing: an 8-step Shortcuts trick with no schedule and no prompt
A Grok Bot user shared how he made his Bot react to real life instead of a clock: when he stops his morning alarm, his iPhone sends a webhook to Grok Bot, and a routine starts preparing his daily briefing. He asked his Bot to create a briefing routine with a webhook trigger, then built an iPhone Shortcuts automation on 'Alarm is stopped' that POSTs to the routine's URL with the Bot's Authorization key. xAI's docs confirm routines can be triggered by a webhook call, with the key sent as a Bearer token. He suggests the same idea for leaving work, connecting to CarPlay, arriving home or tapping an NFC tag.
Why it matters
Routines that start when something happens fit your day better than fixed schedules: the briefing is ready when you're actually up, even on a lie-in.
Who it's for
Grok Bot users on iPhone who want hands-free triggers for briefings, commutes or evening routines.
How to try it
- Ask your Bot: 'Create a daily briefing routine that runs when its webhook is called, and give me the POST URL and key.'
- In the iPhone Shortcuts app, create an Automation: Alarm, Is Stopped, pick your morning alarm, and set it to run without asking.
- Add the action 'Get Contents of URL', paste the webhook URL, set Method to POST, add a header Authorization with the value 'Bearer <key>', and a JSON body with source = iphone-alarm.
- Stop the alarm once to test, then check the routine's run in Grok Bot. Keep the key private, since anyone with it can start the routine.
Plan & availability: Grok Bot comes with The X Subscription from the $30/month Premium tier up; legacy SuperGrok and Cursor paid plans also include it. Webhook-triggered routines are in xAI's Grok Bot docs; the alarm trigger uses Apple's Shortcuts app (Personal Automation) on iPhone. Checked on the creator's X post and xAI's 'Skills and routines' docs on November 5, 2026.
Source: @Michael_Fenech_ on X
Written by AgentStackList from the original post. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Features, plans and availability can change, so confirm on the source before you rely on it.
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