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The team behind IFTTT (short for “if this, then that”) wrote in a blog post that Amazon is cutting the service off from Alexa beginning October 31st.

If your IFTTT applets use a specific phrase or question as the trigger (“Alexa, trigger...” or “Alexa, what’s on my to-do list?”), that will convert to using an IFTTT button widget that you can either use in the app or add to your smartphone’s homescreen.

But all other triggers set up through Alexa — say, an automation that runs when you add something to your to-do list — will be archived.

It’s also still integrated with Google Assistant, though voice commands have to start with “activate” before an applet will trigger.

In the early days of smart home automation (well, as expressed through Apple, Amazon, and Google), IFTTT was a powerful, versatile tool.

But these days, there are powerful built-in solutions, like Apple Shortcuts, that are more deeply integrated, more reliable, faster, and importantly, don’t need a subscription to get the most out of them.

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