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Apple still sells the iPhone SE 3. Rumor has it that the next iPhone SE will lose the home screen button but retain the same size. The camera isn't as powerful as the iPhone 13/14/15 lines but I find that it does fine in low light and takes the same exceptionally beautiful photos in good lighting. It has portrait mode as well.

It's not that much of a trade-off in terms of features or capability and it has the small size you'd expect.

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Not going to help OP who already has an iPhone, and whose problem is with iOS.

FWIW, I have an iPhone SE (2nd gen), and the Automations feature described by OP works fine. So iOS is not necessarily a dealbreaker.

How did you get it to work? I'm trying to do something very basic, wait for a text message to appear and make a POST request to an endpoint with the contents. I can create the Shortcut itself, but I cannot make the Automation run without showing a notification and then requiring me to tap on the notification to run the Automation.

(Translating UI strings from German.) When I have the automation open, the first two settings are "Automation" (set to "Execute immediately") and "Notify on execution" (set to off). That seems to work. But not sure if it's more restrictive for certain types of actions, like network requests. I'm only using it for fairly basic stuff like "if Youtube or Nebula is opened, turn screen rotation lock off".

> That seems to work. But not sure if it's more restrictive for certain types of actions, like network requests.

Yes, yes it is. This is the problem. If you want to automate something based on received text messages, you cannot.

I'm specifically looking for a small/normal-sized smartphone that doesn't run iOS, as I need features from my phone not available on iOS (specifically, running automations automatically)

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