Shortcuts and Live Activities

Shortcuts

Quick actions appear after ACNet has been opened once. Touch and hold the icon for Devices, Scan network, Ping and Changes.

The Shortcuts app offers Open devices, Scan network, Open a tool and Open changes. Open a tool only opens the tool. It runs when you tap its button.

Scan network opens Devices and scans the connected network only through the same checks as Scan. If a scan is already running, no second scan starts. A scan does not start before the terms were accepted.

A link that begins with acnet:// opens a place in ACNet. It cannot start a scan by itself.

Live Activities

While a device scan, Check rules now, or an automatic device scan of a rule runs, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island can show its phase, progress and Stop.

A check can show the profile and the rule unless Show profile and rule names is off. No range, address or device name is shown.

ACNet requests a Live Activity only while ACNet itself is in the foreground, and only when Live Activities are on in ACNet Settings and iOS has them enabled for ACNet. If ACNet is already in the background, or iOS refuses the request, the scan or check continues and no activity is shown. A background check is announced by notification when you chose notifications. The activity shows the phase, progress and Stop. Stop requests cancellation and keeps the results collected so far. The activity shows status only: it does not keep the work running, and ACNet does not send push updates to extend it. Progress is the progress ACNet already has, sent at most about every two seconds or when the phase changes. One activity is shown at a time. When the run ends, the last state can stay visible for a few minutes. An activity left after ACNet was closed during a run is ended the next time ACNet opens.

Turn Live Activities off in ACNet Settings, or for ACNet in the iOS Settings app.

What the result means

A Live Activity does not keep the scan running. iOS still ends background work after a short time unless you allowed scans to continue. There is no continuous locked-screen monitoring.