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id: mobile-apps/iphone-action-button-run-an-officer-task-from
title: "iPhone Action Button → run an Officer task from a locked phone"
theme: mobile-apps
status: open
created: 2026-08-21
date_source: stated
order: 1
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**iPhone Action Button → run an Officer task from a locked phone.** Wanted 2026-08-21. The
driving use case: an idea arrives, press the Action Button, an audio recorder opens immediately —
even on the lock screen — and the recording goes straight into an Officer chat session, without
unlocking, opening the app and navigating there.
Shape (assumed, not verified): the Action Button runs a Shortcut, and a Shortcut runs an App
Intent the Officer app exports — so the work is shipping App Intents ("record to chat", and
task-running more generally). **The load-bearing unknown is the lock-screen constraint**: what an
App Intent may do while the phone is locked (microphone access, network, whether iOS forces an
unlock prompt) decides whether this is the feature as imagined or a compromise. Settle that
first, on a real device.