If you’re a fan of the Waveform podcast from MKBHD & team, check out these shortcuts for interacting with the show, the YouTube Playlist, the clips channel, and the main channel.
Get my new shortcuts for the Notion Agents app. Use these to activate Notion AI, plus start and stop meeting.
New in iOS 27, there’s a setting for Shortcuts to default to the Editor instead of Describe a Shortcut.
For shortcuts stuck in sync, Apple has added a new Restore button that adds your shortcuts back to your library.
With Siri AI, Apple has updated App Intents to better understand data from your apps – with IntentValueRepresentation, RelevantEntities, EntityCollection, and SyncableEntity.
Apps can ensure Siri AI knows which content is most important using RelevantEntities – beyond donations or Spotlight indexing.
OpenAI has introduced a new-and-improved voice model called GPT-Live that sounds much more natural to interact with.
Notion has released their new Agents app which lets you chat directly with your data.
With Siri AI interacting with the same content from apps across devices, they need one stable ID to match up inside conversations.
When working with large data sets, developers using App Intents should mark them as EntityCollections for performance improvements – loading only the identifiers.
Some apps have unique types that Siri AI can’t understand by default – ValueRepresentation helps teach the system about your type.
Graham Barlow at TechRadar talks about Describe a Shortcut and how it’s coming to Shortcuts for Mac.
OpenClaw, “the AI that actually does things,” has released iOS and Android versions of the app that let you control your OpenClaw instance running on your desktop.
John Elman, formerly Product Marketing at Apple, has left his most recent work on Siri and Apple Intelligence to rejoin the startup investing world as a partner at a16z.
Designer Michael Flarup has announced an interactive 3D video game collection app that puts your physical game boxes on a shelf. Sign up to be notified when Cippy launches.
Normally, App Intents have a 30-second limit to finish running – LongRunningIntent helps developers get beyond that by moving to a Live Activity. Plus, CancellableIntent makes sure it can be ended gracefully.
Curor has released their iOS app, bringing the agentic coding platform to iOS with remote sessions or cloud agents.
“App Intents is a framework that lets you express your app’s actions and content to other parts of the system in ways that feels natural and deeply integrated.”
From Apple Developer: Level up your App Intents adoption with advanced features to make it faster, more flexible, and more relevant.
New in iOS 27, the Photos app has a setting to sync to iCloud Immediately – for the remainder of the day. No more seeing “iCloud is paused” when you expect your photos to be synced!