How to Automate Your Life With Apple’s Shortcuts App »

Lance Whitney from PCMag covers all the basics of Shortcuts to get you started, including creating shortcuts/automations, adding them to the widget/Share Sheet/Apple Watch, and finding new shortcuts online.

Lance Whitney for PCMag:

You probably spend a lot of time on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac running one task after another after another across a variety of apps. Think how much time you could save if you automated those tasks or combined them into a single action. You can do all that and more with Apple’s Shortcuts app.

This resource covers all the basics of Shortcuts – like how to run a shortcut, create a shortcut, create an automation, add shortcuts to the share sheet/widget/Apple Watch, and how to find shortcuts online.

Read the full story on PCMag.

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