
Dual Capture and Landscape Selfies for iPhone Need Shortcuts Support
The new iPhone 17 models allow for Dual Capture and Selfie Videos – but the Camera app’s Shortcuts support lags behind.

The new iPhone 17 models allow for Dual Capture and Selfie Videos – but the Camera app’s Shortcuts support lags behind.

Apple has shared their release notes for Shortcuts across the iOS 26 platforms – including new & updated actions, updates to the Shortcuts Editor, plus Mac improvements like Spotlight, Automations, and Control Center.

This week, developer Rudrank Riyam, author of the AiOS Dispatch newsletter, joins me to talk about his experiences developing for Apple platforms using AI-assisted coding, and what we’re interested in ahead of Apple’s WWDC.

Apple has published a guide for all the new features available in iOS 18 – I made a reference doc, plus two outlines to share.

Join me on Saturday, May 18 as I give a short talk to iOS Dev Happy Hour about App Intents!

Quartiles is a fresh new game available for Apple News+ subscribers – add these shortcuts to quickly launch straight into your Puzzles in the News app.

New in iOS 17.4 – customize your Action button with Get Orientation and Get Activity, take advantage of Clipboard actions in visionOS, and enjoy a more stable Shortcuts for Mac.

Deckset for Mac has released their long-awaited iOS and iPadOS apps – here’s why you should check out this beautiful Markdown presentation app.

OverPicture adds easy access to picture-in-picture from your Safari toolbar – get it for a few bucks on the App Store.

Apple has added 11 new Shortcuts actions in the iOS 16.4 developer betas – learn about new capabilities for Stage Manager, the iPhone 14’s Always On Display, Intercom on HomePods, and VPN control.

Em Lazer-Walker, Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, on what she’s calling the “audio version of ARKit” in iOS 14: They talked about this largely in context

Using the Share sheet and Add People to copy a direct link to a file in iCloud Drive, without exposing your data to the outside world.

Don’t miss Federico’s coverage of iOS and the Shortcuts app – his is the story to read to stay up-to-date on what’s new & improved.

StitchPics is my favorite tool for making screenshots of complete Shortcuts – check out the video of how it works.

I didn’t know about this feature for years – hopefully you can take advantage of it now [includes a GIF].