Apple Watch Apps Can Provide App Shortcuts in watchOS 10 »
August 15
New in watchOS 10 – Apple Watch apps get App Shortcuts support and with it bring a wide range of Siri actions to your wrist.
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Automating with Shortcuts and macOS Folder Actions »
August 14
Jason Snell shared a classic automation post covering how to use long-living Mac feature combined with the latest Shortcuts features.
Interactive Widgets Are Built Using App Intents: What That Means For Shortcuts »
August 1
Speaking on The Talk Show #382, Iconfactory developer Craig Hockenberry talks about the advantages for Shortcuts that will be realized off the work app developers put into interactive widgets.
Automators Talk Personal Automation Fun »
August 1
My pals Rosemary and Orchard are back with another episode of Automators on their favorite automations – listen on Relay FM.
What’s New in Shortcuts – Issue 98
July 31
In between betas, we saw a new action come to Shortcuts, interesting rumors related to the future of Siri, stories sharing helpful tips, and more to do with Threads by Instagram.
How to Get a Custom Alert When Your iPhone Reaches Full Charge »
July 31
MakeUseOF has put together a guide for using Shortcuts to set up Personal Automations that go off when your phone is fully charged.
How to put two shortcuts in one small widget »
July 31
The folks at Cult of Mac have shared a how-to guide for setting up the new Dual widget available in iOS 17.
iPhone 15 Pro Action Button Option for Shortcuts Potentially Revealed in iOS 17 Code »
July 31
Code has been found suggesting the Action button is coming to the next iPhone – here’s why I think the Shortcuts support needs to be improved.
How to change back to the old Twitter app icon on iOS »
July 31
With Twitter being rebranded to X, users are looking for ways to avoid the change and get the old icon back – using Add to Home Screen in Shortcuts.
Instapaper Adds App Shortcuts and New Actions
July 31
Instapaper has updated their Shortcuts support with new App Shortcuts based off the latest App Intents APIs – here’s why I’m glad about their particular implementation (and I give suggestions for improvement).
Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI »
July 20
According to Bloomberg, Apple is testing their own generative AI tool called “Ajax” internally – here’s why I think it needs to take advantage of Shortcuts.
AirPods Can Authenticate You For Siri Requests Thanks To This Accessibility Advocate »
July 20
If you’re always running into “You’ll need to unlock your iPhone first” with Siri, you’ll want to use AirPods starting in iOS 17 – here’s how this new accessibility feature benefits everyone.
Test This iOS 17 Soundboard App With Interactive Widgets »
July 20
Interactive widgets are coming to iOS 17 and this developer has teased Klang, a new soundboard app, now available in TestFlight.
How to Open Threads Profiles from Mastodon and Twitter Directly in the Threads App »
July 5
If you’re running into issues opening Thread profiles into the app, this shortcut from MacStories is for you – set it up with Back Tap and you’re good to go.
Send Your Feedback to Apple About App Intents
July 5
If you’re a developer working on App Intents, the team at Apple wants to hear from you – see this post from engineering manager Michael Gorbach.
How to build an App Intents Spotlight integration using Shortcuts »
July 5
Apple has introduced a new feature to display App Intents in Spotlight – Antoine Van Der Lee wrote up how he implemented the change in his app WeTransfer.
ShortCircuit provides customized ChatGPT experience in a premium app »
July 4
Short Circuit is a native ChatGPT experience for Apple apps, with tons of customizations you can add to your Side Chats – check out the new app.
Fantastical gets updated Shortcuts actions »
July 4
Fantastical has improved their Shortcuts collection, and Jason Snell has all the details on Six Colors.
LaunchBar adds improved Shortcuts support »
July 4
LaunchBar has updated their Shortcuts support to include proper icons from the app, plus accept input into the shortcut.
Detail: A Modern, Machine Learning-Powered Approach to Video »
June 3
MacStories covered Detail Duo and Detail for Mac – a set of creative video apps for storytelling (complete with Shortcuts support, of course).