The Shortcuts app provides access to a huge number of existing shortcuts, along with the ability to create and run your own ...

Building an iPhone Shortcut no longer has to start with manually searching through a long list of actions. In iOS 27, Apple ...

Next time your Mac is too slow, or you're having to keep repeating the same steps on your iPhone, learn Shortcuts and it will dramatically improve your speed — and even accuracy. Editor's note: This ...

We’d hazard a guess that a lot of Mac users haven’t opened the Shortcuts app and, if they have, they’ve done very little other than have a quick look. That’s to be expected. Shortcuts can, at first ...

Back in high school, Spencer Tamburello’s iPhone would automatically check a local news website every morning to see if snow had shut down his school. If school were closed or delayed, his phone would ...

Create iOS shortcuts using AI by installing Federico Viticci’s open-source Shortcuts Playground plugin with Anthropic’s Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex on a Mac. Just describe the shortcut in natural ...

Federico Viticci at MacStories is out today with yet another wild tool that integrates with Apple’s Shortcuts app. Shortcuts Playground from Federico is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can ...

Life’s a beach — without this iPad weather shortcut. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The iPad infamously still lacks a built-in weather app. There are plenty of ways around this — you can ask Siri, ...