You may not know that, but an app has been developed in your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, which can spare your experience using all these products – and it’s going to be even more powerful.
That app is shortcut, and it allows you to automatically make tasks on your devices, even apps. You can do everything directly from a simple task of making the picture gif to a complex system that you are recording the podcast, and thus, and even more work.
You prepare these workflits by choosing action in the shortcut app and connecting them together: transmitting information from the clipboard and scanning any text to the system, and then standing on an image you have explained so that you can be explained.
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This year, with updates in Apple’s platforms that have been presented to the WWDC 2025, the shortcut is able to work even more, which includes taking advantage of Apple Intelligence features and automatic measures on Mac.
This will enable this automation tool to handle even more versatile and more complex tasks – even if it still has some flaws that can be known.
Shortcut and Apple Intelligence
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Let’s start with iOS 26, iPados 26, and McCons 26 Tahau about what is new about what is new. One of the biggest features is the ability to tap in Apple’s Apple Intelligence Tools suit. This is a wide range of new operations that you can add to your shortcut.
For example, new movements based on Apple’s writing tools allow you to pass into the text and can offer it, rewrite or summarize. They offer many options like the manual writing tools interface, such as changing the tone of the tone of making it friendly or more professional, or making a list of key points or tables.
Other steps allow you to access Apple Intelligence’s image playground tool, automatically produce a photo based on machine models or a prompt -based prompt through Chat GPT, and copy audio.
Use the model in a shortcut
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But there is another action that is likely to make the most powerful and largest splash: use the model. This is an open command that allows you to enter only one hint and allow it to be processed with one of the three different language models: a device on your own iPhone, Mac, or an iPad. Apple’s Remote Private Cloud Computer; Or chat GPT.
It really opens the wild abilities, such as being able to process large quantities of text-class note, or a document you are writing for work-and then talk to other apps on your device, drop the summary points in your Word processor or other notes taking app. Or summarize a document and send an email or text immediately with this data. And, of course, you can chains these AI actions together, using a shortcut to copy the lecture or interview audio and then automatically produce a list of a summary or bullet point.
The use of an on -device model also allows you to create workflows that do not rely on cloud contact and avoid some of the important implications of Generato AI’s environmental and privacy. However, there is a warning: Since these actions are based on Apple intelligence, they need a device worth these features, which means the Apple silicon -based iPad or Max, or the iPhone 15 Pro or better.
Shortcut receives automation for Macos
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Apple intelligence growth is not the only major change in shortcuts this year. On the Macos Tahao, the app also gets a long wait feature that brings it to the shortcut version on iOS and IPados: Automation.
On mobile platforms, you have been able to produce routines that automatically goes on, stimulating the conditions – say, when your iPhone converts to a low power mode when it falls down a certain percentage of battery or your smart lights turn on at a certain time of the day. But now those features come to the Mac, especially with the options designed for the platform, such as a change in file or folder content, or when an external drive connects.
This opens up many possibilities for automating your Mac, which was the domain of more complex third party apps like Hazel. Similarly, MacOS 26’s shortcuts potentially expand the automation audience, which in turn can encourage Apple to invest more time and energy in the system.
What is interesting about a shortcut
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Since someone who loves automation in many forms of his own and has been working with a shortcut for many years, I look forward to using this new functionality to make more powerful workflows. For example, I have long tried to automatically create, logging, and filing of receipts – cursory things, I know – but I have found that the figures have been accurately presented with emails and PDFs, struggling to analyze the shortcut, which is why this is due. But with these AI-powered operations, it is easy to throw the text wall on the app and it is to choose specific information such as dates or dollars-this is just something in which the LLM is good.
However, due to the current limits within the shortcut, it has a lot of enthusiasm. These latest updates also remain its own early, which does not have the ability to build more complex workflows that rely on timely programming construction, such as conditioned loop or more complicated if … otherwise statements.
As a result, many complex tasks that want to perform to someone need to fall into other languages that are connected to the shortcut, such as the shell script or apple script. And many features in Apple’s operating system are still not viable by the app, including long -standing features like spaces on Mac.
Shortcut Outlook
Nevertheless, this year’s additional shortcuts are better for the future of the shortcut and indicates that Apple at least remembers that unlike previous attempts like automotive and apple script, the latest solution to this is still there (both of them are still on the Mac). This gives me some hope that when Apple rolls its next updates a year from now, we can see the shortcut forward.
