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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple’s Shortcuts app can be incredibly powerful, but building automations often requires patience and trial and error. A new AI-powered tool — Shortcuts ...

What if you could turn your Mac into a personal assistant that handles tedious tasks with just a few clicks? Imagine summarizing lengthy articles, organizing recipes, or saving key insights into Apple ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. To create automations using Apple's Shortcuts ...

Apple’s Shortcuts app offers tremendous power, especially with iOS 26’s additions around AI. But my own most-used shortcuts tend to be extremely simple, including one shared by Quinn Nelson for ...

Apple has leveraged AI to make its visual-scripting tool, Shortcuts, easier to use in iOS 27, in a reveal shown at its WWDC 2026 event. The Shortcuts app was largely built for power users who wanted ...