Indie developer Alex Hay has long pushed the boundaries of what third-party developers can build with the SiriKit framework and Shortcuts integrations on Apple platforms. In late 2019, his Toolbox Pro app redefined what it means to complement Apple’s Shortcuts app with additional actions, creating an entirely new sub-genre of headless utilities designed to provide

Apple's Shortcuts app can quickly and easily run a host of tasks on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch.

A huge change for iOS power users

When you’re automating something, sometimes you run into a roadblock. On iOS, that roadblock is often impassable, though that happens less often now than back in the day. On macOS, there&#821…

Editor’s Note: Clean Up URLs and Remove Tracking Parameters with URL Cleaner is part of the MacStories Starter Pack, a collection of ready-to-use shortcuts, apps, workflows, and more that we’ve created to help you get the most out of your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Picture this: You’ve just come across an interesting article or product

Today, I’m excited to announce that I’m brining some great new features to The iTech Everything website’s new version, v1.5.

Alfred users can now access their library of shortcuts on the Mac, thanks to an official Alfred workflow by Vítor Galvão. The workflow allows users to access individual shortcuts and folders of shortcuts, as well as pass text and files to shortcuts for processing. It’s a nice approach that uses Alfred’s existing workflow system to

Tell me how the panelist caused you extra work. Last year I decided I was spending too much time doing jobs because I could do them, not because they were an essential part of my job. (My friend My…

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Today I’m pleased to announce the release of Apple Frames 2.1, the first major update to version 2.0 of my popular Apple Frames shortcut, which I launched last October. It took me longer than I hoped to put together this update, but I’m happy that I was able to add compatibility fo all the latest

Shortcuts automations are designed to simplify repetitive tasks; here's what you need to know to begin to use them.

If you own a Stream Deck and want a better way for adding your shortcuts to it, give Shortcuts by SENTINELITE a try. I’ve only been playing with the plugin for a short time, but this is hands down the best way I’ve found for adding push-button convenience to Shortcuts on the Mac. I covered

Apple's automation platform had a big year with the release of Shortcuts for Mac, but growing pains are holding users back – here are 8 things Apple could fix to improve the Shortcuts app for everyone whether you're new or a power user.

✅ Shortcuts experiments with agile project management

Today, I’m pleased to introduce Apple Frames 2.0, an all-new version of my popular shortcut to put screenshots inside physical device frames of Apple products. The new Apple Frames, which you can download at the end of this post or on the MacStories Shortcuts Archive, has been completely rewritten so it’s faster and lighter, comes

I’ve written a couple of times about Template Gun, a hot-dog cannon of an AppleScript that I use to automatically expand zip archives of Logic Pro templates to use in editing projects. The sc…

As seen on my Mac: Two cross-platform shortcuts. Shortcuts has arrived on the Mac with macOS Monterey, and while the new Shortcuts app is pretty weird, it works–and it brings most of the func…

Siri — Apple's voice-activated assistant — is now ten years old! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we interviewed it.

Shortcuts save you time by reducing multiple tasks to just one click. Here’s how to use the Shortcuts app in macOS Monterey. Additional Resources: Contact Apple Support for Mac: http://apple.co/Mac To subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AppleSupport To download the Apple Support app: http://apple.co/2hFtzIv Apple Support on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AppleSupport

Frans Rosen, Co-founder and Detectify Crowdsource hacker, details how he discovered 3 critical security bugs while hacking Apple Cloudkit.

An easy-to-use iOS shortcut lets non-technical users bombard the site, according to Motherboard's tests.

In this episode of Automators, Rosemary and David are joined by Zach, the creator of JellyCuts - a text IDE for Shortcuts.

This detailed guide with screenshots covers how offline Siri works on iPhone in iOS 15 including what commands do and don't work.

iPad Diaries is a regular series about using the iPad as a primary computer. You can find more installments here and subscribe to the dedicated RSS feed. A couple of weeks ago, I shared a series of pictures on Twitter showing how I had been using iOS 11’s Type to Siri feature on my iPad