When iOS 16.0 was still in early beta testing, Apple teased us with a slew of new Books actions in the Shortcuts app, but none of them materialized in iOS 16.0 or 16.1. That changes with Apple's latest software update for iPhone. The only Apple Books action in Shortcuts you'll see on iOS 16.1 and earlier, except for any personal Siri Suggestions that are based on how you use your device, is:

After playing around with the Shortcuts betas, I noticed two changes and shared about them on Twitter — first, we have updated groups for symbols, and second, keyboard shortcuts on the iPad:

On Wednesday, after the Apple Watch Ultra reviews dropped, I wrote up a quick story about the total apps that support Shortcuts now (as announced at WWDC) and how many of those can run from the new Action button on the watch.I'm hoping to get my hands on one soon and try it out, plus I'll be sharing my technique for turning the one dedicated shortcut into a multitool (as I mentioned in the post):

Christina is off this week. Jeff interviews Brett about why and how he builds the tools he builds.

App Shortcuts are actually Apple's biggest Siri update in years

How to automatically connect via cellular when there's no Wi-Fi.

Last week, I published a story for iMore covering the Menu Bar applet for Shortcuts on the Mac and gave a few examples of how to build your shortcuts to work well when triggered there — check out the example shortcuts for sure:

Rosemary Orchard has released the second edition of her book Take Control of Shortcuts, a guide to everything Shortcuts for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

When the Share icon appears, your shortcuts are near.

The default place for saving photos on iPhone and iPad is iCloud. With this Shortcut you create an extra backup for your photos.

Finally, a way to deal with all of those tabs you have open.

In the first public beta of iOS 16, Shortcuts has a whole new set of actions to build with — here's what's available (so far).

Select an portion of an image and get its size and position

This spring, I relaunched my entire Shortcuts Library with over 600 total shortcuts, including a special set of 150 bundle shortcuts attached to each folder page that compiles all the shortcuts in a category into a single multi-tool shortcut (for members only).Check out the full collection and see what's new — I'm adding iOS 16 beta shortcuts and new folders regularly starting with the public release:

I am excited to introduce RoutineHub's new owner, Chris Mendez.

YouTube is great for music discovery. Here are 3 ways to convert your discovered YouTube music videos to your music app for regular listening.

Yesterday to my great surprise, I won “Best Overall Shortcut” in The MacStories [Automation April][aa] [Shortcuts Contest][sc]. I don’t usually participate in contests, I suspect …

In the first seed of the iOS 16 developer beta, the Shortcuts app has received 51 new actions that support interacting with Apple’s first-party apps and help take advantage of system features. The actions provided work with Notes, Voice Memos, Mail, Safari, Shortcuts, Clock, Parked Cars, Image Backgrounds, Personal Hotspot, Files, PDFs, and Reminders, plus […]

With iOS 15 reaching its last beta cycle and the anticipation of iOS 16 on the horizon, here's why you should spend some free time this summer setting up Shortcuts.

John: One of the hardest things about a new project is keeping it under wraps until it’s ready. That was true of Automation April in general, but it was especially true of the Shortcuts Contest. As soon as we’d decided on the outline of what the contest would be, we knew it was something that

Update: Turns out that you can use the highlight colors in raindrop to create more structured highlights in the markdown export. I always struggled using highlights since it was necessary to f…

While Automation April by MacStories is still for another week – the deadline for the Automation April Shortcuts Contest is today.I want to share the Shortcuts I submitted to the contest with…

Over the past weeks I used Raindrop to read and highlight articles. I build a Shortcuts to quickly retrieve the highlights of the latest document in my account and also a few ones to quickly add li…

I’ve used Tot by The Iconfactory on and off since it was released in 2020 and reviewed by Federico, but it never stuck. I never came up with a system for using the app that fits well with how I work. Instead, I would simply dump text and URLs copied from the web or jot

Work better and faster with Bear and Apple Shortcuts. Search Bear with your voice, create daily journal templates, send todos to Reminders, and more—all with just a tap.