AI-Generated Shortcuts
Apple today announced that users can now describe a shortcut in natural language, with Apple Intelligence automatically building the automation in the background.
Users can simply describe what they want, such as “when I’m leaving work, text my wife with my expected ETA,” and Shortcuts will actually build the shortcut to make it work.
This sounds great in that I find creating shortcuts annoying. It’s not always clear which building blocks I should be using, and stringing them together properly seems tedious and fiddly. On the other hand, I dislike how AppleScript doesn’t get first-class support for the functionality and triggers that are available to Shortcuts.
Data Jar got sherlocked, and that genuinely makes me happy.
Apple should let users filter out and maybe even rewrite notifications from any app using Shortcuts.
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The new notification automation trigger in Shortcuts is super cool. As far as I can tell, it won’t let me modify the notification content or filter out notifications based on the content, but it’s still a quite powerful addition.
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Third-party automation triggers in Shortcuts are now possible. Sort of.
Just send a notification containing data meant for the new notification trigger to consume.
iOS 27 allows 3rd party shortcuts actions to run for longer than 30 seconds making me publish 2 actions that have been hidden behind feature flags for years.
Create cloud servers, run commands and destroy them again right from Shortcuts.
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I've had terrible luck with shortcuts. It just so often doesn't seem to work in a way that makes sense. It's not easy to use, unfortunately, for even slightly detailed things. I wonder if this will help that issue
