{"id":52271,"date":"2026-06-16T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52271"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:36:32","slug":"ai-generated-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/16\/ai-generated-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Generated Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/apple-brings-natural-language-to-shortcuts\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/apple-brings-natural-language-to-shortcuts\/\">\n<p>Apple today announced that users can now describe a shortcut in natural language, with Apple Intelligence automatically building the automation in the background.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/06\/08\/apple-announces-macos-golden-gate-27\/\">Marcus Mendes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/06\/08\/apple-announces-macos-golden-gate-27\/\">\n<p>Users can simply describe what they want, such as &ldquo;when I&rsquo;m leaving work, text my wife with my expected ETA,&rdquo; and Shortcuts will actually build the shortcut to make it work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This sounds great in that I find creating shortcuts annoying. It&rsquo;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&rsquo;t get first-class support for the functionality and triggers that are available to Shortcuts.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@simonbs\/116719008453897283\">Simon B. St&oslash;vring<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@simonbs\/116719008453897283\">\n<p>Data Jar got sherlocked, and that genuinely makes me happy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@simonbs\/116708829659789697\">Simon B. St&oslash;vring<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@simonbs\/116708829659789697\">\n<p>Apple should let users filter out and maybe even rewrite notifications from any app using Shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The new notification automation trigger in Shortcuts is super cool. As far as I can tell, it won&rsquo;t let me modify the notification content or filter out notifications based on the content, but it&rsquo;s still a quite powerful addition.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Third-party automation triggers in Shortcuts are now possible. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Just send a notification containing data meant for the new notification trigger to consume.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@palmin\/116737836632607659\">Anders Borum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@palmin\/116737836632607659\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Create cloud servers, run commands and destroy them again right from Shortcuts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/16\/apple-intelligence-in-appleos-27\/\">Apple Intelligence in appleOS 27<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Charlton: Apple today announced that users can now describe a shortcut in natural language, with Apple Intelligence automatically building the automation in the background. Marcus Mendes: Users can simply describe what they want, such as &ldquo;when I&rsquo;m leaving work, text my wife with my expected ETA,&rdquo; and Shortcuts will actually build the shortcut to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-06-16T19:34:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"b50c0ad3-8a69-412b-9d72-d222bf37664d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-06-16T19:36:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AtQwK04ppQSudctIivzdmTQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2602,1351,888,31,2887,30,2784,1074,1686],"class_list":["post-52271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-code-generation","tag-ios","tag-ios-27","tag-mac","tag-macos-27","tag-push-notifications","tag-shortcuts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52281,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271\/revisions\/52281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}