You can use the back tap gesture on iPhone to open any app or do any task via the Shortcuts App. I show you how to make a basic shortcut and how to assign it to the back tap feature in iOS 14. This is ...

Shortcuts is Apple’s new automation app for iOS 12. It integrates with Siri and lets you build all kinds of amazing automated workflows, from shutting your house down when you go to sleep, to ...

How to Run a Shortcut One way I trigger a shortcut is by opening the Shortcuts app on my device and tapping a shortcut on the main screen. I can also ask Siri to run it for me by saying “Hey Siri, ...

You may not know it, but there's an app built right into your iPhone, iPad, and Mac that can supercharge your experience using all those products — and it's about to get even more powerful. That app ...

Imagine effortlessly transforming your favorite Instagram recipes and travel reels into neatly organized, searchable notes, no screenshots, no endless scrolling, just pure convenience. Dan Rodriguez ...

Apple's new Shortcuts automation app has to be downloaded separately from iOS 12. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The full version of iOS 12 is now available for everyone. One of its cool new features is ...

Shortcuts help you automate tasks on Apple devices. Created inside the Shortcuts app, they let you mix and match different actions from across your applications and services. These things can work ...

One of the most common compliments – or complaints – that I often come across in the phone community is that the “iPhone just works.” It’s plenty fast, fluid, and user-friendly. For those who seek the ...

At WWDC 2025, Apple showed off a new AI-powered Shortcuts app. The company says Shortcuts can now tap into Apple Intelligence directly, and developers will be able to access Apple’s on-device large ...

iOS 26 has a new feature in the Shortcuts app that lets you tap directly into Apple Intelligence’s LLMs with any custom query. One surprise benefit of this feature, as highlighted by AppleInsider, is ...

Apple isn't first in line when it comes to introducing the most exciting of features — but when it does, it gets them exceptionally right. Launched alongside iOS 12, the Shortcuts app has quickly ...

The newest version of the ChatGPT app from OpenAI adds a new "Open SearchGPT" option to the Shortcuts app on the iPhone and iPad. For those that have access to SearchGPT, tapping on the shortcut ...