On this week's episode of the HomeKit Insider podcast, guest Matthew Cassinelli joins to talk about Shortcuts and home automations.

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 ...

Use Apple Shortcuts to grab text from Instagram posts, then auto-file notes by folder and title, so everything stays ...

Turn ChatGPT into quick Mac Shortcuts that parse links, format recipes, and auto-save results to Notes for faster research ...

You probably spend a lot of time on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac running one task after another after another across a variety of apps. Think how much time you could save if you automated those tasks or ...

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 ...

Long-time 9to5Mac readers will remember that the native Shortcuts app started as an indie project called Workflow, a clever, approachable tool that made automation fun and accessible to less technical ...

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 ...

Apple’s Shortcuts app offers tremendous power, especially with new iOS 26 additions. But my own most-used shortcuts tend to be extremely simple, including one recently shared by Quinn Nelson for ...

The concept of an app switcher tool is rather odd. After all, why would you need a tool for jumping between apps, when the Command+Tab shortcut works just fine and the three-finger swipe opens the ...

The Shortcuts app is a powerful, underrated tool, but creating automations is frustrating due to its confusing scripting system. Apple must fix it, now that it has the Gemini firepower at its disposal ...