We’re very excited to announce the inaugural Automation April Shortcuts Contest. When Federico and I hatched the idea for the contest last fall, it quickly became the centerpiece of Automation April.

Our friends over at MacStories have officially kicked off their second annual Automation April event. This event is focused on helping you use automation to make your devices your own, in the “spirit ...

John: One of the things I love about judging Automation April is seeing the wide variety of problems people use Shortcuts to solve and their creativity in solving them. This year’s Automation April ...

Shortcuts (formerly Workflow) is a popular task automation and scripting app among iPhone and iPad users. Following its popularity—and in response to Mac users’ requests, Apple introduced the desktop ...

Phone Shortcuts add quick settings navigation with Silence Unknown Callers; paired with nightly automations, calls are filtered on schedule ...

Hint: it's not Automator.

Apple Shortcuts list adds a morning AI update text; it includes weather, calendar, reminders and birthdays, with a ...

Apple has added to its list of Shortcut activation triggers — meaning you can make your iPhone or iPad can now do more for you automatically in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. Next time you connect a monitor to ...

Apple has added a toggle to the Shortcuts app in iOS 15.4 that lets users disable the notifications that run when they trigger a specific Shortcuts automation. Prior to the iOS 15.4 beta, the ...