Shortcuts

“Shortcuts automation is significantly better than Siri”

“The Apple Intelligence Shortcuts creation is great as well.”

“I find it very boring to create automations manually, this will help a lot”

“It's turned the app into something I practically never used to something that's actually got me automating repetitive tasks on my phone.”

“you can set up a Shortcut that achieves similar results because many snatchers will instinctively try to turn off cellular”

“Shortcuts is a wonderful idea in principle while in practice anytime I try to do something with it some part is missing.”

“I parse the text using some apple shortcuts and inject things like tasks into my daily memos”

“I've never been more frustrated programming something than when I tried to build a non-trivial Shortcut.”

“Programmers hate it, non-programmers can't understand it, it is not designed for anybody.”

“Shortcuts has a few massive flaws that would give me pause enshrining it as middleware”

“That feels like the type of thing that if done right can change how we all use our phones”

“I was impressed that Shortcuts are able to intervene like this.”

“the way you assemble shortcuts leaves a lot to be desired for anything nontrivial”

“Use Shortcuts to make a cron job to open the app daily.”

“I have an automation written using Apple Shortcuts”

“There seems to be something about how intents get triggered by Shortcuts on iOS that feels flaky to me.”

“I really couldn’t find a use case for a custom iOS app that wasn’t covered by them.”

“This one works great with TextExpander and iOS Shortcuts”

“My biggest problem with authoring shortcuts is that the editor goes out of its way to obliterate context while you're working.”

“Shortcuts just doesn't make sense. Even the simplest things are hard to do and the scripts are totally unmaintainable.”

“The permissions and secure app integration models are all there, and it's reasonably stable.”

“I have zero confidence in Apple respecting my time by committing to compatibility”

“Apple designed Shortcuts to look like a shiny toy demo, and it gets awkward fast once you leave the happy path.”

“Once you have anything complex, you're going to need code reuse and its a sad story with shortcuts as provided by Apple.”

“few things consistently succeed in making me feel inept like trying to build an Apple Shortcut”

“they may be the exception here, in being both targeting regular users and actually useful”

“It stopped working a few hours later. I resolved to never waste time on that POS again.”

“the excellent Shortcuts: "Picture-Search" for Google”

“It nicely complements the layers Apple has been building for years: App Intents, Shortcuts, Spotlight/Siri surfaces”

“I've even setup a few iOS shortcuts that connect into my Obsidian notes”

“With iOS the easiest way to make sure it off and stays off is to build a shortcut to cut off wifi/bluetooth.”

“I find the shortcuts extremely powerful all over different parts of the system, but I wish the contours of what it can and can't do were less opaque.”

“I use it to run Shortcuts I've created daily. Just have to careful with the naming - something too short can get confused.”

“It's a horrendous app that combines all the worst parts of a scripting language with all the worst parts of a visual language”

“you'd be surprised what cool things you can do when using Shortcuts with Siri”

“Shortcuts and Automations would be your best friends there to achieve this.”

“Even phones these days have pretty good scripting environments (thinking of Shortcuts on iOS).”

“Apple has shortcuts, but they haven't propped it up like a standard that other people can use.”

“iOS Shortcuts has access to the same context: Mail, Calendar, Files.”

“Pairing Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence lets a grandma do some powerful work”