If You're Not Using Your iPhone Shortcuts, You Should — iOS 27 Makes It Much Easier - CNET

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The Shortcuts app is one of those “if you know you know” iPhone features. While most parts of Apple’s operating systems are intuitive — almost designed to make you forget you’re using computer software — Shortcuts is for folks willing to go one step further.

Shortcuts lets you automate tasks on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, but it hasn’t always been user-friendly software. I often found earlier iterations of the app tricky to use — I had to manually set up each shortcut’s function, as well as the conditions for activation.

Now, with iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence, creating Shortcuts is easier than ever. If there’s a specific automation that you want your iPhone to learn, you can build a shortcut simply by describing what you want it to do in natural language. Essentially, you can now vibe code your own shortcut.

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