The shortcut then saves your answers in the Notes app, where you can easily access them anytime. You can also review your progress and patterns over time by looking at your past notes. The best part ...

We’d hazard a guess that a lot of Mac users haven’t opened the Shortcuts app and, if they have, they’ve done very little other than have a quick look. That’s to be expected. Shortcuts can, at first ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. To create automations using Apple's Shortcuts ...

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 ...

Apple’s shortcuts app is a power user’s dream. I think it’s one of the most underrated features you can find on an iPhone, and even Macs. In case you haven’t used it yet, it allows you to perform a ...

App shortcuts were introduced with Android 7.1 in October 2016. They’ve seen some UI changes over the years, but they’ve mostly stayed the same. I long-press the application icon to access the menu ...

Apple’s Shortcuts app lets you set up complex shortcuts, including with the 25+ new actions available in iOS 26. But my two favorite and most used shortcuts in Apple’s app involve just a single step ...

Apple continues to develop a new feature for its Shortcuts app that will let users generate unique actions using Apple Intelligence models, based on backend code discovered by Nicolás Alvarez and ...

A new iOS shortcut made by Google lets you quickly activate Google Lens and scan whatever is on your screen. A new iOS shortcut made by Google lets you quickly activate Google Lens and scan whatever ...

Life’s a beach — without this iPad weather shortcut. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The iPad infamously still lacks a built-in weather app. There are plenty of ways around this — you can ask Siri, ...