You probably spend a lot of time on your iPhone manually performing individual tasks across a variety of apps. That's boring; think of how much time you could save by simply automating those tasks or ...

Android shortcut apps vary by use case: MacroDroid is best for simple, everyday automations; Tasker suits power users needing deep system control; Automate balances power and ease with visual flows; ...

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 new Shortcuts automation app has to be downloaded separately from iOS 12. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The full version of iOS 12 is now available for everyone. One of its cool new features is ...

Create iOS shortcuts using AI by installing Federico Viticci’s open-source Shortcuts Playground plugin with Anthropic’s Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex on a Mac. Just describe the shortcut in natural ...

Recent findings revealed a hidden UI experiment that adds a dedicated CapCut shortcut to the media export sheet. If an Android user does not have the ByteDance-owned editing app installed, the ...

To celebrate automation and Shortcuts, MacStories is dedicating the month of April to celebrate the process. With Apple’s Shortcuts app, you can quickly automate tasks on your iPhone by piecing ...