Shortcuts App to Get Revamp With Apple Intelligence Integration

Apple is moving connected a revamped mentation of its Shortcuts app that features Apple Intelligence integration, reports Bloomberg.


For anyone unfamiliar with the Shortcuts app, the instrumentality lets users make customized workflows oregon actions – called shortcuts – to execute tasks automatically oregon with minimal interaction. Actions tin see thing from sending messages to controlling astute location devices. The app emerged retired of Apple's 2017 acquisition of Workflow, which was rebranded arsenic Shortcuts the pursuing year.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the caller mentation that Apple is moving connected volition fto users make actions utilizing Apple Intelligence models. In practice, this could fto users make actions with the assistance of AI – by issuing dependable commands successful earthy language, for example. This should marque the process easier and little intimidating for casual users.

Microsoft already has Copilot+ for Windows, which does thing similar. For macOS, third-party AI agents similar TaskGPT purpose to connection an equivalent experience, but Apple Intelligence can't yet constituent to a comparable AI instrumentality successful its suite of features. That's chiefly due to the fact that Siri has yet to leverage ample connection models (LLMs) – thing the institution is planning to rectify.

The Shortcuts app revamp was reportedly planned to beryllium released this year, but delays could spot it look successful 2026, truthful there's a anticipation it won't diagnostic successful macOS 26 oregon iOS/iPadOS 26 erstwhile they motorboat successful September.
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