Apple Brings Natural Language Creation to Shortcuts App

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that users can now describe a shortcut in natural language, with Apple Intelligence automatically building the automation in the background.

Previously, creating a Shortcuts automation required users to manually build workflows step by step, making the feature largely the preserve of more technically minded users. With the upcoming update, users can simply describe what they want a shortcut to do in plain English text, and Apple Intelligence then handles the construction.

Apple demonstrated the feature with a practical example: A user asking the Shortcuts app to automatically send their estimated time of arrival to a designated recipient whenever they leave home. Apple Intelligence calculates the ETA based on the user's location and sends the correct time without any manual configuration.

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[breather]

That’s a real powerful tool!

 

[Oestreich Dieter]

I hope it works as described. I have some complex shortcuts already, I am going to test and see if it can replicate them by just describing them.

 

[Avidos1]

They effectively announced this last year, but then didn’t deliver. Let’s hope they can this time as it will be a great set if features

 

[mattaaron]

This is great, even as a developer I get a bit overwhelmed going into shortcuts to do things, love this

 

[Frantisekj]

This is shame, that Shortcust and Safari extensions creation are limited to on device Apple AI. This deserve public access and server based version.

 

[youknownow]

I hope it works as described. I have some complex shortcuts already, I am going to test and see if it can replicate them by just describing them.

I have some that help download videos from any webpage, i didnt make them but i found them online and they look very complex, I would surprised if it can do some of this but excited to see.

 

[StuBeck]

I have some that help download videos from any webpage, i didnt make them but i found them online and they look very complex, I would surprised if it can do some of this but excited to see.

There is no way it won't be able to do this since its built on tools that can do this very easily. The issue will be user's blindly trusting that what you asked for is what it heard, and creating an automation that does something different than what they asked.

 

[NT1440]

This is laying the groundwork for the future of UX…

 

[svish]

Much needed. Sometimes it can indeed become a bit complicated. This should make it very easy to create new Shortcuts.

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

Boo, I was hoping for widgets 🙁

This is cool too I just don’t think there’s any actions in Shortcuts I’m actually interested in