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iOS 27 Makes the Shortcuts App Much Less Intimidating

Radeon85 said:
Same, then I gave up after playing with it, as it was too complicated for anyone who doesn’t have a little bit of programming knowledge for complicated automations.

I did use it to create simple shortcuts a long time ago, but other than that I gave up. I did try using Gemini to help make one, but even that didn’t go well when Apple renames or moves something. I love using this now, now that I can just use simple English and then go in later and maybe tweak it a bit.
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Honestly I’m kinda viewing the AI effort in the same vein. The one thing I used the shortcuts app to do was to start a radio feed from another app. Basically something I could just do with the same ease from opening the app myself. From what I’ve seen of the Apple AI, it basically just reads info from other apps. Not sure I’m willing to shell out thousands in forced hardware upgrades for this.
 
Living in EU, I’m not going to get access to this, but it’s an interesting development.
I do hope that also includes Apple have made even the simplest Home automations possible - such as turn something off x minutes after someone or something turned it on. AMAZING you cannot do that without some obscure workaround triggering a focus mode and what not.
 
Still to "make a sound" "beep" "do an alert noise" ?

Best thing that could happen to shortcuts is to be as fully integrated with Home Automation as makes sense. A general purpose Shortcuts wouldn't have to surface a list of new actions ... actions that make sense should be able to be assembled by AI as long as they are safe.
 
So will this FINALLY give me a working shortcut again to shazam a song and automatically add it to the library?
 
cjsuk said:
I think it’s more that shortcuts is a programming language. And a visual one. And no one gets either of those. And the compromises it forces to make it a visual one makes it terrible.

OpenClaw is just a way of turning that into something usable. However it relies on interpretation of intent which is not deterministic so this will mean a lot of people shouting NO THATS NOT WHAT I MEAN.

If we can’t describe things accurately on the professional side of programming and engineering, then this is never going to work for other folk. Not unless we teach everyone formal languages for describing systems.
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You made a very interesting point!
 
triumvirate said:
Can I say “Siri, set a shortcut to only authenticate my payment methods with Apple products if Apple decides to stop price-gouging its customers while it sits on all that cash”?
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Apple raised their prices after everyone else did a year ago. Exactly how long are you expecting them to subsidize your wants, why should everyone with a 401(k) earn less because of your wants, and when was the last time you offered to reduce your salary so that your boss has an easier time dealing with rising costs?
 
CapitalIdea said:
Apple raised their prices after everyone else did a year ago. Exactly how long are you expecting them to subsidize your wants, why should everyone with a 401(k) earn less because of your wants, and when was the last time you offered to reduce your salary so that your boss has an easier time dealing with rising costs?
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Apple was already gouging people for device prices/upgrades at the point of purchase (since, as we know, can’t do it afterwards bc Apple RAM magic soldering). This wasn’t because they were subsidizing anything. It was purely maintaining profit margins and to maintain bonuses. See the increased refurb prices on old devices and the bizarre increases on things like HomePods & Apple TV, which hasn’t seen real updates in ages.

Apple themselves are contributing to the rising costs along with all the other companies pushing AI so hard. I have no sympathy for Apple and will call their nonsense when I see it, and it does not absolve the other companies in any way.

I can’t control a thing that Apple does and I’m fully aware of that. I can control what I choose to purchase in the future and going forward, my wallet will be opening to new Apple products WAY less than it has to this point. If other people feel the same and their sales take a hit, it will be beautifully deserved.
 
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Hey, Siri.

How about "If .. Else If .. Then" statements or maybe even "Conditional Cases"?

How about toggle Face ID / Touch ID on/off (with passcode for on?

How about toggle Lockdown Mode (with passcode for off)?
 
Radeon85 said:
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Made another one to allow me to resize photos to either a simple small, medium, large, or enter my own custom resolution while converting it to jpeg: simple tool, and I no longer need those crappy third-party apps to do that, which are full of ads or demand a subscription.
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Wondering: Manually resizing photos w/ custom resolution possible as of 27 too?
 
Can it work from a spreadsheet yet?
(Excel, Numbers, csv)

It would be exceptionally useful to read each row when doing loops.
 
Pixelmator Pro is broken with Shortcuts as of b2. Every time you get to a Pixelmator action, it just gives you an "app error". Also Siri doesn't seem to be able to work with third-party (or in this case, previously third party) apps when asking to create or edit shortcuts.
 
Shortcuts are rubbish in beta 2.

Broke my "iPhone is fully charged" voice notification, no longer available to set up.

Even more stupid, unintuitive, Apple terminology too.
 
Radeon85 said:
I wanted a simple shortcut to resize photos, but I wouldn’t have had a clue where to start making this.

Now it’s stupidly easy to use, and anyone can use it. Good luck asking your average tech-illiterate person to make this shortcut in a few seconds.
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I agree that it is nice to have more options that save you time or downloading a separate app. But resizing photos should neither require AI, nor Shortcuts, nor tech-literacy — simply just availability. Scaling images manually should have been possible in Photos many iOS cycles ago. I am on 18 and it still isn’t. It requires the detour of sharing the image to Mail to be able to apply limited large, medium, small scaling. Oddly enough, Photos on Mac has always had this function.
 
triumvirate said:
Apple was already gouging people for device prices/upgrades at the point of purchase (since, as we know, can’t do it afterwards bc Apple RAM magic soldering). This wasn’t because they were subsidizing anything. It was purely maintaining profit margins and to maintain bonuses. See the increased refurb prices on old devices and the bizarre increases on things like HomePods & Apple TV, which hasn’t seen real updates in ages.

Apple themselves are contributing to the rising costs along with all the other companies pushing AI so hard. I have no sympathy for Apple and will call their nonsense when I see it, and it does not absolve the other companies in any way.

I can’t control a thing that Apple does and I’m fully aware of that. I can control what I choose to purchase in the future and going forward, my wallet will be opening to new Apple products WAY less than it has to this point. If other people feel the same and their sales take a hit, it will be beautifully deserved.
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You can’t accuse a company of “gouging” when they are simply pricing things at the maximum that the market will bear. You don’t NEED to buy a MacBook Pro. You do need things like food and fuel in a disaster. This isn’t that. It’s just a luxury/premium product that, frankly, was pretty fairly priced vs the competition. Now it’s a little more expensive. If you want to go ahead and jump brands, have at it. You’ll pay increased prices with every other company as well, so the tantrum will ultimately accomplish nothing.

And as I’ve reminded people for years, Apple has NEVER targeted the downmarket price point. That’s the reason the Neo pricing was such huge news at all.
 
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