iOS 27 Shortcuts App May Write Custom Actions for You Using AI

[Mac Fly (film)]

Not sure about Apple development of such a tool, but this. Maybe not as replacement for Photoshop, Indesign and other classics… but a tool that seamlessly blends manual design UX work and AI input plus output of working code for Prototyping Apps and Sites would be a killer product.

Such app design features from Apple are surely inevitable. Same for OS input in general. Select icon in finder > input command > rotate clockwise 90 º and make five copies. Rename this file (speaks name). Zip this file and send it as an email to (says contact name) with the subject matter “The new logo, what do you think?”. (inspects email) > sign the email “John” and send it.

 

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You can display the upcoming directions in CarPlay. It won't keep the phone unlocked (Driving Focus) if the phone is in the same app that CarPlay is. Especially since the expected scenario is that you have an Apple Watch and the upcoming turns etc. are displayed there (and haptically notified ahead of the turn.)

My phone is usually in the Music app showing lyrics to the folks in the back seat while I'm driving using Maps on CarPlay. It stays awake to show those.

Yeah I've used the lyrics feature. It's just a total mystery to me, somewhere around iOS17 Google and Apple Maps just kept putting the phone to sleep, so now I manually set it to stay unlocked but I really don't like having to do that in case I forget to put it back on etc.