What if you could turn your Mac into a personal assistant that handles tedious tasks with just a few clicks? Imagine summarizing lengthy articles, organizing recipes, or saving key insights into Apple ...

Using keyboard shortcuts is a lot faster than clicking around in the menus, but only after you learn them. That's the hard part. You could look up the documentation ...

Describe a Shortcut translates natural-language requests into working automations, making one of iOS’s most powerful tools ...

Long-time 9to5Mac readers will remember that the native Shortcuts app started as an indie project called Workflow, a clever, approachable tool that made automation fun and accessible to less technical ...

Apple is rumored to be adding an AI feature for creating shortcuts with natural language to the Shortcuts app in iOS 27, but MacStories' Federico Viticci has a clever AI tool for making shortcuts that ...

I mentioned this on AppStories during the week of WWDC: I think Apple’s new ‘Use Model’ action in Shortcuts for iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26, which lets you prompt either the local or cloud-based Apple ...

Apple's new 'Describe a Shortcut' tool, announced at WWDC 2026, takes the anxiety out of building and running automations.

Boy, have things changed. A lot. When I started writing at MacStories over a decade ago, there was a long list of beloved ...