Learn how to use the Mac Automator Calendar Alarms to speed up your regular tasks and have a more productive and smooth experience.
How to speed up tasks with Automator and Calendar Alarms on Mac
Automation
How to automatically play a presentation and time slides in Keynote
Learn how to use the self-playing feature in Apple Keynotes on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac to automatically play a presentation and advance slides without user intervention.
How to run Quick Action workflows from your Mac’s Touch Bar
Learn how to add Automator workflows that are saved as Quick Actions to the Touch Bar of your Mac. Doing so will let you easily run your favorite macOS automation shortcuts at any time because they’ll be just two taps away.
How to create your own Mac Finder Quick Actions
If you like using Quick Actions on your Mac to do things faster, why not make your own? This tutorial shows you how to create custom Quick Actions for Finder.
How to assign your favorite apps or custom automation shortcuts to the stock Lock Screen and Control Center toggles
With the power of iOS automation, you can open a different app when you tap the app icon of another app. Confused? It's pretty awesome and useful for several cases.
Also coming to macOS 10.15: Shortcuts, Screen Time, iMessage effects & other iOS features
Shortcuts, Screen Time, iMessage effects, better Siri, streamlined Apple ID management and other iOS features are coming to your Mac with the major new macOS 10.15 software, which will be previewed at WWDC 2019 on June 3 ahead of launch some time this fall.
Shortcuts Focus: enforcing Picture in Picture on YouTube & other unsupported websites on iPad
Your iPad supports Picture in Picture (PiP) videos in apps and webpages, but this handy mode isn't universally supported across all video-streaming websites. Crucially, PiP is unsupported by YouTube.com's iPad interface on Safari. But there's a shortcut for that, too—thanks to the power of iOS automation, you can enforce Picture in Picture on YouTube and other websites.
How to create and use Smart Folders on Mac
Learn how to enhance your Mac’s organization and boost productivity by creating and using Smart Folders in Finder.
Shortcuts Focus: getting Dark Mode on virtually any website
Darkened interfaces look good in apps, not so much on websites. The problem is, web content remains a major source of visual inconsistency as far as the popular Dark Mode feature is concerned. Thankfully, you can get a Dark Mode-alike environment on almost any website thanks to a handy Dark Mode V2 shortcut for your iPhone and iPad.
Shortcuts 2.1.2 update brings two new handy actions for your iOS automation workflows
Apple today released iOS 12.1.1 along with a bunch of updates to its other operating systems (sans watchOS), plus a minor update to its Shortcuts app.
A quick look at Siri Shortcuts
In iOS 12, Apple introduces Siri Shortcuts, which lets you pair your daily routines with third-party apps. Better still, Siri learns your habits and make suggestions based on that knowledge.
Watch HomePod execute Siri Shortcut automation scripts on other devices
Shortcuts, Apple's new vision for Siri and automation on the iOS platform, is a new feature in iOS 12 that many power users and fans of the Workflow automation app will appreciate a lot.