Apple significantly improves its Shortcuts app with Apple Intelligence

Apple’s Shortcuts app
Apple’s often-overlooked Shortcuts app — the powerful tool for creating custom automations on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — just received a major upgrade thanks to Apple Intelligence.
New AI-powered actions let you summarize text, proofread, generate images, clean up lists, or even run custom prompts through on-device models, Apple’s cloud, or ChatGPT (no subscription required). As WIRED explains in this piece, these additions finally make it easy to build smart, real-world shortcuts that handle messy inputs and turn them into useful outputs — transforming Shortcuts from niche hobby into everyday superpower.
Justin Pot for Wired:
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Head to Apple Shortcuts, create a new shortcut, and you’ll see “Apple Intelligence” as one of the listed applications that’s supported. There are a few Actions related to text, allowing you to do things like proofread, summarize, and make a list from text. You also get the ability to create an image, if you want.
For my money, though, the most useful Action offered is “Use Model,” mostly because of how open-ended it is. With this you can choose between three models—the totally offline and private model running on your device, a server offered by Apple using the same models, or even ChatGPT (no subscription or API key necessary)…
I don’t think the chatbot will ultimately be the primary way most of us actually use AI in the coming years. Apple’s Shortcuts, which empowers the user to build things using the technology, is the version of this technology I would like to see catch on—a feature that makes existing tools a little bit better.

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