At WWDC 2025, Apple confirmed off a brand new AI-powered Shortcuts app.
The corporate says Shortcuts can now faucet into Apple Intelligence instantly, and builders will be capable to entry Apple’s on-device massive language mannequin (LLM).
With Shortcuts, customers will be capable to entry the AI fashions both on gadget or with Personal Compute to generate responses that feed into the remainder of their shortcut. As an example, a scholar may create a shortcut that makes use of AI to check their audio transcription of their class lecture to their notes, then add key factors they missed. They’ll additionally faucet into ChatGPT to offer additional responses that feed into their shortcut’s enter.
Customers will be capable to faucet into clever actions, that are a brand new sort of shortcut that’s enabled by Apple Intelligence. As an example, there are devoted actions like these for summarizing textual content with AI (Apple Intelligence’s Writing Instruments) or creating photos with Picture Playground.
Apple says the brand new options can be found for testing beginning Monday.
The AI-assisted Shortcuts app follows the corporate’s announcement final 12 months of an AI-enhanced improve to its digital assistant Siri, providing extra personalised options and help. Nonetheless, Apple then pushed again the launch, saying it might take longer to ship than anticipated.
At WWDC 2025, the corporate continued to make AI guarantees, together with the introduction of an up to date model of its Shortcuts app for scripting and automation.
These AI modifications may make Shortcuts simpler to make use of for the less-technically inclined, who’ve probably prevented utilizing the app that has to date been extra part of an influence consumer’s toolkit.
For instance, widespread shortcuts right now will help you do issues like make customized memes or GIFs, create assembly notes, observe time spent on sure actions, create playlists, save PDFs, discover out the place a photograph was taken, set location-based reminders, speed-dial a good friend, mix screenshots, shorten URLs, obtain information, save objects to learn later, and extra.
The replace may additionally work as one thing of a stop-gap for Apple’s delays to totally improve Siri with AI capabilities, as leveraging AI-assisted automation may make utilizing the iPhone a minimum of really feel extra environment friendly. (For those who’re keen to place within the work round shortcut creation, that’s.)
