At WWDC 2025, Apple showed off a brand new AI-powered Shortcuts app.
The corporate says Shortcuts can now faucet into Apple Intelligence straight, and builders will be capable to entry Apple’s on-device giant language mannequin (LLM).
With Shortcuts, customers will be capable to entry the AI fashions both on system or with Personal Compute to generate responses that feed into the remainder of their shortcut. For example, a pupil might create a shortcut that makes use of AI to match their audio transcription of their class lecture to their notes, then add key factors they missed. They will 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 kind of shortcut that’s enabled by Apple Intelligence. For 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 yr of an AI-enhanced improve to its digital assistant Siri, providing extra customized options and help. Nonetheless, Apple then pushed again the launch, saying it will 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 adjustments might make Shortcuts simpler to make use of for the much less technically inclined, who’ve doubtless averted utilizing the app that has to this point been extra part of an influence consumer’s toolkit.
For instance, in style shortcuts in the present day might help you do issues like make customized memes or GIFs, create assembly notes, monitor time spent on sure actions, create playlists, save PDFs, discover out the place a photograph was taken, set location-based reminders, pace dial a good friend, mix screenshots, shorten URLs, obtain recordsdata, save objects to learn later, and extra.
The replace might 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 might make utilizing the iPhone no less than really feel extra environment friendly. (Should you’re keen to place within the work round shortcut creation, that’s.)