At WWDC 2025, Apple introduces an AI-powered Shortcuts app
At WWDC 2025, Apple confirmed off a brand new AI-powered Shortcuts app.
The corporate says Shortcuts can now faucet into Apple Intelligence immediately, and builders will be capable of entry Apple’s on-device massive language mannequin (LLM).
With Shortcuts, customers will be capable of entry the AI fashions both on system or with Non-public Compute to generate responses that feed into the remainder of their shortcut. As an 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 of 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 photographs 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 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 less-technically inclined, who’ve seemingly averted utilizing the app that has to date been extra part of an influence consumer’s toolkit.
For instance, standard shortcuts right this moment may also 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 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 a minimum of really feel extra environment friendly. (Should you’re prepared to place within the work round shortcut creation, that’s.)