Apple today announced that users can now describe a shortcut in natural language, with Apple Intelligence automatically creating the automation in the background.
Previously, creating shortcut automation required users to manually create step-by-step workflows, making the feature largely reserved for more technically-minded users. With the next update, users can simply describe what they want a shortcut to do in plain English text, and ‌Apple Intelligence‌ then handles the construction.
Apple demonstrated this feature with a practical example: a user asks the Shortcuts app to automatically send their estimated arrival time to a designated recipient every time they leave home. ‌Apple Intelligence‌ calculates the ETA based on the user’s location and sends the correct time without any manual configuration.
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