This One-Step Apple Shortcut Could Quickly Become Your New Favorite

Apple’s Shortcuts app packs a ton of power, especially with iOS 26’s additions around AI. But my most used shortcuts tend to be extremely simple, including the one shared by Quinn Nelson for opening an app’s settings.

In iOS 18, Apple completely redesigned the iPhone’s Settings app. And unfortunately, this redesign has made it more difficult to access an app’s settings menu.

But last fall, Quinn Nelson shared a shortcut that makes opening an app’s Settings screen much faster and easier than before. All you have to do is:

1. Install this “App Settings” shortcut in one step
2. Add a Control Center “Run Shortcut” control
3. Assign this control to your new “App Settings” shortcut

Once setup is complete, the next time you use an app and want to open its settings, you can simply:

• swipe to open control center
• run shortcut
• and you will go directly to the right section of the Settings app

Here’s Nelson’s screen recording to show what it looks like:

Since I first installed the shortcut, it has quickly become a contender for my most used daily shortcut.

Initially, it took some mental adjustment to stop me from automatically closing my current app, going to Settings, searching for the correct app name, and finding the app settings from there.

But now that I have gotten used to this new method, it has saved me a lot of time.

Sometimes the simplest shortcuts really are the best.

What are your favorite Apple shortcuts? Let us know in the comments.

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