With the release of iOS 18, Apple Intelligence is now integrated directly into the Shortcuts app, unlocking a new level of powerful automation. You can now use AI to summarize documents, transcribe audio, generate content, and analyze images right on your device. This release makes it easier than ever to build intelligent, context-aware workflows that save you time and effort
You can now use Apple Intelligence to quickly understand long documents and articles without reading them in full. Run shortcuts on PDFs, websites, or Apple News articles to generate concise summaries and lists of key points. You can even create an automation to automatically summarize email attachments as they arrive, delivering the key information directly to you in a notification.
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Turn your rough ideas into polished content with just a tap. Dictate your thoughts and have them automatically organized into structured bullet points, or transform a simple note into a professionally written email, complete with a subject line. You can also repurpose existing content, such as a web article, into multiple social media posts and a full blog post, all from a single shortcut.
Apple Intelligence brings powerful media analysis capabilities to your shortcuts. You can now transcribe audio files into text and then generate a summary, or ask for detailed descriptions of what's in an image. This enables advanced workflows like automatically sorting photos based on whether they contain people or extracting a full color palette with hex codes from any picture.
Build entirely new kinds of automations powered by AI. You can generate unique wallpapers for your iPhone using Image Playground, create a conversational assistant with memory that keeps track of your conversation history, or set up a folder action on your Mac to automatically sort documents based on their content.
Shortcuts can now intelligently extract and format information from websites and APIs, even without a formal structure. Save recipes from social media into a clean format in Notes, find out where a movie is streaming, or get a consolidated schedule for your favorite sports teams from their websites. Apple Intelligence can even parse complex API data to pull out exactly what you need, like the high temperature for the day from a weather API.
This release transforms what's possible with Shortcuts by integrating Apple Intelligence directly into the app's core functions. You can now build more powerful, flexible, and intelligent automations that understand context, summarize information, and interact with data in new ways. These tools allow you to save time by automating complex tasks across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.