Name: Shortcuts
Rating: 4.2 (411 reviews)
Author: Apple

Description

Siri Shortcuts deliver a quick way to get things done with your apps with just a tap or by asking Siri. The Shortcuts app enables you to create personal shortcuts with multiple steps from your favourite apps. Start from hundreds of examples in the Gallery or drag and drop to create your own.

Shortcuts includes over 300 built-in actions and works with many of your favourite apps including Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari, Health as well as any app that supports Siri Shortcuts.

Use the Shortcuts app to:
* Get directions home, send your ETA and start listening to the news, just by asking Siri
* Add a Home screen icon that calls a loved one
* Make animated GIFs
* Make PDFs from Safari or any app with a share sheet
* Get directions to the nearest cafe in one tap
* Tweet the song you're listening to
* Get all the images on a webpage
* Send a message including the last screenshot you took
* And so much more...

Shortcuts can be launched from the Today widget, from Search or by asking Siri. You can even add an app icon to your Home screen for your favourite Shortcuts.

Shortcuts opens up incredible possibilities to automate things you do regularly on your iPhone and iPad.

What’s New

7 Feb 2019

Version 2.1.3

• Bug fixes and improvements

4.2 out of 5

411 Ratings

As seen in WWDC, but with one big problem

It’s great. But here in China Shortcut has some serious blundering in address regarding shortcuts regarding the Maps app. When address input is in Chinese (with iPhone language set Chinese), the Shortcut seems to disregard anything in address line one and two and province and only registers contents in the “country/region” column. This produces ludicrous results. I entered the address of subway station in full (with the country/region filled “中国”—China), only to have it redirecting me to somewhere way north (I am in Guangzhou, which is not far from HK).

I guess the reason is that address in Chinese is written the reverse way as in English, starting with country name and ending with specific street#. But Shortcut apparently does not realize this. It mistakes “中国” in the first line (as anything searched by Maps is put) as the street name. For a specific place I could manually enter the street name in country/region column with everything else blank, but for anything that’s done by Shortcut and Maps, like “Walk to Coffee Shop”, there’s basically no way that it can be used. Plz fix this ASAP🤔

Not useful

These are all surface level things that I don’t need quick fixes for. I tried making my own but it seems I can’t make them change actual things on my phone. I’ve been trying to learn a new language and one of the ways to do this is to immerse yourself in the language and learn by context. So I decided to try and make a shortcut that would let me change the language with a tap of a short cut and back again so if I actually have to text. BUT I CAN’T! So what’s the point? I don’t need a button to play my playlist from my home screen that what the music widget is for! So what is the point of this app???

I’m sure somebody gets use out of this but, these seem like such specific things. Obviously my thing is specific too, but if you’re going to pander to these specific things. Why not mine? I don’t know any way to share this request so I wrote this review. But I have no clue if this will be seen sooo... 😕🤷‍♂️

Workflow+

As a big fan of Workflow, it's good to see it gaining some deeper hooks into the operating system now that it's an official app. Some of the new actions are handy, but the best part is the potential, both with Siri integration but more importantly with 3rd party apps now being able do define their own "shortcuts" that can be used here.

The only thing I miss is the IFTTT integration. I'm working around it currently by using webhooks, but hopefully IFTTT can publish shortcuts from their end soon to fill the gap.

The other gap which still remains (which was also the case with Workflow) is integration with Google products. Some may get implemented from Google's end, but Files support will need to come from Apple.

Information

Seller: Apple Pty Limited
Size: 141.3 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Age Rating: Rated 4+
Copyright: © 2018 Apple Inc.
Price: Free