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   How to build iPhone Shortcuts with Apple Intelligence (and why it's worth it)

   Engadget's writer tested Shortcuts' natural-language generation on iOS 27 with an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone: open the Shortcuts app, tap the “+” button and describe the automation you want, and the AI assembles the actions, which can still be edited like any normal shortcut. He says the feature rarely refuses outright but often returns a solution that doesn't do what was asked — a request to “turn my iPhone off when the battery goes below 20 percent” merely locked the screen, and toggling grayscale in and out of Instagram took two shortcuts to get right. Separately, manually built shortcuts can use a “Use Model” action that routes requests to Cloud, Cloud Pro, On-Device models or ChatGPT and feeds the response into later steps. Results are hit or miss, he warns, so tap Edit and check the assembled actions before relying on them.

   Engadget AI · 🔥 3
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   iOS 27 Shortcuts adds natural-language creation, new triggers and more AI model options

   TechRepublic rounds up changes to Shortcuts in iOS 27: users can describe a workflow in natural language and Apple Intelligence turns it into a shortcut they can test, revise or edit before saving, while the manual editor remains. Apple added Screenshot, Keyboard and Notification automation triggers, and automations now sit in the same editor as shortcut actions and sync across devices. The Use Model action now offers On-Device, Cloud, Cloud Pro and an Extension Model that uses ChatGPT, with newer models able to retrieve current web information when supported and a new model transcript for inspecting what was sent to a model.

   TechRepublic · 🔥 0

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