Shortcuts in iOS 16: The Potential of App Shortcuts for Everyone

A note from Federico: This year, I’ve decided to try some new things for my annual iOS 16 review. Some you’ll see on Monday. One of them is previewing small excerpts from the review in the OS Preview ... Read More

Top 50 iPad Apps: The Best Apps in Every Category for Your New Tablet

ABC News handpicked the 50 best ... category of apps is all about connecting with others – one of the iPad's greatest strengths. If you are a Twitter addict, Twitter's official app is a must ... Read More

iOS 16 Review Extras: eBooks, Shortcuts, Making Of, and an Obsidian Plugin

This year’s iOS review includes some fascinating refinements to last year’s workflow. In Saturday’s column, Federico will explain the shortcuts, plugins, apps ... modes and filters, App Shortcuts, ... Read More

The right shortcuts can give your iPhone superpowers. Here’s how.

You can activate your shortcuts in different ways, like tapping on them inside the Shortcuts app or your homescreen, asking Siri to launch them, or assigning them to your iPhone’s action button — if ... Read More

LockFlow: A Simple Way to Add Shortcuts to the iOS 16 Lock Screen

A shortcut isn’t worth building if invoking it is more trouble than doing the same thing another way. Fortunately, that’s rarely the case because shortcuts can be triggered in so many ways. Still, you ... Read More

Lock Screen One: Text Widgets for Your iOS 16 Lock Screen Automated with Shortcuts

Yesterday, I covered Widgetsmith, which among many other things, can display whatever text you’d like in an iOS 16 Lock Screen widget. Lock Screen One is a new app from Sindre Sorhus, the maker of ... Read More

GoodLinks 1.7: New iOS 16 Shortcuts Actions, Focus Filter Support, Lock Screen Widgets, and More

and a robust URL scheme all play a part in making GoodLinks such a model for modern apps. With iOS 16, developer Ngoc Luu has updated GoodLinks with a set of new features that further extend the ... Read More

Upcoming iOS 18 iPhone update tipped to include new Notes app voice recording and math features as WWDC 2024 nears

If Apple sticks to the familiar cadence we can expect it to announce the iOS 18 software update at WWDC in June before releasing it to the public in the fall. And while we're still a couple of months ... Read More

Software & Apps News - Page 1

After years of preventing developers from releasing apps that emulate games from other devices into the iPhone's App Store ... it means there's work left to be done." That last big issue is ... Read More

Custom Shortcut Icons No Longer Open the Shortcuts App First in iOS 14.3 Beta 2

Juli Clover, writing at MacRumors about a tweak to Shortcuts in iOS 14.3 beta 2: Apple in iOS 14.3 is streamlining the Home Screen customization process by simplifying the way that app shortcuts work ... Read More

Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation

In my Future of Workflow article from last year (published soon after the news ... an app that you can easily find again. In Apple’s parlance, shortcuts are “donated” by apps to the system after a ... Read More

Some of Apple’s Forgotten iOS Apps

Apple has just about always offered iOS apps on the App Store ... And it’s available from iTunes for just $4.99. images via iMore. Jonathan Seff at Macworld was impressed by the app’s visuals: The ... Read More