Next time your Mac is too slow, or you're having to keep repeating the same steps on your iPhone, learn Shortcuts and it will dramatically improve your speed — and even accuracy. Editor's note: This ...

While many newer social media platforms, such as Clubhouse and Instagram’s Threads, are slowly losing their charm, Snapchat still stands as a timeless icon. There’s no rocket science behind this ...

Life’s a beach — without this iPad weather shortcut. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The iPad infamously still lacks a built-in weather app. There are plenty of ways around this — you can ask Siri, ...

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Apple’s Shortcuts app provides a host of predefined shortcuts, many designed for work and business. Here are 10 of the most useful ones. Your iPhone and iPad offer a Shortcuts app, which lets you ...

We're well past the point where calling our little pocket computers "phones" stopped making sense, but we're probably stuck with the name. Smartphones and tablets are incredible machines that do a ...

Create iOS shortcuts using AI by installing Federico Viticci’s open-source Shortcuts Playground plugin with Anthropic’s Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex on a Mac. Just describe the shortcut in natural ...

The iPhone got access to Shortcuts way back in iOS 12, giving you ways of combining different apps and tasks together to get stuff done—from calculating journey times and texting someone the details ...

You can place the Settings app — or a shortcut to any specific setting — directly on your Android home screen so it opens in a single tap. The exact method ...