Whether you prefer to use a Mac or a Windows PC, you might think you know all your computer’s secrets. After all, you use it every day, and modern technology is supposed to be so intuitive that you ...

Whether you're a student or a professional, you likely open Google Docs pretty often. It's a powerful tool not only for drafting reports and essays from scratch but also for editing documents shared ...

This weekend I made a shortcut that takes a list of songs, adds up the total duration, and shows it in a notification. The first part was easy. The Shortcuts app has a great action that can tell you ...

iOS Shortcuts can turn your iPhone into a true productivity powerhouse. From downloading X or Spotify videos to sharing your ETA, logging water, ejecting water from speakers, or even automating ...

Apple’s Shortcuts app offers tremendous power, especially with new iOS 26 additions. But my own most-used shortcuts tend to be extremely simple, including one recently shared by Quinn Nelson for ...

For this installment of Shortcuts Rewind, I’m going to focus on date and calendar actions. I’ll also touch on some of the Shortcuts actions that Apple Maps offers and explain dictionaries. I wanted to ...

While this may sound very basic to some users, others may find it useful. I received a couple of emails in the last few months asking me to prepare a basic tutorial on how to create shortcuts. So in ...

Over the past several years, Federico has built hundreds of shortcuts that are sprinkled throughout the stories he’s written. Last spring we debuted the MacStories Shortcuts Archive, a one-stop ...

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 ...