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Shortcuts blew me away when I saw what you could do. I assumed based on the demo that it was pretty limited, but you can set variables, loop, execute remote SSH
by chillacy 8y ago
Shortcuts blew me away when I saw what you could do. I assumed based on the demo that it was pretty limited, but you can set variables, loop, execute remote SSH commands, call into APIs, execute Python, etc. And it comes with API access to send iMessages/read contacts/etc. The fact that it's so much easier to write an automation "script" or shortcut than swift code is huge!
- frutiger 8y agoThe System 7 OS on Macs introduced AppleScript[1] which offered a similar set of features (but designed for the 90s). 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
- saagarjha 8y agoAppleScript is still around, as part of OSA, which now includes JavaScript support.
- jrcii 8y agoThey should make it AppleScript only. What a joy it is to debug
- dingdongding 8y agoThis had been possible with iOS before. It was this workflow app (https://workflow.is/ https://workflow.is/) which app bought to integrate more natively in iOS
- zimpenfish 8y agoSadly with some crazy UX changes - tapping on an action used to open it but now it runs it (which has caused me a few misfires already!) Plus the "pick an action from the list" is now a scroll-up pane rather than a scroll-sideways pane making it horribly more clunky to find what you're after.