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Do they mean to use Shortcuts instead of Automator? It does seem Apple moved their focus to Shortcuts, which does cover the features Automator has (at least for
by slmjkdbtl 2y ago
Do they mean to use Shortcuts instead of Automator? It does seem Apple moved their focus to Shortcuts, which does cover the features Automator has (at least for my use cases, curious to hear the differences and the state of these 2 apps from people more informed)
- nerdjon 2y agoYou know, I always forget the shortcuts has come to Mac. I use it quite a bit on my iPhone but have yet to really explore it on my Mac. But that is a really good point, I am curious why both continue to exist except for not wanting to break existing Automator... automations? I am not sure what they are called. Autommator does still have the major functionality (when it works) of being able to record your actions and just do those. Which shortcuts cannot do. Apparently you can just convert automator to shortcuts: https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/use-your-workflows-with-shortcuts-autc12e3fb97/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/use-your-workflows... I would bet that it is the "record" functionality keeping it around (beyond just the "multi-year transition" apple said they were doing in 2021), but maybe there are some other power features that are unavailable in shortcuts yet.