Shortcuts, the automation suite for iPhone and iPad, is now available for Mac and it's great—as long as it works.
Why You Should Use the Shortcuts App on Mac
In the initial release of macOS Monterey, Shortcuts is pretty unreliable. The interface is glitchy, and several basic actions don’t even work. But despite this, Shortcuts is a big thing for the Mac. It makes it easy, almost trivial, to automate the apps you already use. Better yet, many apps have added Mac Shortcuts support within days of release.
“I still think Shortcuts will happen, and I believe Apple is committed to Shortcuts on the Mac, but the version of Shortcuts that shipped with Monterey is still more of a promise than a workable solution,” writes Apple watcher and podcaster John Voorhees in Mac Stories.
Mac users have had automation options for years, from AppleScript to Automator to just about every other programming language. But Shortcuts, born on iOS, is a more modern system that’s far easier to use and in many ways more powerful than those older methods.
