Remember the iPod Music Quiz game? It played snippets of songs from your library and you had to guess the melody. Now the same game is available on your iPhone. Where? It’s a shortcut in the Shortcuts automation app.
Create shortcuts that accept voice input
Shortcuts lets you automate almost anything on your iPhone, iPad, or your HomeKit devices. By simply dragging a few steps into the order you want them to play out, you can create amazing and surprisingly powerful automations. Many people look at the Shortcuts app and think it’s overly complex, but it’s the exact opposite. Using shortcuts actually makes things simpler, faster, and easier. You can even download shortcuts created by others.
“It’s interesting to stop and look for patterns in your [daily life],” Simon B. Støvring, developer of the Shortcuts companion app Scriptable, told Lifewire via direct message. “If there’s a pattern of behavior, something you do every day, maybe there’s an opportunity to build a shortcut that makes it easier.”
Shortcuts is an iPhone (and iPad) app that lets you build simple or complex automations by dragging "action blocks" into a list. These action blocks are provided by your apps, and many are built in. When you activate a shortcut, these blocks are executed in sequence.
