New video: Membership discounts on great Shortcuts apps!
Check out my video announcing the first set of partner apps with Shortcuts support who are offering discounts – watch on YouTube.
Matthew Cassinelli
Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips
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New Member Discount: Get Monologue For Three Months Free
Developer Naveen Naidu has offered 3 months free off the annual subscription – I've been using this smart dictation app non-stop for 6 months now.
Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone (The Path to a Positive AI Future) »
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook/Meta, has shared his vision of the future as it relates to AI.
New Member Discount: Get Email Me For Three Months Free
My thanks to developer Manuel Escrig for offering three months free off his app Email Me – check out his Shortcuts support!
MacRumors: Apple Briefly Posts China Guide for Connecting Siri to Qwen AI »
Apple accidentally posted a guide suggesting Qwen AI will be their primary provider for Siri in China, rather than Google's Gemini models.
What’s New in Shortcuts in iOS 27 Beta 5
Apple has a new splash screen covering the three main features in iOS 27: Describe a Shortcut, Broad World Knowledge, and Unified Automations.
New Discount: Get Auralog For 50% Off The First Year
Adrian Eves has offered 50% his migraine tracking app Auralog – try out the Shortcuts that I helped him build!
Conference: I Am Speaking At NSSpain 2026 On Siri AI
I'll be returning to NSSpain to cover Siri AI with a deep dive into App Intents, two years after my talk "Preparing your App for Apple Intelligence." Join me in Logroño!
New Member Discount: Get One Sec For Three Months Free
My thanks to Frederik Riedel for offering three months free of One Sec – take back control of your Screen Time with Shortcuts Automations that make you think twice.
New Member Discount: Get Cuevello 50% Off One-Time
Developer Matthias Hühne has offered 50% off the one-time Cuevello Pro Unlock — $4.49 instead of $8.99, with no renewal or recurring subscription.
New Member Discount: Get MindNode For 30% Off The First Year
Markus from MindNode has offered 30% off the first year – and I helped build their Shortcuts integration. Get brainstorming today!
New Member Discount: Get Tasks For 50% Off The Lifetime Purchase
Developer Mustafa Yusuf has generously offered 50% off the lifetime subscription of Tasks, his kanban to-do list app – thanks Mustafa!
New Member Discount: Get Progress For 50% Off The First Year
My thanks to developer Stephen Hayes for offering 50% your first year of Progress – get tracking with Shortcuts!
New Member Discount: Get Paku Pro For 50% Off The First Year
Kyle Bashour from Paku has joined my Partner Apps program to offer a 50% off Paku Pro for the first year – that's $6.99 savings.
New Member Discount: Get Plinky Pro For 50% Off The First Year
Developer Joe Fabisevich has offered 50% off the first year of Plinky for subscribers of my membership program.
You need to try this CarPlay customization trick that no one talks about »
Nate Pangaro from How-To Geek explains how to use Shortcuts automations for CarPlay to play a custom sound.
New Member Discount: Get Together Board For 50% Off The First Year
Developer Cory Bohon has offered 50% off the first year of Together Board, his shared pin board app – get your discount as part of my membership program.
New Member Benefit: App Discounts!
As part of my membership program, you can now get discounts on subscriptions to select partner App Store apps – sign up today.
This $0.33 NFC tag replaced my most annoying car habit »
Nate Pangaro from How-To Geek has a walk-through for how he's using NFC tags to run shortcuts just by tapping his iPhone.
Fill out my Membership App Discounts Partner Interest Form
Hello folks! I am preparing new membership benefits from partner apps services – from discounts to free passes – and looking for a set of beginning partners for the initial 3-month trial. Fill out the form below if you re interested:
This Thursday: Siri AI Automators meetup in Portland
Join me in downtown Portland this Thursday, July 23, for another Siri AI Automators meetup about Siri, App Intents, Shortcuts, and practical automation.
WVFRM’s complete conversation about App Intents and the new Siri
The complete WVFRM conversation about App Intents, third-party developer support, and what the iOS 27 beta can and cannot show us about the new Siri.
New in the Shortcuts Library: DoorDash shortcuts
Get my shortcuts for the Doordash app, modeled after their App Shortcuts. use these to find restaurants or dishes, check your past orders, order groceries, or shop retail.
New in the Shortcuts Library: Waveform podcast shortcuts
If you're a fan of the Waveform podcast from MKBHD team, check out these shortcuts for interacting with the show, the YouTube Playlist, the clips channel, and the main channel.
OpenAI introduces new GPT-Live voice models »
OpenAI has introduced a new-and-improved voice model called GPT-Live that sounds much more natural to interact with.
New in the Shortcuts Library: Notion Agents shortcuts
Get my new shortcuts for the Notion Agents app. Use these to activate Notion AI, plus start and stop meeting.
Meet the Notion Agents iOS app »
Notion has released their new Agents app which lets you chat directly with your data.
iOS 27: Open Shortcuts to Editor instead of Describe a Shortcut
New in iOS 27, there's a setting for Shortcuts to default to the Editor instead of Describe a Shortcut.
Apple Adds Restore Setting for “Shortcuts On This Device That Aren’t Currently In Your Library”
For shortcuts stuck in sync, Apple has added a new Restore button that adds your shortcuts back to your library.
Entity Enhancements: Help Siri AI Better Understand Your Apps’ Content
With Siri AI, Apple has updated App Intents to better understand data from your apps – with IntentValueRepresentation, RelevantEntities, EntityCollection, and SyncableEntity.
Siri AI Continues Across Devices, Apps Can Stay In Sync With Stable IDs
With Siri AI interacting with the same content from apps across devices, they need one stable ID to match up inside conversations.
Get Significant Siri AI Performance Improvements With Large EntityCollections
When working with large data sets, developers using App Intents should mark them as EntityCollections for performance improvements – loading only the identifiers.
How To Register Relevant Content From Your App With the System and Siri AI
Apps can ensure Siri AI knows which content is most important using RelevantEntities – beyond donations or Spotlight indexing.
Teach Siri AI to Share Structured Types Without Known Formats Across Apps with ValueRepresentation
Some apps have unique types that Siri AI can't understand by default – ValueRepresentation helps teach the system about your type.
5 WWDC features I’ll actually use more than Apple’s new Siri AI »
Graham Barlow at TechRadar talks about Describe a Shortcut and how it's coming to Shortcuts for Mac.
OpenClaw Comes to Mobile with iOS, Android Apps
OpenClaw, "the AI that actually does things," has released iOS and Android versions of the app that let you control your OpenClaw instance running on your desktop.
Josh Elman, Product Marketing for Siri and Apple Intelligence, Joins a16z
John Elman, formerly Product Marketing at Apple, has left his most recent work on Siri and Apple Intelligence to rejoin the startup investing world as a partner at a16z.
Michael Flarup Launches Cibby App For Video Game Collectors
Designer Michael Flarup has announced an interactive 3D video game collection app that puts your physical game boxes on a shelf. Sign up to be notified when Cippy launches.
App Intents are Limited to Thirty Seconds: Extend Execution as Live Activity with LongRunningIntent
Normally, App Intents have a 30-second limit to finish running – LongRunningIntent helps developers get beyond that by moving to a Live Activity. Plus, CancellableIntent makes sure it can be ended gracefully.
Build from anywhere with Cursor for iOS »
Curor has released their iOS app, bringing the agentic coding platform to iOS with remote sessions or cloud agents.
App Intents Is The Engine Behind Some of the Most Delightful Experiences On the Apple Platform
"App Intents is a framework that lets you express your app’s actions and content to other parts of the system in ways that feels natural and deeply integrated."
WWDC26 Sessions: Discover new capabilities in the App Intents framework
From Apple Developer: Level up your App Intents adoption with advanced features to make it faster, more flexible, and more relevant.
You Can Finally “Sync Immediately” With Photos in iOS 27 (But Only “For Today”)
New in iOS 27, the Photos app has a setting to sync to iCloud Immediately – for the remainder of the day. No more seeing "iCloud is paused" when you expect your photos to be synced!
MacRumors: iOS 27 Makes the Shortcuts App Much Less Intimidating »
Juli Clover of MacRumors covers all the updates out of WWDC that make Shortcuts easier to use – Describe a Shortcut, refinements, new actions, and more.
Joanna Stern: It’s Weird To Sit With the Silence of Siri
During The Talk Show Live at WWDC26, Joanna Stern referenced "the silence of Siri" – I wrote it down at the time so I'd remember to link it here. Poetic.
The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2026
Watch the recording of John Gruber interviewing Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel afte WWDC26 – where I was in attendance in the audience,
Read The Siri AI System Prompt For Yourself
The Siri AI system prompt has leaked online – here's the introduction. Make sure to find it and read it yourself.
WWDC26 Sessions: Watch My YouTube Playlist of App Intents & Siri AI Videos
Videos from Apple's WWDC26, including the Keynote, SOTU, Special Presentation, and sessions related to App Intents Siri AI.
iOS 27: Quickly Toggle Your Automations With New Filters in Shortcuts
New filters in Automations for Turned On and Turned Off make it easy to view your automated shortcuts and toggle them as needed.
Get the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27 Design Kits for Figma and Sketch from Apple
Apple Design has released new resources for the iOS 27 cycle, including UI Kits and App Icon Templates for Figma and Sketch.