Apple Releases Updated Version of Shortcuts With New Notes-Related Actions

Have never used the shortcuts app and never will.Have never used Siri either in the 8 years it’s been around.

Good for you! Keep it up!

I gave up on shortcuts the app is confusing and it’s complicated

Very complicated to use and most people I work with and associate with do not use it

What was Apple thinking when they developed this. The public are not programmers

It isn't as if iOS boots up into Shortcuts and you have to use it.

I welcome more powerful tools like this in iOS. Just don't download it if it's not for your use case.

Very complicated to use and most people I work with and associate with do not use it

What was Apple thinking when they developed this. The public are not programmers

Have never used the shortcuts app and never will.Have never used Siri either in the 8 years it’s been around.

Congratulations cookie time ;)

"Hey Siri, cancel my subscriptions"

I gave up on shortcuts the app is confusing and it’s complicated

It’s an advanced user feature. It’s not for you. Luckily however, you can still benefit from Shortcuts from within apps where developers did the work for you and created their own Shortcuts. All you have to do is tap “Add Shortcut”.

Tons of Mac users never used AppleScript or Automator but a good number of those still got to benefit from pre-made scripts and automations. Shortcuts is just the iOS version of that dynamic.

Desperately needs:

Time triggers - shortcuts run on schedule

Shortcut App Store

Still no folders. Facepalm. If they continue at this pace.....
Also needs an Apple Watch app that allows to run a shortcut by tapping a complication.

Very complicated to use and most people I work with and associate with do not use it

What was Apple thinking when they developed this. The public are not programmers

Once again Apple releases something potentially amazing and doesn't support it properly. It sounds like you would consider utilising shortcuts if they were beneficial to you, easy to find and easy to implement. I don't think Apple has done a very good job at all at making these easier for 'consumers' of shortcuts. Hence my earlier comment of an App Store showcase. The current library is a mess and full of shortcuts you can achieve manually with an extra tap.

Equally for developers, I'd like to see Shortcuts integrated into Xcode or a standalone IDE so we can create them on the Mac. It's PAINFUL dragging and dropping elements when you have built up nested statements and dozens and dozens of actions.

Back to end users/consumers, kiosk mode would be awesome. Sure you need the Shortcuts app to gain the utility, but you don't need to see the app running when running your shortcut. A nice kiosk mode for consumers would be great and/or the ability to run shortcuts and use present actions when needed; it's very easy for someone not accustomed to building shortcuts to tap into the shortcut when it is running and break it at the moment.

Back to developers: an easy way to upgrade shortcuts and for users to be able to update them.

You can do such awesome stuff with these. Here's an example of some I have up and running: shortcut that you can add ALL of your email addresses to and have them checked automagically by Have I Been Pwned (HBIP); shortcut that you can use direct from 1Password to check if that password is in the HBIP Pwned Passwords database (all encrypted and calculated on device) and perhaps the most fun, create and generate a random sweepstake (office pool to the Americans): it's the Women's World Cup this year, enter 24 names into the shortcut and it will randomly generate the sweepstake/office pool for you.

This is the level of power shortcuts gave give you, and I don't need to learn Objective C and Swift in order to make great applets.