There are major changes to Shortcuts in iOS and iPadOS 13 and coming on September 24th with iOS and iPadOS 13.1. Federico and John explore what the changes mean to third-party apps, who’s using them, and what it means to users.
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[[federico]] When Apple announced that iOS was going to be split in a second branch called iPadOS back in June, I didn’t think it would cause any major disruptions to my schedule at first. I only realized that the scope of this year’s review was going to be wildly different from previous years when I...
Federico’s iOS and iPadOS 13 review is out, so we’ve got a special episode of AppStories all about the big-picture changes to the OSes, the evolution of Shortcuts into a Siri development tool supported by third-party developers, the balancing act Apple performs when updating apps distributed to hundreds of millions of users, and lots of interesting little details about iOS and iPadOS 13.
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This week, Federico and John dive into the new and updated apps announced at Apple’s fall keynote including Compass, Camera, and the upcoming Apple Arcade game subscription service.
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[[federico]] The following section has been extracted from my iOS and iPadOS 13 review (which will be published on MacStories next week on Thursday) and is part of the (much bigger) Shortcuts chapter. Apple’s other automation initiative in iOS 13.1 is the ability to run custom shortcuts as HomeKit automations directly on HomeKit hubs that...
This week, Federico and John introduce the fourth anniversary of Club MacStories and then discuss the changes coming to iOS and iPadOS 13’s share sheet and how it has begun to change how they use it.
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[[federico]] There’s a small, yet convenient addition to the Shortcuts app in iOS 13: you can get a list of all your existing alarms from the Clock app with a new ‘Get All Alarms’ action. As I will explain in my iOS 13 review, this action is most useful when combined with ‘Choose from List’...
This week, Federico and John discuss why they’ve both returned to Apple Mail after years of looking for a better email solution.
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[[federico]] Shortcuts in iOS 13 comes with a suite of actions to control Apple TV, with another useful one launching with iOS 13.1, which came out in beta earlier this week. In iOS 13, Shortcuts comes with four Apple TV actions: Play/Pause Apple TV Show Remote Control Sleep Apple TV Wake Apple TV The names...
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