iOS Shortcuts — Automating your Workflow

Eden Hare
7 min readDec 13, 2020

iOS 12 brought us the Shortcuts app, which was previously known as Workflow until Apple bought the application. Essentially, Shortcuts allows us to automate various aspects of our workflows or repetitive tasks. There are some limitations, which I will come back to later in this article.

The Shortcuts app is almost no-code, meaning you don’t write program code to perform the work. I say almost because you still have to design the logic flow and perform some elements of programming including variable assignments, flow control, etc. However, the drag and drop

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Eden Hare

Eden is the co-author of seven books and author of more than 100 articles and book chapters in technical, management, and information security publications.