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723 Don't Want to Wait for iOS 27? Shortcuts Playground From MacStories Generates Shortcuts Using AI

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Juli Clover @ MacRumors · 05/21/2026 19:38 EDT

Don't Want to Wait for iOS 27? Shortcuts Playground From MacStories Generates Shortcuts Using AI

Apple is rumored to be adding an AI feature for creating shortcuts with natural language to the Shortcuts app in iOS 27, but MacStories' Federico Viticci has a clever AI tool for making shortcuts that you can use today.


Shortcuts Playground is a plugin for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex that can create shortcuts for the Apple Shortcuts app using natural language input. It's set up to let users type in a short sentence requesting a shortcut, with the final version output to Finder and ready to upload to A

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