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THE THIRD–PARTY app Workflow, which Apple bought in 2017, has been renamed Shortcuts and gained new capabilities. Other apps expose to it actions that can be taken within them. You stitch together a sequence of actions, potentially involving multiple

MACHINE LEARNING ALREADY makes your devices proactively helpful, like how app suggestions in Spotlight save you searching. Your devices work out what to show there based on what you do and when. However, iOS 12 takes this to the next level by suggest

WHEN YOU PUT iOS 12 on your iPhone or iPad, it probably took a day or two for one of the new operating system’s most helpful and powerful features to reveal itself. By now you should have started to notice that your device is more helpful than before

ONCE YOU’VE EXPLORED the simple shortcuts that iOS suggests, it’s time to try out the Shortcuts app. You can use this to make powerful shortcuts by chaining together actions, enabling you to fulfill more complex objectives than the simple tasks your

Your Mac’s Spotlight search engine (opened by pressing Cmd+Spacebar) is a great way to find your files and launch apps. Siri, added in macOS Sierra, has a few tricks up its sleeve, too. Enter “define:” (without quotes) as your first term in Spotlight

LAST YEAR, APPLE bought Workflow, a brilliant automation app from a small team led by Ari Weinstein (twitter.com/ariX), the former iPhone jailbreaker who also co-created VotePlz, a tech platform that helped first-time voters get to the polls in the 2

You can change Control Center’s contents in Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls. To use the following shortcuts, apply a firm press if your device has 3D Touch, or hold a finger on the control for a moment. You needn’t reach for your Siri