Apple’s Shortcuts app continues to impress with a seemingly endless array of capabilities. Want to set a reminder to brush your teeth or get directions to your next event? Shortcuts, the … shortcut. One of the most popular apps, Shortcuts is a quick and easy way to fine-tune your home screen. As Apple has long been against personalized customization on your smartphone, this workaround is the answer. Related: How to Create Siri Shortcuts on Your iPhone and iPad Basically, this shortcut creates a new button for your favorite app, say Facebook, and swaps out the traditional… Read more
How to Use Siri Shortcuts to Replace iOS App Icons
Apple’s Shortcuts app continues to impress with a seemingly endless array of capabilities. Want to set a reminder to brush your teeth or get directions to your next event? Shortcuts, the … shortcut. One of the most popular apps, Shortcuts is a quick and easy way to fine-tune your home screen. As Apple has long been against personalized customization on your smartphone, this workaround is the answer. Related: How to Create Siri Shortcuts on Your iPhone and iPad Basically, this shortcut creates a new button for your favorite app, say Facebook, and swaps out the traditional… Read more
How To Combine Multiple PDF Files in iOS
The Portable Document File (PDF) format has come a long way since it was created by Adobe in the early 1990s, with it now being one of the most popular document file types. The main advantage it offers over a regular Document file (.doc) is the inability to edit any content in it. Thus, the file cannot be (easily) edited / changed by anyone else, which provides a secure medium for your data. Although there are various PDF editing tools for Windows/Mac/Linux, there’s a lack of good PDF-editing apps for iOS. This brings some difficulties for those who are fond of… Read more
9 of the Best Siri Shortcuts for iOS Power Users
It’s now possible to do more than ever on the iPhone and iPad. Some people are even eschewing laptops entirely, opting to go iPad-only for the vast majority of their work. Whether that sounds like you or not, Apple introduced a tool with iOS 12 that can make your life a lot easier. Siri Shortcuts, once known as Workflow, is almost like an iOS version of the Automator Mac app. With Shortcuts you can link together small actions to produce powerful results. Whether you already use Shortcuts or have just installed the app for the first time, here are some Shortcuts you should definitely try…. Read more
How to Create Siri Shortcuts on Your iPhone and iPad
Apple introduced a number of new features and tricks in iOS 12, including Siri Shortcuts. These are commands for regularly-performed actions that you can activate using Siri voice commands. Siri will offer suggestions for actions to perform based on your past behavior. You’ll find these appearing on your lock screen or your search screen, but it’s also possible to create your own. This tutorial will show you how. Related: 7 of the Best Siri Shortcuts for iOS Power Users Siri-Suggested Shortcuts Some of the suggestions for shortcuts that Siri comes up with may be useful for you. Rather than waiting until these show up, you… Read more