by Dan Moren

Shortcuts updates in this year’s OSes

Apple has a page documenting all the updates to Shortcuts in iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26, including new and updated actions:

For those building custom shortcuts, some actions have been updated:

• “Calculate Expression” can now evaluate expressions that include units, including real time currency conversion rates, temperature, distance, and more
• “Create QR Code” can now specify colors and styling
• “Date” can now specify a holiday
• “Find Contacts” can now filter by relationship
• “Transcribe Audio” performance has been improved
• “Show Content” can now display scrollable lists of items, like calendar events, reminders, and more

Nice to see improvements and even nicer to see them written down like this. I’d like to see even more Shortcuts documentation like this, because sometimes you don’t even know what you don’t know.

[via Matthew Cassinelli]