Where could Shortcuts go from here?
A thorough overview of iOS 12 Shortcuts was published today by the contagiously enthusiastic Federico Viticci. Together with last week's article on iMore by Matt Cassinelli it tells you all you could ever want to know about how Siri Shortcuts will work for users, for devs, and how it compares to the pre-acquisition Workflow app. I wanted to offer 7 thoughts on where Shortcuts might go from here. First of all, macOS Shortcuts . With UIKit on Mac next year, Apple is pushing iOS developers to port their iOS apps to its power platform. It would be strange for automation, a typical power user feature, to not be transferrable from iOS to macOS. It would make sense for Apple to try to make Shorcuts macOS compatible by WWDC19, in for iOS devs porting their apps to macOS. That said, the technical challenges are also significant as the underlying technologies and interprocess communication models are quite different. One key question on macOS Shortcuts will be how they will handle ex