This is great for privately sharing shortcuts with friends or family members or keeping an offline backup of your shortcuts. You're likely to be familiar with this type of dialog for other apps using your location but what's great about the Shortcuts implementation is that it gives you a visual preview of the data you'll be sharing should you allow it.Īpple is also now allowing you to share shortcuts as files rather than only as links. From this page, you can revoke these privileges at any time.įurther, iOS 15 will now provide a detailed permission dialog when a shortcut is run for the first time that lets you decide whether to allow access once, always, or not at all. Most notably, there's a new privacy page in each shortcut's settings that displays its permissions for different types of data like apps, file access, contacts and calendars, and so on. Shortcuts in iOS 15 screenshots showing new privacy pages in shortcut settings (Image credit: iMore)Īnother critical update to Shortcuts in iOS 15 revolves around privacy. The neat Split Screen Apps action allows you to launch two side-by-side windows on your iPad or Mac quickly, and adding the Go to Home Screen action at the end of a shortcut makes for a much more pleasant experience. Still, there are a lot of new Files integrations due to the cross-platform nature of Shortcuts in 2021 and the move from Automator to Shortcuts on the Mac. With the new Focus modes launching in iOS 15, it's no surprise that these can now be set as part of a Shortcut. There are many new actions to choose from, so it is recommended to explore the new action library in Shortcuts, but here are some choice examples: Still, many are very useful for iOS and iPadOS users too. Some of these have been carried over from Shortcuts for Mac launching with macOS Monterey as Apple aims for feature parity.
New Shortcuts actions in iOS 15Īs well as a new way to find actions in Shortcuts, iOS 15 also brought with it a bunch of brand new actions.
In addition, some smart suggestions may more quickly surface what you're after, or you can scroll through all of the available actions.
There are now two sections here, Categories and Apps, so you can more easily find the action you need based on the function you need it to perform or the app it belongs to. There's a new way to browse actions, too, with the action library having received an overhaul. If you have nested actions, you can effectively remove these from view, which is extremely helpful in a Shortcut that contains hundreds of actions. Shortcuts in iOS 15 screenshots showing redesigned action library and collapsed action view in shortcut editor (Image credit: iMore)įurther saving space and time spent scrolling, iOS 15's Shortcuts app allows for collapsible lists of actions.
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