I’ve rebuilt my most popular shortcuts using the new Apple Intelligence actions in iOS 26—like parsing recipes from Reels, summarizing book pages from photos, and even testing different AI models side-by-side!
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Apple Intelligence Model Test
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f6009557ae73414886bd327f1adee17c
Circle to Search
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/40923f0017324c96960b6f31651e0df0
Reel Recipe to Note
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/bf8dc011a1ac4e20853a5265c2040f16
Reel Recipe Model Comparison
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/35bc6e206e0f48dc8e73b95103632a2d
Apple Newsroom Summary
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/11cdbf7843e84cc7acb96fdb5970377e
Brainstorm Ideas AI
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fb037771f97345e3b4614e7744a35c6f
Book Points
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3c862e0c1a594364ba5ec925ac992908
Event and Summary Email
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3cd5b33767644a65a419d4e0ab70ff55
AI PDF Summary
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4246fdd3013d4e099640861e96e851d5
Football Schedule
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5951087db7b840a485c0cfc6f8be7db4
High Temp + Hour
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/89a31aa53778480ba11fc835e02891c2
Movie Shortcuts
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c72a3c045492450faf9664f8d4ae74d6
YouTube Video Details
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/dae5c478a26546e2b04cf78ae3a589ee
PTS Daily News
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e74d3f8bc2144eff888f0a9f4299178d
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Chapters ➡
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Use Model Shortcuts Action
01:14 Model Testing Shortcut
01:39 AI Circle to Search
02:35 Reel to Recipe
04:11 Apple Newsroom Summary
05:08 Dictate Brainstorm
05:25 Book Points from Photos
06:09 Summarize Any PDF
06:50 Sportsball Schedules
07:37 High Temp Alarm at Time
08:36 Ultimate Movie Listing
09:43 YouTube Video Details
11:18 PTS Daily News
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You stay with that heat!! Impressed by these shortcuts and you have been well worth the subscribe button. Thank you!
Can you make a shortcut to make the flash to flash when I get a text message
You wouldn't happen to have a version of the 'Reel Recipe to Note' shortcut that works with TikTok do you?
Make a shortcut which will sum the total amount of data in notes app i have to save different amounts every day and i want you to see sum of total amount
In the wwdc main keynote when they were talking about adding the apple intelligence models to shortcuts, they showed off a shortcut that used it to take notes for a lecture and add it to apple notes. Can you recreate that one? That would be super helpful for me starting uni in the fall, but I can’t find it anywhere and in the keynote they didn’t show it in enough detail for me to figure out how to make it
The tell to recipe shortcut is not working, it's saying there's no actions
Need it to tell me if my Uber offer is Crap or Worth taking from the offer notification
Can you make an automation where a wake up alarm is disabled if it falls on a holiday and then turn it back on for the next day? Thanks!!
Would love to get the recipe shortcut into bear notes
Is there a shortcut for getting my iPad battery charged percentage on my iPhone
Your initial video on the new shortcut features inspired me to try it out on my iPad, and it ended up solving a problem that had been bothering me for a while.
I write a lot of my notes using my iPad, but handwriting doesn’t integrate very well when you’re trying to work with LLMs. So I built a shortcut that mainly performs OCR on my cruddy handwriting. The prompt also does a bit more, like creating/organizing the info in a new note repository, identifying & organizing action items, and I’m working on adding a step that automatically creates new reminders from said action items too.
All in all, it works flawlessly, and I’m genuinely impressed with how well Apple has addressed a gap that clearly exists, one that only recently started slowly being filled by MCP servers.
I am curious I want to download the developer beta* a little hesitate. It looks very stable on your device. Your recommendation – wait or give it a spin?
I really love all of your expertise in shortcuts. wow !
Circle to search is just Visual Intelligence
why is your formatting so much nicer? I'm just getting 1 gigantic paragraph.
Your videos are so amazing. Why wont apple hire you and add your videos as part of official iOS26 capabilities video is beyond me
Annotation to my request: when I say pull the transcript from a YouTube video, the only way I know to pull is from the web browser. It’s not available in apps and the browser when you hit the description transcriptions in there and then it puts it on the upper right-hand corner. I always have to scroll from 0.00 down to the end and then right-click it to copy or if I’m using my iPad move the Highlighting up and down until I get the copy option.
Probably too difficult because of where the transcript boxes put in the web browser. And it has to be the desktop version not the iPhone or iPad version so sometimes I have to force it to go to desktop in Safari.
Clear as mud?
I'm running MacOS 26 Beta 2 and IPados 26 betas. I really like what Apple has brought to the upgrades. Since I only have one iPhone I'm not installing the beta. I have to live vicariously thru you until the final version ships. Thanks for sharing.
Gemini live blows ChatGPT out of the water.
Gonna need to set a reminder for myself to watch this when ios26 is officially released 😂
ChatGPT also has limited data only from 2024 and early I found that out when I asked a particular question and it said this year (2024) in the answer
Image generator shortcut?
Request: could you pull the actual transcript from a posted YouTube video and summarize it in ChatGPT? I do this quite often when I don’t have time to watch 45-minute, 90-minute videos that I feel are still important to understand a good, detailed, thorough summary from.
Great video as always, learning so much!