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iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16: Assign Two Functions to the Action Button

Tuesday October 3, 2023 11:30 am PDT by Tim Hardwick

Apple's iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 models feature an Action button to which you can assign a custom function. Officially, the Action button only supports one function, but there is a way to switch between two actions using a special Shortcut. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. On iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 devices, the iOS...

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Don't Want to Wait for iOS 27? Shortcuts Playground From MacStories Generates Shortcuts Using AI

Thursday May 21, 2026 4:38 pm PDT by Juli Clover

Apple is rumored to be adding an AI feature for creating shortcuts with natural language to the Shortcuts app in iOS 27, but MacStories' Federico Viticci has a clever AI tool for making shortcuts that you can use today. Shortcuts Playground is a plugin for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex that can create shortcuts for the Apple Shortcuts app using natural language input. It's set up to let users ...

Craig Federighi Explains Why Apple Won't Merge iPad and Mac: 'We Don't Want to Build Sporks'

Wednesday June 18, 2025 11:43 am PDT by Juli Clover

MacStories' Federico Vittici, who is known for his focus on the iPad as a main computing device, recently did an interview with Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi. Federighi and Vittici did a deep dive into the ‌iPad‌ and the changes that are coming to iPadOS this fall. Federighi said that figuring out multitasking on the ‌iPad‌ has been a multi-year task that's required...

MacStories Shares Useful Collection of 150 Custom iOS Shortcuts

Wednesday March 6, 2019 12:28 pm PST by Juli Clover

Apple in iOS 12 introduced a new Shortcuts app, built on the Workflow app that it acquired in 2017. Shortcuts lets you automate tasks, simplifying everything from calculating a tip to sharing an Apple Music song. Shortcuts can do an endless number of things, but it can be tough to find useful new Shortcuts if you're not well versed in building them yourself. MacStories' Federico Viticci, known ...

iOS 11 Concept Imagines Overhauled iPad Interface With Drag-and-Drop Functionality

Friday May 19, 2017 12:59 pm PDT by Juli Clover

Apple is planning to unveil its next-generation operating system for iOS devices, iOS 11, in less than a month. Despite the imminent debut date of the new OS, we've heard very little about what we should expect to see in the update. Based on the fact that iOS 10 offered very few features for the iPad, Federico Vittici of MacStories, who uses an iPad for much of his daily work, has imagined an...

Apple Begins Testing Related Search Suggestions Feature on App Store

Monday March 24, 2014 11:14 pm PDT by Richard Padilla

As first spotted by TIME Planner developer Olga Osadcha on Twitter (via MacStories), Apple has begun testing a related search suggestions feature for some users in the App Store. The new menu appears to overlay itself on top of an existing search query, giving users search suggestions in similar categories - for instance, searching for "calendar" gives related suggestions for "calendar...

Apple Schedules Extended Retail Meetings May 22nd Sparking Speculation About Event

Monday May 16, 2011 11:49 am PDT by Arnold Kim

MacStories reports that Apple retail stores are holding all-hands employee meetings on Sunday, May 22nd. While it's not unusual for Apple to hold such meetings, the early timing of the meeting seems strange.Store meetings at 7AM Sunday across United States. Unusual time. Expecting some announcement. All stores, brand-wide US. Don't know about other countries.While there had previously been...

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