Apple Intelligence is coming to the Shortcuts app - Engadget

The Home app also got the AI treatment at WWDC 2026. During today's keynote for WWDC 2026, Apple's leadership discussed the long-awaited new capabilities for artificial intelligence on its devices. One segment of the presentation highlighted how the Shortcuts app will start taking advantage of the new AI tools. Going forward, Apple Intelligence can create shortcuts based on natural language descriptions. The demo highlighted how AI could help a user set up a complicated shortcut, like messaging a spouse when departing the office each weekday. With a description like "when I'm leaving work, message Pedro with my ETA" the Shortcuts app can use Apple Intelligence to take actions such as: assessing the person's location at the workplace; using Maps to determine travel times; and sending a message to the correct contact with that information. There's also a new Apple Intelligence layer coming to the Home app. For starters, the app now collapses activities into a single notification that is refreshed with any changes rather than pelting your home screen with alerts if there's a lot happening. As a quality of life improvement, that should be a nice bonus (assuming it works better than App