iOS 27.2 Brings These New Features and Improvements to the Shortcuts App
iOS 27.2 adds a new "When My iPhone Opens or Closes" automation to Shortcuts, which can trigger actions based on the open/closed state of iPhone Duo. Workout automations now support the Fitness app, and the "Use Model" action now supports fetching the latest information online in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. On iOS and iPadOS, you can now also edit the name and icon of a shortcut directly from the shortcut library.
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iOS 27.2 launched this week with a variety of new features for Siri AI, FaceTime, Messages, and more, plus a handful of improvements for the Shortcuts app. Here’s everything new in Shortcuts.
iOS 27.2’s Shortcuts app adds key iPhone Duo automation, plus improvements to several other features
iPhone Duo launched with iOS 27.1 last week, but just days later iOS 27.2 arrived with a pair of compelling new Duo features.
But it turns out that iOS 27.2 also introduced a key iPhone Duo automation in Shortcuts that’s proven popular.
The ability to automate actions based on whether your iPhone is opened or closed arrived in iOS 27.2, per Apple’s release notes for the Shortcuts app. And that’s not the only change.
Here are the full release notes detailing every Shortcuts improvement in iOS 27.2:
New Automations
“When my iPhone is opened or closed” (iPhone Duo)
Updated Automations
Workout (“When I start a workout”) adds support for the Fitness app (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS)
App (“When Weather is opened or closed”) can now provide the name of the app that was closed (iOS, iPadOS, macOS)
Updated Actions
“Use Model” can now get up-to-date information using the web in additional languages
Shortcut Editor
Window layout can now be configured using the “Show Actions” and “Show Describe a Shortcut” menu items (macOS)
Shortcut names and icons can now be edited directly from the library (iOS and iPadOS)
The additional languages supported by “Use Model” include French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Previously the feature was limited to English.
What’s your take on iOS 27.2’s new and improved Shortcuts features? Let us know in the comments.
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