Shortcuts for iPhone

Fewer gestures. More day.

Five shortcuts and two recipes that take repeated gestures off your day. Each one measured in minutes, explained step by step, and drawn exactly as it is built, so you see what you install before you install it.

See the shortcuts How to read a constellation
≈4h

a week back, if you use all five (estimate)

The legend

Every shortcut is a constellation.

The drawing is generated from the shortcut file itself: one star for each step that does something for you, in the order it happens. If the file changes, the drawing changes.

What sets it off

The only gold on this page. A time, a button, an alarm.

One step

An action the shortcut does for you. Count the stars and you know how many.

Repeats

The ring means the step runs once per item: per topic, per headline, per task.

Chooses a path

Stars stacked in one column: only one of them happens.

The shortcuts

Install, set it off, forget about it.

Each file is signed. When you open it, Shortcuts shows you every action before adding it; nothing runs until you say so.

01

News Radar

The news on your topics, filtered by Apple Intelligence, three times a day. No searching, no repeats.

≈105 min / week

Estimate: 15 minutes a day looking for news on your topics across several sites.

Gestures it removes
  • Search
  • Select
  • Inspect
Sets it off
8:00 · 13:00 · 18:00
News Radar: 8 steps12345678 The steps
  1. Your topics
  2. Builds one search per topic
  3. Remembers what you saw
  4. Reads the headlines
  5. Drops repeats
  6. Apple Intelligence picks
  7. Saves to your Reading List
  8. Tells you
Install on iPhone
Make it run by itself

Shortcuts → Automation → + → Time of Day → 8:00 → Run Immediately → News Radar. Repeat for 13:00 and 18:00.

What it needs

iPhone with Apple Intelligence (15 Pro or later). When you install it, it asks for your topics.

What leaves your phone

Your topics go to Google News as a search. The headlines go to Apple Intelligence (Private Cloud Compute) to be filtered. Nothing reaches Estándar RM.

02

Quick Capture

Say it once and it lands where it belongs: an appointment in Calendar, a task in Reminders, an idea in Notes.

≈20 min / week

Estimate: 20 captures a week, one minute saved on each (finding the right app, typing, setting the date).

Gestures it removes
  • Search
  • Transport
  • Position
Sets it off
Action button
Quick Capture: 6 steps123456 The steps
  1. You dictate (or share text)
  2. Apple Intelligence classifies
  3. Calendar
  4. Reminders
  5. Notes
  6. Confirms
Install on iPhone
Make it run by itself

Settings → Action Button → Shortcut → Quick Capture.

What it needs

iPhone with Apple Intelligence. For the Action button, iPhone 15 Pro or later. It also appears in Share.

What leaves your phone

What you dictate goes to Apple Intelligence (Private Cloud Compute) to be classified. It is saved in your Calendar, Reminders or Notes. Nothing reaches Estándar RM.

03

Morning Briefing

Weather, today's agenda and your to-dos in one short notification, the moment you turn off the alarm.

≈35 min / week

Estimate: 5 minutes a day opening Weather, Calendar and Reminders one by one.

Gestures it removes
  • Search
  • Select
  • Inspect
Sets it off
When the alarm stops
Morning Briefing: 5 steps12345 The steps
  1. Weather
  2. Today's agenda
  3. Your to-dos
  4. Apple Intelligence summarizes
  5. Tells you
Install on iPhone
Make it run by itself

Shortcuts → Automation → + → Alarm → Is Stopped → Run Immediately → Morning Briefing.

What it needs

iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Shortcuts needs access to your location (weather), Calendar and Reminders.

What leaves your phone

Weather, agenda and to-dos go to Apple Intelligence (Private Cloud Compute) for the summary. Nothing reaches Estándar RM.

04

Meeting to Tasks

Record the meeting and walk out with a summary in Notes and every action item already in Reminders.

≈45 min / week

Estimate: 3 meetings a week, 15 minutes each turning notes into tasks.

Gestures it removes
  • Hold
  • Transport
  • Plan
Sets it off
Share a voice memo
Meeting to Tasks: 7 steps1234567 The steps
  1. Records (or takes a voice memo)
  2. Transcribes
  3. Apple Intelligence finds action items
  4. Apple Intelligence summarizes
  5. One reminder per item
  6. A note with everything
  7. Tells you
Install on iPhone
Make it run by itself

Voice Memos → Share → Meeting to Tasks. Or run it when the meeting starts: it records until you tap Stop.

What it needs

iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Transcription needs a supported language and region (for example, Spanish from Mexico or Spain, English from the US).

What leaves your phone

The audio is transcribed on your iPhone. The transcript goes to Apple Intelligence (Private Cloud Compute) for the summary and the action items. Nothing reaches Estándar RM.

05

Day Wrap-up

What you did, what is left and tomorrow's three priorities, in a note and in Reminders. Two minutes and the day is closed.

≈50 min / week

Estimate: 10 minutes a day reviewing lists and planning the next day, five days a week.

Gestures it removes
  • Inspect
  • Plan
  • Search
Sets it off
21:00
Day Wrap-up: 7 steps1234567 The steps
  1. What you did today
  2. What is left
  3. Apple Intelligence summarizes
  4. Your 3 priorities
  5. Reminders for tomorrow
  6. A note for the day
  7. Tells you
Install on iPhone
Make it run by itself

Shortcuts → Automation → + → Time of Day → 21:00 → Run Immediately → Day Wrap-up.

What it needs

iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Shortcuts needs access to Reminders and Notes.

What leaves your phone

What you completed and what is pending go to Apple Intelligence (Private Cloud Compute) for the wrap-up. Nothing reaches Estándar RM.

Recipes

Nothing to download.

Sometimes the best automation is two things the iPhone already does, put together. Three minutes of setup.

Tell me when they get home — only if I'm not there

Find My tells you every time the person arrives; a Focus that turns on by itself at home silences it when you are already there, or arrived together.

  1. Find My → People → the person → Notifications → Add → Notify Me → Arrives → Home → Every Time.
  2. Settings → Focus → + → Custom → name it “Home”.
  3. In that Focus, Apps → Silence notifications from → add Find My. Nothing else.
  4. Add Schedule → Location → your home.

The other person must share their location with you and accept the notification.

Deep work mode

One press of the Action button silences everything except the people who matter, and a timer marks the end of the block.

  1. Settings → Focus → + → Custom → “Deep work”. Allow only your favorites and Calendar.
  2. In that Focus, Home Screen → choose a single page with only your work apps.
  3. Settings → Action Button → Focus → Deep work.
  4. When you start, press the button and say “Siri, a 50-minute timer”.

Sessions of 50 minutes with 10 of rest: rest is legitimate, and it is designed.

Trust

You see it, you decide.

Every step, visible

The constellation is the file. And Shortcuts shows you every action before it adds anything.

Nothing comes back to us

The shortcuts run on your iPhone. We only count how many times each file is downloaded, with no cookies and no personal data.

Apple Intelligence, with its rules

Where a shortcut uses a model, it uses Apple's Private Cloud Compute: your data is used for the request and is not kept.