With iOS 15.4, Apple has released a new update to its mobile operating system that includes a number of new features and improvements. One of the most notable additions is the ability to create shortcuts for commonly used tasks on your iPhone or iPad. If you’re someone who relies heavily on shortcuts to speed up your workflow, then you’ll want to make sure you take advantage of this new feature in iOS 15.4. Here are some tips on how to do just that:

  1. First, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad and scroll down until you see “General.” Under “General,” tap on “Shortcuts.”
  2. Next, tap on the “Add New Shortcut” button and enter the shortcut name that you want to use. For example, if you want to create a shortcut for sending a text message, you would enter “SMS” into the “Shortcut Name” field.
  3. Next, select the app from which you want to launch the shortcut and enter the appropriate command(s) into the “Command” field. For example, if you want to launch Safari so that you can browse the web, you would enter “Safari.”
  4. Finally, tap on “Done” and your shortcut will be created! You can now access it by tapping on the icon corresponding to the app from which it was created (for example, Safari’s icon will be located in the bottom left corner of your screen). ..

Currently, when you run a Shortcuts automation, iOS will notify you every time and confirm that you want to run it. There are creative ways to disable the notification, but it still doesn’t feel as automatic as you might like.

However, in iOS 15.4, developer Florian Bürger discovered that you could turn off the notification and confirm that you want to run a Shortcuts automation, making them automatically work. Gone is the extra step of confirming each time. So if you want your phone to do something each time it connects to a new Wi-Fi network, for example, it’ll just happen.

This means, opening Fjorden (or any other camera app) from the lock screen is now super quick and almost seamless 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Ez2JGeVo6l

— Florian Bürger (@FlorianBuerger) February 7, 2022

You’ll need to choose whether to enable this for each automation, but you’ll only need to set it up one time. Additionally, this is only for Shortcuts automation and not all shortcuts. Your shortcuts, such as sending a text or anything else that you do manually, will work as it always has.

Apple hasn’t announced the final release date for iOS 15.4, but between this change and the introduction of Universal Control, we’re plenty excited for this new version of Apple’s OS.