To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

You may find that when typing your business-specific terminology on your iPhone, the device may try to change them to something else, resulting in you having to go back and correct the device's ...

This Siri Shortcut will send an iMessage to a friend, spouse or other contact telling them how long it will be until you get to their location. Once set up, all you need to do is say something simple ...

Shortcuts is one of the neatest new features in iOS 12. But it’s easy to miss just how useful it is. While Shortcuts can help you get things done faster on an iPhone or iPad, simply poking around the ...

I use a script on my Mac (created and kindly made available by Lorenzo at TRMS) that inserts a timestamp and title into a text field. (The script is useful when making a Zettelkasten-style note.) Now ...

The iPhone got access to Shortcuts way back in iOS 12, giving you ways of combining different apps and tasks together to get stuff done—from calculating journey times and texting someone the details ...

Thanks to iCloud, Apple’s OS X Mavericks and iOS 7 let you use the same Shortcuts for text entry on your Mac as on your mobile device. Here’s how to enable and use the feature. You’ve been able to ...

Apple was quick to tout its AI-powered Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18 a year ago, but it's not until this year's iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26 updates that the company is putting all of that ...

While clicking and dragging is useful for selecting blocks of text, it can be cumbersome for finer selections, such as selecting individual characters or text that extends across multiple screens.