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Re:iOS 12, reviewed by chillacy on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:46PM (#18020378)
Shortcuts blew me away when I saw what you could do. I assumed based on the demo that it was pretty limited, but you can set variables, loop, execute remote SSH commands, call into APIs, execute Python, etc. And it comes with API access to send iMessages/read contacts/etc. The fact that it's so much easier to write an automation "script" or shortcut than swift code is huge!
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Re:iOS 12, reviewed by frutiger on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:57PM (#18020781)
The System 7 OS on Macs introduced AppleScript[1] which offered a similar set of features (but designed for the 90s).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript

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Re:iOS 12, reviewed by saagarjha on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:20PM (#18021429)
AppleScript is still around, as part of OSA, which now includes JavaScript support.
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Re:iOS 12, reviewed by dingdongding on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:31PM (#18021201)
This had been possible with iOS before. It was this workflow app (https://workflow.is/) which app bought to integrate more natively in iOS
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Re:iOS 12, reviewed by zimpenfish on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:30AM (#18024014)
Sadly with some crazy UX changes - tapping on an action used to open it but now it runs it (which has caused me a few misfires already!) Plus the "pick an action from the list" is now a scroll-up pane rather than a scroll-sideways pane making it horribly more clunky to find what you're after.
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