Apple Intelligence in Short Commands: The Apple models can do that under iOS 26

The fact that Apple’s popular automation tool “short commands” would get AI skills in the future was considered to be made in advance. In the meantime there is some information on how the app mentioned in English can also interact with Apple’s in -house models. There are three gradations: Local model that the device does not leave, Cloud model, which runs on Apple’s private cloud compute servers (PCC), as well as chatt from Openaai. With the short commands, things are possible in part that the operating system itself has not approved within iOS 18.

Open questions for the model

Basically, the AI ​​commands are available in the short command app on iPhone, iPad and MacOS-all from September in the new versions 26. The prefabricated short commands include, for example, those to summarize PDFS, the creation of Haikus or ASCII type, the output of recipes when entering existing foods or the creation of “Action Item” from meeting notes.

Short commands can also compare documents with each other, explain how to use the models and create a “morning summary”, which shows the most important dates of the day in an overview. The models also allow completely own short commands that use Apple’s image generators or access visual intelligence. Data sources can also be tapped, including from calendars, memories or the weather app.

Programmed is still

Access to Apple’s known writing tools is also possible. It is interesting to see that you can also ask open questions, something that Apple is otherwise preventing from its own models. Short commands also offer a way for the first time to compare the various Apple models (i.e. On-Device versus PCC).

The creation of a short command only from one promptly does not seem to be intended at first: so you create a shortcut as usual, only use one of the AI ​​models and not “program” with it. It is interesting to examine the finished AI short commands that Apple supplied-there you can learn how to best use the technology.