Apple’s short command app should understand natural language in the future

Mac-Power users often use AppleScript to facilitate everyday digital life. Those who are not quite so far have been able to automate and shorten many recurring routines on Apple devices in a simpler way since 2018 with the short command app. In a next big step, Apple allegedly wants to provide the short command app with the possibility of creating shortcuts by natural language and AI help, Now reports Bloomberg.

The processing of natural language could make short commands interesting for new target groups. Because although in today’s app by selection lists and the graphically light control is attempted to simplify the operation, it still requires its users to think a bit far into the technical processes.

Probably not an issue for this WWDC

On the other hand, if you could simply tell the app what you want, for example that an app should be opened when you reach a certain location, you may be more useful. An example of this is the Microsoft Copilot, which enables such control in Windows. But app developers also have corresponding solutions for the MAC. Apple would have the great advantage that it already has a number of integrations for the short command app and could make interfaces to the operating system more extensively than any other.

In view of the shift in improved Siri language assistance, which in future should also understand natural language thanks to Large Language Model, the project still sounds like an ambitious goal for Apple. And that should still be the case at the moment, reports Mark Gurman from the US financial news agency Bloomberg, who has made the plans for the AI ​​expansion of the short command app. He does not expect that the performance will take place this year. The AI ​​short commands are more of a topic for 2026.

Focus on other topics

At this year’s WWDC developer conference, which begins on Whit Monday with a keynote, Apple wants to focus on other topics than AI, says Gurman. Among other things, there is a redesign and the harmonization of the design of the various operating systems. In the area of ​​AI, there is still positive signs that Apple could also open its models for app developers.