7 Basic iPhone Tricks I Built With iOS 27’s Revamped Shortcuts App

我利用 iOS 27 全新“快捷指令”应用打造的 7 个基础 iPhone 技巧

I’ve never used Apple’s built-in Shortcuts app before, despite owning an iPhone for years. While automating tedious tasks sounded nice, the necessary scripting to trigger actions and thread them together felt overwhelming when I first opened the app. But my experience with the iOS 27 beta has completely changed my perspective on Shortcuts. What was previously clunky and forgotten now feels streamlined and essential.

尽管我使用 iPhone 已多年，却从未用过苹果内置的“快捷指令”（Shortcuts）应用。虽然自动化处理繁琐任务听起来很不错，但当我第一次打开该应用时，那些触发动作并将其串联起来所需的脚本编写工作让我感到不知所措。然而，iOS 27 测试版的体验彻底改变了我对“快捷指令”的看法。曾经那些笨拙且被遗忘的功能，现在变得精简且不可或缺。

When iOS 27 lands this fall, Siri AI might be the most tangible change for many users, with its improved capabilities and stand-alone app. Even so, Apple Intelligence integration into the Shortcuts app has me humming “Zero to Hero” from Disney’s Hercules.

今年秋季 iOS 27 正式发布时，Siri AI 凭借其增强的功能和独立应用，或许会成为许多用户最直观的改变。即便如此，Apple Intelligence 与“快捷指令”应用的深度集成，还是让我忍不住哼起了迪士尼电影《大力士》中的那首《Zero to Hero》。

Called “Describe a Short,” it lets you say what you want it to do conversationally, then the app generates an automation flow. You can also tweak it by sending a follow-up prompt in the app; the manual scripting option remains available for power users. Since I was testing this app through the iOS 27 beta, I experienced a couple of glitches where the automations didn’t generate perfectly. Even so, this new Shortcuts feature was incredibly fun to tinker with. After a few tries, I generated automations that actually feel useful as part of my daily smartphone habits.

该功能被称为“描述快捷指令”（Describe a Short），它允许你通过对话方式说出你的需求，随后应用便会自动生成自动化流程。你还可以通过发送后续提示词在应用内进行微调；当然，手动编写脚本的选项依然为高级用户保留。由于我是在 iOS 27 测试版中进行测试，偶尔会遇到自动化流程生成不够完美的小故障。即便如此，这个全新的快捷指令功能依然非常有趣。经过几次尝试，我成功创建了一些真正能融入我日常手机使用习惯的自动化功能。

Here are a few basic shortcut ideas worth trying once you download and install iOS 27. My examples only scratch the surface of what you can automate with the app, but hopefully it will spark ideas for your needs.

以下是一些在你下载并安装 iOS 27 后值得尝试的基础快捷指令创意。我的这些示例仅仅触及了该应用自动化功能的冰山一角，但希望能为你提供一些灵感。

Habit Breaking / 戒掉坏习惯

This might be the most basic automation I’ve set up, but it’s already my favorite. I spend so much time mindlessly scrolling on my phone that when I close social media apps, like Instagram, to focus on something else, I sometimes reopen them almost immediately out of habit.

这可能是我设置的最基础的自动化功能，但它已经成了我的最爱。我花在手机上无意识刷屏的时间太多了，以至于当我关闭 Instagram 等社交媒体应用想要专注于其他事情时，有时会出于习惯几乎立刻又重新打开它们。

I asked the app to generate a shortcut that triggers whenever I open Instagram. Now I get a notification asking: “Do you really want to use this app?” If I choose yes, then the pop-up goes away. But if I pick no, the phone automatically closes out of Instagram and locks the screen. It’s not exactly transformational, and there are other options for reducing screen time, but this little nudge feels helpful for breaking my repetitive habits.

我让应用生成了一个快捷指令，每当我打开 Instagram 时就会触发。现在，我会收到一条通知询问：“你真的要使用这个应用吗？”如果我选择“是”，弹窗就会消失；但如果我选择“否”，手机会自动关闭 Instagram 并锁定屏幕。这虽然算不上什么彻底的改变，也有其他减少屏幕使用时间的方法，但这种小小的提醒对于打破我的重复性习惯确实很有帮助。

Quality Checking / 空气质量监测

Since I live in California, I often check the air quality in my neighborhood on my way out of the apartment to gauge whether I should pack a mask. Rather than manually checking the air quality index each day, I wanted to automate the process. So, I set up a shortcut that runs every morning at 6:40 am. It checks the current weather, looks at the air quality index, and then sends me a notification. If the air quality index is above a certain threshold, I get an alert; if it’s below, it sends me the all-clear.

由于我住在加州，出门时经常会查看附近的空气质量，以判断是否需要带口罩。与其每天手动查询空气质量指数，我更想让这个过程自动化。因此，我设置了一个每天早上 6:40 运行的快捷指令。它会检查当前天气，查看空气质量指数，然后给我发送通知。如果空气质量指数超过了某个阈值，我会收到警报；如果低于该值，它会通知我一切正常。

Battery Saving / 省电提醒

Shortcuts can also be triggered based on your location. Whenever I leave my apartment, no matter the time of day, I want my phone to be charged, or I have to grab a battery pack just to be safe. To help with this, I generated a shortcut that triggers when I leave home and checks my device’s current battery level. If it’s below 50 percent when it runs, I get a friendly notification that reminds me to bring that power bank. (A quick trip back inside to grab it is better than being miles from home with no way to communicate.)

快捷指令还可以根据你的位置触发。无论什么时间，只要我离开公寓，我都希望手机电量充足，否则为了保险起见，我必须带上充电宝。为了解决这个问题，我生成了一个快捷指令，在我离开家时触发并检查设备的当前电量。如果运行时电量低于 50%，我会收到一条友好的通知，提醒我带上充电宝。（跑回屋里拿一下总比离家几英里却无法联系外界要好。）

Plant Watering / 给植物浇水

These next two automations are a good example of how you can build shortcuts on your home screen and tie shortcuts together. While plenty of apps log plant watering, I wanted to see if Shortcuts could do it for me. First, I created a shortcut that, whenever I run it, grabs the current date and time and adds that to a dedicated plant watering note to keep a consistent log. I then tapped on the drop-down menu at the top of the app and clicked Add to Home Screen. Now, each time I do the chore, I can tap that app icon to log it.

接下来的这两个自动化示例很好地展示了如何将快捷指令添加到主屏幕并将其串联起来。虽然有很多应用可以记录浇水情况，但我还是想看看“快捷指令”能否代劳。首先，我创建了一个快捷指令，每当我运行它时，它就会获取当前的日期和时间，并将其添加到专门的浇水笔记中，以保持记录的一致性。然后，我点击应用顶部的下拉菜单，选择“添加到主屏幕”。现在，每次我完成这项家务时，只需点击那个图标即可完成记录。

That alone could have been helpful, but I wanted to push the automation a little further. I created another shortcut that, every morning at 9:00 am, finds the plant watering log and sees if it was modified within the last week. If no changes have been added within the last week, it sends me a notification reminder to check on the plants.

仅此一点就已经很有用了，但我还想进一步提升自动化程度。我创建了另一个快捷指令，每天早上 9:00 自动查找浇水记录，查看过去一周内是否有更新。如果过去一周没有添加任何记录，它会给我发送通知，提醒我查看植物。

Screenshot Extracting / 截图文字提取

Although this automation is a little more niche, I use it fairly often as someone who’s chronically online and often taking screenshots. Now, whenever I take a screenshot, my phone automatically extracts any text in the images and copies it to my clipboard. This simplifies my previous process of saving screenshots, manually opening the Photos app, then copying the text from the images.

虽然这个自动化功能比较小众，但作为一个长期在线且经常截图的人，我用得非常频繁。现在，每当我截屏时，手机都会自动提取图片中的文字并复制到剪贴板。这简化了我之前保存截图、手动打开“照片”应用、再从图片中复制文字的繁琐过程。

Plane Landing / 飞机降落通知

This one isn’t very complicated, but it makes my life just a little bit easier. I often travel without my partner and can be negligent in sending updates. So I asked the Shortcuts app to generate an automation that sends a “just landed” text to my partner every time I turn off airplane mode. Simple. During setup, the app asked me to select which iPhone contact was my partner. It’s an easy automation that solves the issue of me being incredibly distracted when deplaning.

这个功能并不复杂，但确实让我的生活轻松了一些。我经常独自旅行，有时会忘记给伴侣发消息报平安。所以我让“快捷指令”应用生成了一个自动化功能：每当我关闭飞行模式时，自动给我的伴侣发送一条“刚落地”的短信。很简单。在设置过程中，应用会让我选择哪位联系人是我的伴侣。这是一个简单的自动化功能，解决了我在下飞机时因分心而忘记联系对方的问题。

Sound Recognizing / 声音识别

While this shortcut requires you to adjust your accessibility settings, the extra hassle seems worth it for the payoff. I’m almost always wearing headphones when working from home, with the music turned up quite loud. I’m also anxious about not hearing someone knocking on my door or ringing the bell. There’s a fix! Start by going into your Accessibility settings, then find Sound & Name Recognition. Here you can enable sound recognition for everything from glass breaking to babies crying; I picked Door Bell and Door Knock.

虽然这个快捷指令需要你调整辅助功能设置，但为了最终的效果，这点麻烦是值得的。我在家工作时几乎总是戴着耳机，而且音乐开得很大声。我也很担心听不到敲门声或门铃声。现在有解决办法了！首先进入“辅助功能”设置，找到“声音识别”。在这里，你可以开启从玻璃破碎声到婴儿啼哭声等各种声音的识别功能；我选择了“门铃”和“敲门声”。

Since I don’t always have my phone on me while wearing headphones, the basic notification wouldn’t be that helpful. So I beefed it up by building a shortcut so that when my iPhone recognizes either sound, it pauses whatever is playing. Now I can blast my podcasts without worrying about missing a package delivery.

由于我戴着耳机时并不总是随身带着手机，基础的通知功能作用有限。所以我通过创建一个快捷指令对其进行了增强：当 iPhone 识别到这两种声音中的任何一种时，它会自动暂停当前播放的内容。现在，我可以尽情收听播客，而不必担心错过快递送达了。