How good is iOS 27 AI shortcut generation?
The new iOS 27 ‘AI shortcut‘ feature may come off as very useful to help transition the Shortcuts app into less of a power user feature. The ability to describe a task with natural language might make Shortcuts more user friendly overall But how good is it at complex shortcuts?
For everyone on the iOS 27 beta, what happens if you give the feature a nonsensical or long prompt, such as:
>Turn on the flashlight at 50% brightness, then take a selfie immediately save it to photos. After that, if the weather outside at my home address is 10°C or above, speak the first and last name of a random contact in my address book twice using text to speech. Otherwise, prompt me to enter a fruit and then search it on google using the Chrome browser.
Or something more complex like:
>Turn on the flashlight at 50%, take a selfie, save it, get tomorrow's high temperature at my home address, and if it's warmer than today, text the second-most-recent person I messaged the name of a random contact whose birthday is next month; otherwise ask me for a fruit, search it in Chrome, and save the first search result's title to Notes.
Obviously, my prompts used as examples are completely nonsensical as nobody would likely ever need a shortcut to do such specific thing like that. But since I don’t have a iPhone with Apple Intelligence, I am curious to see how smart the model is, or if it’s optimized for smaller and shorter tasks. For anyone who tries this, let me know if it outputs a working shortcut that does exactly that. Of course, as of now iOS 27 is a beta so maybe things will get better in the future.