Automation that runs your life, not your work.
iPhone Shortcuts are Apple's built-in automation tool — and with AI, they become something much more powerful. These shortcuts connect to Claude to give you real intelligence, triggered by your schedule, your location, or a single tap.
Why Shortcuts + AI?
The infrastructure is already in your pocket.
Apple Shortcuts can trigger on a schedule, when you arrive somewhere, when you plug in your phone at night, or with a single tap. It's already there — it just needed something intelligent behind it.
Connect a Shortcut to Claude and you have a personal assistant that runs automatically, knows your context, and responds in your voice. No app to maintain. No subscription to manage.
Shortcut library
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Morning Brief
Runs each morning at a time you set. Reads your calendar events for the day, pulls the weather, and sends a clean 3-sentence brief to your notifications. No app to open.
- 1Checks your calendar
- 2Pulls weather for your location
- 3Sends a notification brief via Claude
Pre-Trip Prep
Tap once before any trip. Enter your destination and dates and it builds a packing list, a neighborhood guide, and a restaurant shortlist — all tailored to how you travel.
- 1Asks for destination + dates
- 2Calls Claude with your travel profile
- 3Returns packing list + local guide
Monthly Money Check
Runs on the first of the month. Give it your recent bank export (a screenshot or CSV) and it gives you a plain-English summary of where your money went and one thing to adjust.
- 1Runs on schedule (1st of month)
- 2You paste or share recent transactions
- 3Claude gives you a plain summary + one action
Idea Capture
The fastest way to get a thought out of your head. One tap → dictate anything → Claude cleans it up, categorizes it, and appends it to your notes. No friction, no context switching.
- 1One tap from home screen
- 2Dictate your thought
- 3Claude refines + routes to the right note
Conversation Brief
Before a hard meeting, a first date, or a difficult call — tap this. Enter the person's name and context, and Claude gives you a clear brief: what to remember, what to ask, what to watch for.
- 1Enter name + context
- 2Claude recalls what it knows
- 3Returns a brief to read before the conversation
Weekly Review
Every Sunday evening. Prompts you through a fast review — what happened, what's coming, what's sitting unfinished. Claude turns your answers into a clean weekly summary you can use or share.
- 1Runs Sunday evening
- 2Prompts you through 5 questions
- 3Claude synthesizes your week + surfaces patterns
Build your own
The best shortcut is the one that knows how you work.
Every shortcut here is a starting point. Once you understand the pattern — trigger, context, Claude prompt, output — you can build anything. It takes less time than you think.
Download the starter
Every shortcut on this page has a downloadable starter file. It's a working shortcut — not a demo. Open it on your iPhone and it runs immediately.
Swap in your details
Most customization is just text: your name, your preferences, your tone. The Shortcut editor on iOS is visual — no code, no terminal.
Make it yours
Add it to your home screen, set it to run on a schedule, or chain it with other shortcuts. Once it's built, it's yours forever.
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