Google's Automations are currently very broken, but a few basic commands still work.

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Apple's new 'Describe a Shortcut' tool, announced at WWDC 2026, takes the anxiety out of building and running automations.

iOS 27's Shortcuts upgrade makes automations easy to build - and will save me so much time ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. To create automations using Apple's Shortcuts ...

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Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. is a senior reviews editor who’s been testing tech since 2007. Previously at Wirecutter and Maximum PC.

The Google Home and Nest ecosystems are excellent for building a capable, automated smart home, but automations are necessary to master them. Automations are simply preset commands that trigger ...

Google’s revamped editor for smart home automations just got a few more tools in its toolbox, including more ways to determine when routines should be triggered as well as one-time-only automations.

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Triple Whale, the AI operating system for ecommerce, today announced Moby Automations, a new suite of functionalities that automate the most time-consuming parts of media buying, helping brands ...