I am trying to make a concise description of the capabilities of the models you can use with Shortcuts on OS 27. What do I include?
Asked on 2026-08-18
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For a concise description, include that the models available in Shortcuts on OS 27 can:
- Work with content from your apps
- Reason over that content to make selections or decisions
- Use up-to-date information from the web when available
- Handle both simple and complex requests
- Run on-device for private, offline-capable tasks
- Use larger server-based models for more complex workflows
- Optionally use ChatGPT for broader world knowledge and expertise
If you want an even shorter version, you could say:
Shortcuts supports on-device and server-based intelligence models that can reason over app content, use web data when available, and handle both simple and complex tasks; ChatGPT is also available for broader knowledge.
If you'd like, I can also turn that into:
- a marketing-style sentence
- a developer-facing description
- or a one-line App Store-style summary
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