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I’ve been working on this for 3 months, and here it is:

My iOS 12 review: macstories.net/stories/ios-12…

I poured hundreds of hours into this, especially the big Shortcuts chapter (with tons of examples and videos).

Enjoy!
Of course, there’s more to the review!

It was my pleasure to work with @imyke again to offer an AUDIOBOOK version, available here: gumroad.com/l/iOS12Review

If you’re a @ClubMacStories member, it’s 60% off. The audiobook is just over 3 hours. Works great in Overcast and Castro.
There is also an eBook version of the review.

This is *exclusive* to @ClubMacStories members, and it’s free. It looks really good in the new Apple Books for iOS 12.

Members: find your downloads here macstories.memberful.com/account/downlo…
This year’s review is roughly 25% shorter than last year.

The big focus is the Shortcuts chapter. I tried to cover all the aspects of Siri shortcuts AND the Shortcuts app, with many third-party app examples.

You can find the Shortcuts chapter here: macstories.net/stories/ios-12…
I covered all the changes in the new Shortcuts app. Then I created some advanced shortcuts for readers to download.

You can find my Shortcuts shortcuts (heh) – including videos and links – here: macstories.net/stories/ios-12…

(Check out Siri News Reader and Morning Routine!)
Finally, I just want to say thanks.

Thanks to everyone who’s going to read the review. Thanks @imyke for lending his voice again. Thanks @iryantldr for his editing help. And many more: macstories.net/stories/ios-12…

I hope you all enjoy what I prepared this year. ❤
It’s been a long road so far, but it’s always worth it in the end. ☺
Oh, and I should add:

The review is full of Easter Eggs. Including a long one spanning multiple screenshots and pages.

Have fun finding them all. 😄
So today has been incredible. Highest-ever traffic day for one of my iOS reviews. +380% Club signups 👀

Most of all, I'm glad that people can find the review useful and entertaining.

Thank you. You always make 3 months of work more than worth it. ❤

macstories.net/stories/ios-12…
Here are some stats on how the iOS 12 review is performing, 30 hours in:

- 300k page views
- 180k inline video playbacks
- 86k image gallery interactions
- External links clicked 28k times
- 6 TBs of assets transferred from our CDN
- @ClubMacStories signups +380%
By any possible metric, this is the best any of my reviews has ever performed, and we're well on track to beat our previous milestone of 1M views in the first week.

I'm lucky to be doing this, and I'm extremely grateful to anyone who's read and shared it so far.
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Reminders and HomeKit scenes different across devices. Photos and notes are fine.

After signing out and back in, iPhone told me it hadn’t backed up in 4 weeks 🤔
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Shortcuts 2.1 beta 2 is out! Some great changes in this one:

- New actions to create alarms and timers directly in the app
- New Measurement actions
- Better AirPlay integration via HomePod
- New controls to stop sharing a shortcut
With the new Clock actions, it is possible to build simple but effective Pomodoro-style timers in Shortcuts.

You can also create “goodnight” routines more easily by toggling specific alarms directly 👍
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I firmly believe Photoshop on iPad is just the first big example of a shift that will occur in the 3 years with more desktop apps coming to iPad Pro.

Subscriptions, USB-C, cloud files, and more powerful iOS multitasking are accelerating this transition.

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i.e. If your files are always in a cloud, and if an app is the same client everywhere thanks to a subscription, and if you have an iPad with a Pencil/trackpad and powerful enough to output 4K to an external display, at which point do you just have a Mac in a different shell?
In other words, this would be the ideal scenario I've been building towards since I effectively stopped using a Mac in 2014.

I want an iPad Pro that can become "a Mac" when *I need it to be* while still being a tablet for everything else. And I believe it's going to happen.
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