MacPower users episode 136, iOS Automation. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks. Hey David.

Hey, David. Hey Katie. So I think we're going to get geeky again tonight, which is good. It's something I've been looking forward to this all day I must say.

Good, me too, always.

Yeah, and you know this is a show that we've gotten so many requests for. We did the

Alfred show a while back and we're talking about how you could use Alfred to

kind of automate some tasks on your Mac and quick access to things and shortcuts

and make the process of using your Mac easier and we got a lot of people

talking to us and saying, well, hey, what about iOS?

And you know, it wasn't all that long ago that I never would have considered doing a show about

iOS automation because of this, you know, you think of iOS being as such

this restricted platform that you can't do anything. With sandboxing, you know, you can't have a tool like

Alfred or you can't do Apple Script or you can't have a tool like Alfred or or you can't do Apple

script or you can't do automator you can't do anything like that and all the

automation tools that we have on the Mac but when you think about it and

we've gotten some emails from listeners about it.

We've got more tools now and our Mac developers are really, really smart in figuring out ways

that they can do things within iOS and whether those are crumbs that Apple has intentionally

left for them or whether the developers have just kind of figured out their own path.

I'm not quite sure, but I like it.

I'm pretty sure it's the former.

I don't think Apple's leaving a whole lot of crumbs for automation on iOS.

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