BAD SOFTWARE
Even ChatGPT Can’t Make Apple Shortcuts Work
Apple, this is awful stuff
I have managed to use Shortcuts to do simple but useful things. For example, I have one that shows us upcoming Calendar entries. This is handy when trying to schedule some new appointment or event.
I like to have a printout that we can just glance at without opening Calendar or that Shortcut. The way I have been doing that is to take a screenshot of the events the Shortcut finds and printing that.
I’d like to print that list out directly but have never been able to make it work. I expressed my frustration to ChatGPT, showed it a screenshot of my existing Shortcut, and it offered this:
To create a shortcut that prints your calendar events to a printer, you can follow these steps using the Shortcuts app on your iPad:
1. Open the Shortcuts App: Launch the Shortcuts app on your iPad.
2. Create a New Shortcut: Tap the “+” icon to create a new shortcut.
3. Add Find Calendar Events Action:
• Add the “Find Calendar…
