Ex-Apple engineer: 90% of Mac users never open the Shortcuts app
Aiden_Tech_Ai · x · 2026-11-04
A widely shared post: someone bought a $2,499 MacBook Pro two years ago and uses it only for Chrome, Spotify and Zoom. A former Apple engineer who spent 6 years on the macOS team pointed out what the machine can actually do:
- Automate boring daily tasks, even while you sleep
- Turn an iPad into a seamless wireless second display
- Built-in clinical-grade focus audio
- Sign PDFs instantly with the trackpad; remove call background noise with AI
His estimate: 90% of the tens of millions of Mac owners have never opened the Shortcuts app or explored System Settings. He set up 10 features in 12 minutes, and the next morning the Mac was already organizing things automatically.
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