Since Apple is introducing Shortcuts to macOS Monterey in the fall, it may be worth backing up all of your Automator workflows before it lands. Here's how to make a copy of your automations. Shortcuts ...

If you've been manually performing a task on your Mac over and over, you can automate it with Automator and use iCal to schedule when you want the task to run. Apple includes a free copy of Automator ...

We spend so much of our workdays doing rather arduous and tedious tasks, especially if you're working on a computer of any kind. Renaming files, converting PDFs; these are the things that can take way ...

Take a look at any of Apple’s promotional material for Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) and you’ll find that a feature that consistently gets a top-billing is Automator. However, I suspect that, if you could ...

Fans of macOS automation features like Automator and AppleScript feared the worst this week as it transpired that head of the automation technologies division, Sal Soghoian, had left the company and ...

Veteran Mac users across the developer and pro communities are reeling at the news that Sal Soghoian’s position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple has been terminated, after nearly ...

Do you spend time resizing images for reports, documents or the web? Here’s an easy Automator application you can make in a few minutes to make this process simpler. Automator is a fantastic free ...

Using Automator, it’s possible to archive iMessages on your Mac. Apple is bringing iCloud backup to iMessages with iOS 11 and macOS Sierra. Not everyone is comfortable backing up to iCloud though, so ...