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Oh, and for the sake of your sanity, itвЂ™s best to start piecing together Shortcuts on as big a screen as possible. Granted, there are a handful of third-party apps, like Toolbox Pro, Data Jar and Jellењњuts, that dramatically expand on the Shortcut tools that ship in iOS, but the thing to remember is that there are some tasks you canвЂ™t pull off with Shortcuts yet. As youвЂ™ll see later, Apple also has a fairly limited set of tools for interacting with files stored directly on your iOS device. Similarly, there doesnвЂ™t appear to be a way - for now, at least - to figure out the last time you used certain apps, so thereвЂ™s no way to build a Shortcut that highlights apps you could delete without missing them. I would love to create a Shortcut that would automatically dismiss notifications generated more than a day or two ago, but Apple doesnвЂ™t make information about a notificationвЂ™s age available to Shortcuts. LetвЂ™s say youвЂ™re like me, and youвЂ™re just awful at remembering to clear out your notifications regularly. There are, of course, limits to what Apple will let you do. You know the result youвЂ™re looking for - itвЂ™s just a matter of thinking through the steps and finding the right sequence of actions to get you there. More than anything, IвЂ™ve come to think of these things as little logic puzzles. All it really takes is a little time to put all the pieces together. This idea isnвЂ™t unique to Apple - if youвЂ™re a geek of a certain age, you probably know these as strings of actions better as вЂњmacros.вЂќД«uilding your first Shortcut can seem daunting at first, but relax: You donвЂ™t need to be a coder to create a truly useful setup. In a nutshell, Shortcuts let you quickly perform a specific task, or a more complex sequence of tasks, with a single tap or voice command. And if youвЂ™re an iPhone or an iPad user, AppleвЂ™s Shortcuts feature just might be able to help. Now is as good a time as any to start cleaning things out.

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If youвЂ™re anything like us, your devices are full of old photos, files and apps taking up valuable storage space. вЂњSpring cleaningвЂќ usually conjures up images of tedious housework, but itвЂ™s worth thinking about tidying up your smartphone and tablet, too - and I donвЂ™t mean physically, though that might also be a good idea.

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