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Shortcuts is about a decade old and was acquired by Apple 8 years ago. It has hooks into the OS and allows apps to expose their own hooks for automation.

Are you looking for a real answer or is this some weird defensive Android thing in response to someone describing the existence of an Apple feature?

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Not sure what makes you think I was on the defensive, I asked a question. I am a regular user of both operating systems so I have no 'team' nor am I an iOs hater.

A similar app has existed for Android for about 15 years at a time when nothing like that existed for iOs. It was actually used by Google to showcase Android's potential for automation in contrast to iOs which had nothing like that at the time.

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