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Ive been using the apps new Siri shortcuts for about a week and, as I covered on AppStories today, the shortcuts Ive created that incorporate Remotes functionality are already ones that I use every day.

Once the menu bar app is installed and running, everything else happens in Remotes iOS app, which is divided into five tabs: Media, Input, Apps, Menu, and System.

There are buttons for playpause, skipping forward and back, volume up and down, and mute.

There are also controls accessible from a toolbar at the top of the screen for system features like brightness, arrow key controls, and AirPlay, as well as specific media apps and sites like iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.

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Ive tried the feature with my Mac, and they work well, but I dont have a Mac hooked up to a media center, so theyve only come in handy when I leave the room for some reason without pausing iTunes and am too lazy to head back to my desk to stop playback.

Along the top of the view is an option to mirror your Macs screen on your iOS device, which is handy if youre using the keyboard to enter text on your Mac, for example.

There are also buttons for moving the text insertion point one character at a time in either direction, triggering Mission Control and Launchpad, and opening Remotes Input Settings.

You can launch, quit, and minimize any of your Mac apps, enter full-screen mode, bring an app to the front, make an app a Remote Control for Mac favorite, force quit an app, and launch or quit apps according to a schedule.

If you have a lot of apps installed and only use a few with Remote, marking the ones you use as Favorites is a nice way to manage the list in Remote.

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The Menu tab lists all the menu commands for an active app, plus any Services that can be activated from that app using a keyboard shortcut.

With Screens in trackpad mode, I can use my finger to control the pointer on my Mac.

With Screens connected to a keyboard, I can make use of keyboard shortcuts on my Mac, but if I dont have a keyboard handy Remotes Menu tab is a better alternative to zooming in and out of my Macs screen to try to tap menu items.

Remote also works well as an app launcher and window manager side-by-side or in Slide Over mode with Screens because it allows me to do things I take for granted with a pointing device, which is harder when using a Mac interface on iOS.

The combination is sure to be useful as I set up more automation on my headless Mac mini.

You can log out, restart, shut down, lock, sleep, and wake your Mac as well as start and stop the screensaver and turn your display on and off.

Each of these events can be scheduled in Remote to occur automatically at a particular time or added as a Siri shortcut.

As I described on AppStories, Ill stop working for the day, go to bed, and then discover the next day that my display has been on all night.

Using Remotes new Siri shortcuts as actions, Ive created custom shortcuts that include Siri commands to start and end my workday.

In the morning I say Hey Siri, start workday, and the lights come on and my Mac wakes up.

In the evening, I do the opposite, telling Siri Im finished working, which turns off the lights and my Macs display.

Instead of grabbing my iPhone, finding the app, and hunting for the command I want, I can take care of waking my Mac and turning on the lights with one Siri command.

Remote also shows the power that is possible when iOS and macOS are used together, which is something I hope is part of Apples plans to bring iOS apps to the Mac.

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Id especially like Siri shortcuts for launching a series of apps and opening websites on my Mac as I start my day.

Remotes widget would also benefit from including a customizable set of Mac functions.

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