Apple’s Shortcuts app offers tremendous power, especially with iOS 26’s additions around AI . But my own most-used shortcuts tend to be extremely simple, including one shared by Quinn Nelson for opening an app’s settings.

In iOS 18, Apple redesigned the iPhone’s Settings app entirely. And unfortunately, this revamp made it harder to get to an app’s settings menu.

But last fall, Quinn Nelson shared a shortcut that makes opening an app’s Settings screen so much faster and easier than before. All you have to do is:

Install this single-step ‘App Settings’ shortcut

Add a Control Center ‘Run Shortcut’ control

Assign that control to your new ‘App Settings’ shortcut

After completing the setup, the next time you’re using an app and want to open its settings, you can just:

swipe to open Control Center

run the shortcut

and you’ll jump straight into the right section of the Settings app

Here’s Nelson’s screen recording to show what it looks like:

This single-step Apple Shortcut is a GAME CHANGER.…