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The Google Chrome team is working on a feature that will use iOS 12’s “Shortcuts” feature. When launched, this will enable you to say “open most visited sites” and Siri should open Chrome for you.

Is it going to launch Chrome and show the new tab page with the most visited sites? Or, is the team working on something more interesting? We will have to wait for few more weeks at the least, to figure that out.

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The Code

So, here is what I found today:

HACKATHON: [ios] Add most visited siri shortcut intent.

To make sure that this is iOS 12 Shortcuts that we are talking about, I looked up the developer documentation for this feature. I don’t write code, but I could see the similarity right away:

This is from Chrome’s code

This is from iOS sample code for Shortcuts

Now, for those of you who do not know what iOS shortcuts are, here is a quick video explaining this feature:

So, what do you think? Would you like to have such a feature on your Android phone too, perhaps working with the Assistant? Let me know in comments!