There's a lot of interesting shortcuts out there, and plenty of custom ones you can make on your own, but to use a simple example, here's how you'd set the Action Button to start a Pomodoro timer.

So even without having a dedicated and space-required “Action button,” we can use it to create the same basic idea within any of your existing buttons — like the power and volume keys.

Now I have a button that opens Control Center at any time. But you can go so, so much deeper. Jason Snell wrote about how you can make the Action button perform different actions based on ...