Remember the first time you set up an IFTTT Applet and thought, wait, that actually worked? You probably immediately started wondering what else you could connect. That's the feeling we're always chasing, and this April, we've got four very good answers.
New services
Your automation toolkit just got bigger. From project management to e-commerce to your daily horoscope, seven new services are now live and ready to connect.
Introducing IFTTT MCP
You've probably noticed this by now: AI assistants are great at figuring out what needs to happen. Actually making it happen still falls on you.
Claude can research, plan, write, and advise. But at the end of the conversation, you're still the one copying the output somewhere, firing off the message, triggering the next step.
That's the gap IFTTT MCP closes.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that gives AI assistants a way to connect to external tools and actually do things in them. IFTTT MCP puts over 1,000 services on the other end of that connection: smart home devices, productivity tools, social platforms, communication apps, all reachable by your AI assistant.
Learn more about it in these guides:
Try our MCP today here.
Check out popular AI Applets that are trending this month
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Name new iOS Photos automatically and save to Google Drive
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Send a weekly meal plan by Email
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Automatically generate ChatGPT response to emails when you tag them #ChatGPT
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Add a Spotify track and get notified when you write a Note
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Use ChatGPT to auto-reply to new Google Business reviews
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Email AI meeting summaries from new Google Docs notes
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iOS Shortcuts can now pass text into your IFTTT workflows
If you use iOS Shortcuts, you know they're great for automating things on your iPhone. But they've always been limited to what Apple allows. The Shortcut automation started trigger lets you kick off an IFTTT workflow the moment a Shortcut runs, and now, with the new Content ingredient, you can send a piece of text along with it, so it can be used to trigger something meaningful on the other end.
For iOS users who've wanted SMS-triggered Applets, this is the update you've been waiting for. iOS Shortcuts can already be configured to run based on who a message is from or what it contains, but until now, there was no way to get the actual message text into your Applet.
The Content ingredient changes that. It's not a full iOS SMS service, but for anyone who's ever wished IFTTT could work with their iPhone messages the way it does on Android, this is the closest it's ever been.
For example, a Shortcut can pick a nearby coffee shop and pass the name and address directly to a Slack message. The Content ingredient carries the text from your Shortcut straight into the action.
Try these iOS Shortcuts Applets
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Close MyQ garage door with a Siri Shortcut
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Get a VoIP Call from IFTTT When an iOS Shortcut Runs
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Get a call for important texts
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Change the lights when I tap an NFC tag
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Applet DataStore: store and share variables across your Applets
DataStore gives your Applets a shared memory, a place to store information that persists between runs and is available across your whole setup. Once a value is saved, it shows up as an ingredient anywhere in your Applets, the same way any other piece of data would. Your automations stop behaving like a collection of separate triggers and start working like a single, connected system.
What does that look like in practice? Say you're auto-posting new articles from an RSS feed to your X (Twitter) account. Without any memory, your Applet fires every time a new item appears, which could mean five posts in an hour from a busy feed. With DataStore, the Applet remembers the last time it posted. If it hasn't been long enough, it holds back. Your audience gets a steady stream without you having to think about it.
Here are a few other things DataStore makes possible:
- - Limiting how often an Action runs (no more 3AM notification floods)
- - Tracking timestamps and counters across automations
- - Coordinating multiple Applets so they behave like one intelligent system
You can learn more about DataStore here.
Go build something that saves you time
All three features are live right now. Pull up the IFTTT editor, crack open DataStore, wire in your AI assistant, and see what you can build when everything works together.
If you're new here, welcome! You can start a free trial of IFTTT Pro and start automating.
