Workflow automation app has no ‘further updates planned’ following Apple acquisition – 9 to 5 Mac

Via iGeneration,it seems that the Workflow app is in maintenance mode and unlikely to gain any new features in the foreseeable future. According to an email reply a userreceived from Workflow support, there are no further updates planned for the automation appalthough theywill continue to maintainits existing functionality presumably with occasional bug fix releases.

When Apple acquiredWorkflow in March, it remainedavailable on the App Store,manyfans of the app saw this as a signal it was not going to be abandoned. This does not seem to be the case however.

When the Workflow acquisition was announced, the app was made free. Apple has since refunded some of the user base who paid for the app previously.

In the email reply iGeneration shared with 9to5Mac, the Workflow representativeleft little room for ambiguity.No new features are coming to the app (including no new updates to the gallery of pre-builtworkflows to choose from). Heres the text of the email:

We are no longer provide the ability to submit workflows to the Gallery, as we have no further planned updates for Workflow.Overall, we are continuing to support Workflows current functionality and have no plans to end support.

Apples plans for the Workflow team are unclearalthough the most obvious inference is that the company wants to build more advanced automationfeatures into iOS itself. The Workflow appshould probablybe seen as a stop-gap offering until somethingis included in the operating system natively.

As a third-party app, Workflow always faced limitations on what it could do. It would be logical to expect an Apple approach to iOS automation to be much more streamlined and morecapable.

Perhaps iOS 11 will give more visibility on Apples wider plans for professional iPhone and iPad users.Theres also the possibility that the Workflow team is now working on something completely different inside Apple and that the buyout was more of a talent acquihire.

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