Screen saver

Starts the screen saver on your Mac. Choose from the Landscape, Cityscape, Underwater, Earth, or other options in System Settings and trigger it using this.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Screen%20saver
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Screen%20saver
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Screen saver” end tell

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