Check battery level
Gets the current battery state, checking for connection or charging status and showing the total battery level as a percentage.
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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Set default device settings
Sets appearance, Night Shift, True Ton, brightness, and volume to your preset choices – including options for daytime or evening.
Toggle True Tone
Turns True Tone on or off on the current device, adapting the display temperature to the current surroundings.
Get device details
Displays device details in a prompt, incluing OS, device type, system version, system build number, device model, device hostname, and the device name.
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Reset Background Sounds
Deactivates Background Sounds and the same “When Media Is Playing,” plus resets the volume to 10% and sound to Balanced Noise.
Turn on the screensaver
Wakes up the specified Apple TV, then activates the built-in Screen Saver feature to display ambient scenes instead of the Home Screen.
Play Mac sound
Gets the sound library from macOS, picks a random file, and plays it out loud.
Check environmental levels
Opens the Health app to Environmental Volume Levels to display data gathered from the Noise app on Apple Watch.
Check Reddit RSS
From a list of subreddit names, lets you choose a subreddit, pull items from its RSS feed, and choose from the results before opening it into the Apollo app for Reddit.
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