Set default device settings
Sets appearance, Night Shift, True Ton, brightness, and volume to your preset choices – including options for daytime or evening.
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
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Screen%20saver
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Screen%20saver
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Screen saver”
end tell
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Check battery level
Gets the current battery state, checking for connection or charging status and showing the total battery level as a percentage.
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.
Put Display to Sleep
Puts the current display to sleep (while still keeping the device awake)
Toggle Night Shift
Turns Night Shift on or off depending on the current state, removing the blue light accordin
Lock The Screen
Locks the screen of the current device, requring authentication for another user to sign in.
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YouTube Search
Asks you to type out your query, then for YouTube videos on the subject.
Show Flipboard picks
Opens the Flipboard Picks magazine curated by the Flipboard team to show interesting stories from the platform.
Get driving directions
Asks you to enter a destination, then opens driving directions in Apple Maps.
Set up Perplexity for Mac
Opens the Mac app for Perplexity AI, resizing the window to 1024×770 and moving it to the center of the current display.
Post to Threads
Asks you to enter the text of your post, then URL encodes the result and passes it to Threads’ URL scheme for creating posts. On Mac, copies the result and opens Threads.net.
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