Set default device settings
Sets appearance, Night Shift, True Ton, brightness, and volume to your preset choices – including options for daytime or evening.
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.
Sets appearance, Night Shift, True Ton, brightness, and volume to your preset choices – including options for daytime or evening.
Gets the current battery state, checking for connection or charging status and showing the total battery level as a percentage.
Displays device details in a prompt, incluing OS, device type, system version, system build number, device model, device hostname, and the device name.
Puts the current display to sleep (while still keeping the device awake)
Turns Night Shift on or off depending on the current state, removing the blue light accordin
Locks the screen of the current device, requring authentication for another user to sign in.
Asks you to type out your query, then for YouTube videos on the subject.
Opens the Flipboard Picks magazine curated by the Flipboard team to show interesting stories from the platform.
Asks you to enter a destination, then opens driving directions in Apple Maps.
Opens the Mac app for Perplexity AI, resizing the window to 1024×770 and moving it to the center of the current display.
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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