Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Set default device settings
Sets appearance, Night Shift, True Ton, brightness, and volume to your preset choices – including options for daytime or evening.
Actions
Set Volume
Sets the system volume. If you set the volume using a variable, use a number between 0 and 1 (for example, pass 0.5 for half volume).
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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.
Put Display to Sleep
Puts the current display to sleep (while still keeping the device awake)
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.
Toggle Night Shift
Turns Night Shift on or off depending on the current state, removing the blue light accordin
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Set%20default%20device%20settings
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Set%20default%20device%20settings
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Set default device settings”
end tell
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Opens the Inbox list in the Reminders app where you can see reminders added with Siri.
Open Bluetooth preferences
Opens the deep link into Settings > Bluetooth on iOS or the Bluetooth pane in System Settings on macOS.
Open Criterion TV
Opens the Criterion Collection app for Apple TV that lets you view films from the catalog.
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