Show Today’s top stories
Opens the News app and switches to the Today tab, showing you Top Stories, Trending Stories, For You categories, magazines, the Editor’s pick, and curated categories based on your past browsing.
Show My Sports news
Opens to the “Sports” tab in the News app where you can see live games and stories from your favorite teams. If on iPhone and iPad, you can open links directly to games in the TV app.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20My%20Sports%20news
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20My%20Sports%20news
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show My Sports news”
end tell
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Show News+ Audio Stories
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News+ so you can listen on your device.
Read about Apple
Presents a menu of options for opening into Apple, HomeKit, or Apps stories in the News app.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
Extract link from Apple News URL
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
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Gets a preset number of items from your unread list in Reeder, asks you to pick one, and opens it in the app.
Show LaunchPad
Activates the key code for F4’s native function, which triggers the LaunchPad feature that shows your app icons like an iOS Home Screen.
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Opens the Fandango app when run from iPhone or Fandango.com when run from other devices.
See Apple Store saved items
Opens the deep link into the Saved Items section of the Apple Store.
Share with AirDrop
Accepts a file from the Shortcut Input and activates AirDrop. Use with the Share Sheet and Quick Actions on macOS.
Show my Apple ID password
Searches the Passwords database for “AppleID” for when you need to authorize something.
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