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.
See stories from San Francisco Chronicle
Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
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Show Puzzles in Apple News
Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Show my saved stories
Opens into the Saved Stories tab of the News app, where you can quickly access news stories you’ve saved for later – I’ll often save multiple stories as I browse, then visit this tab to read them all one-by-one.
See stories from Bay Area
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
See stories from Apple News Today
Opens to the Apple News Today podcast category, where you can find individual episodes published as stories as well as links to articles mentioned in the show.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=See%20stories%20from%20San%20Francisco%20Chronicle
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=See%20stories%20from%20San%20Francisco%20Chronicle
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “See stories from San Francisco Chronicle”
end tell
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