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.
Open Apple News Spotlight
Opens into the special News+ Spotlight section of the News app curated by Apple editors, including sections like Conversation Starters, Better Living, Weekend Reads, Good News, and Best of News+.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20News%20Spotlight
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20News%20Spotlight
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Apple News Spotlight”
end tell
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Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Read about Apple
Presents a menu of options for opening into Apple, HomeKit, or Apps stories in the News app.
Show News+ Audio Stories
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News+ so you can listen on your device.
Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
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Open a book from my library
Opens a specific book from your library, prompting you to pick which book.
Save thread to Notes
Accepts a Thread link, scrapes the data, and formats it quickly for Notes.
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Takes an item ID and adds it to the Things deep link back to that item.
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