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+.
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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.
See stories from WIRED
Opens to the latest stories from Wired available for Apple News+ subscribers, as well as links to the various issues above.
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.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20News%20Spotlight
Link to Open Shortcut
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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Alarm picker
Presents a list of all of your alarms so you can choose which one to toggle.
Create new podcast episode
Opens Transistor.fm to the new episode page for your pre-selected podcast so you can upload a new file, give it a title and description, and publish.
Add Now Playing to Menu Bar
Displays the current song playing in Apple Music in the Menu Bar.
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