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.
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Presents a menu of options for opening into Apple, HomeKit, or Apps stories in the News app.
Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
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.
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+.
Turns on the Apple TV and opens the Fireplace app, plus shows the remote.
Function for taking timecodes like 01:45:30 and adding up the hours or minutes or seconds into a single unit (seconds) that can be used for calculations; or, more specifically, YouTube timestamps.
Asks for your friend’s location and a type of destination, then searches near the halfway point for a place to go.
Check for contacts whose birthdays are in the next two weeks and displays their name and the date.
Asks you for a title for a board, then creates it in Freeform without opening the app.
Prompts you to type in or dictate a task if run from Siri, then asks you to choose between “Work” and “Personal” – Work sends the task to the Things inbox, Personal sends it to a Reminders list called Inbox.
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