Apple News

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.

Actions Used

Apps, News

Show Today Feed

Shows stories from the Today feed in Apple News.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20Today%27s%20top%20stories

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20Today%27s%20top%20stories

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Show Today’s top stories” end tell

Membership

More From This Folder

Show Puzzles in Apple News

Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.

Get Shortcut »

See issues from National Geographic

Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.

Get Shortcut »

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.

Get Shortcut »

Show crosswords

Opens the Crossword section of the News app.

Get Shortcut »

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.

Get Shortcut »

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+.

Get Shortcut »