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.
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.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20my%20saved%20stories
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20my%20saved%20stories
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show my saved stories”
end tell
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