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+.
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+.
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
Opens the deep link into Apple News+ for the Emoji game. Here’s how Apple describes it:
“The object of this logic and word puzzle is to complete several phrases with as few moves as possible. Each emoji may be interpreted directly, through association, or in combination with other emoji. When you attempt an answer or expand a clue, it counts as a move.”
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.
Asks you to pick a screen for the top and bottom of a vertical arrangement.
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
Grabs a to-do from Things set for Today and displays it in the Menu Bar using One Thing.
Finds and plays the latest episode of TBPN in the Apple Podcasts app. Also follows the show if you’re not already.
For a given YouTube Channel ID, creates a RSS feed link for that channel.
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