Open Apple Music Essentials
Opens the Apple Music curator page for Essentials playlists of the top tracks from popular artists – great for playing across an artist’s discography instead of picking an album.
Actions Used
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20Music%20Essentials
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20Music%20Essentials
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Apple Music Essentials”
end tell
More From This Folder
Quick play
Finds 25 random songs from the last 12 weeks and starts playing it on shuffle.
Open a genre playlist
Opens the curated playlists for each genre page in Apple Music (formerly A-List playlists).
Play Jazz radio
Presents a list of Jazz radio stations on Apple Music, then opens the link to immediately start playing the station.
Open Apple Music TV
Opens the deep link into Apple Music TV, immediately starting the currently-playing music videos.
Play Discovery station
Plays Apple Music’s newest “Discovery” station that plays curated tracks from outside your library or playlists.
Share my Apple Music profile
Shares the link to your Apple Music profile found in the Music app.
More From The Library
Open Club MacStories
Shows the main homepage for Club Macstories, the members-only portion of the MacStories website with weekly newsletters, community events, and private stories with more advanced techniques.
Open the Gallery
Opens the Gallery tab of the Shortcuts app where you can see Suggested Shortcuts.
Toggle Control Center
Activates or deactivates Control Center (depending on its current status) – works best with Siri.
Detect doors
Opens the Magnifier app and activates the Detect Items feature set to detect Doors in the Camera view.
Open Star Wars on Disney Plus
Shows the Star Wars category of content in Disney+ like the three trilogies, TV shows, or animated serie
Voice Dictation in Perplexity
Simulates the keyboard shortcut for Command + Shift + D, which activates the Perplexity voice dictation in the search bar so you can enter a query hands-free.
Get way deeper into Shortcuts – become a member.