Play an audiobook
Asks you to pick from your library of audiobooks to play.
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Resume my audiobook
Starts playing the most recently-active audiobook in Apple Books.
Open Audiobook Store
Opens the Books app to the Audiobook Store section where you can find and buy new audiobooks.
Open my audiobooks
Opens the Books app to the Audiobooks tab to show items you’ve purchased.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Play%20an%20audiobook
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Play%20an%20audiobook
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Play an audiobook”
end tell
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Activates Sidecar for an iPad mini near your Mac. Works remotely from iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and HomePod using Siri over SSH.
Show Colors in Freeform
Opens Freeform, then presses the keyboard shortcut for opening the Color picker.
Play my Replay 2020
Plays the preselected Replay 2020 playlist on Shuffle. Apparently during lockdown, I listened to Lockdown and Make It Better by Anderson .Paak a lot – for some reason.
Describe this
Opens the Magnifier app and activates the “Describe This” feature that “provides a description of what’s in the camera view.”
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