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
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
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Play Jazz radio
Presents a list of Jazz radio stations on Apple Music, then opens the link to immediately start playing the station.
Play my Favorites mix
Plays the automatic Favorites Mix curated by Apple Music for you, updated Mondays.
Play Discovery station
Plays Apple Music’s newest “Discovery” station that plays curated tracks from outside your library or playlists.
Turn on KQED
Turns on my living room, turns off your alarm in case you’ve woken up before it, and softly plays the radio station on my HomePod.
Play my Friends mix
Starts the “Friends Mix” playlist from Apple Music’s Made For You feature – playlist is updated every Friday.
Play new music I haven’t listened to
FInd songs with 0 plays and released in the last 3 months, picks 25 at random, then shuffles them.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20Music%20Essentials
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20Music%20Essentials
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Apple Music Essentials”
end tell
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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.
Cross-post to Twitter and Threads
Prompts you to enter in a message, then copies the text, opens to Twitter for you to post, waits for you to return, then opens Threads with the message filled out. On Mac, opens the Threads website.
Open my book samples
Opens the My Sample section of the Books app to show books that you’ve downloaded previews for.
Search by ISBN
Scans a QR code, gets the text out, and performs a search on ISBNsearch.com.
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