Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips

TV Forecast shortcuts

Asks you to enter a query, then asks you to pick from a type of search before opening the URL scheme into TV Forecast.

Asks you for a person (actor, director, etc), then encodes the result and opens the URL scheme into TV Forecast.

Asks you for a show, then passes the term into the URL scheme for TV Forecast to open into search results.

Asks you to enter a movie, then searches for it in TV Forec

Opens the News app to stories from the Recipe Catalog feature, new in the new Food section in Apple News+.

Extracts the name and artwork for a given podcast, crops it to 16×9 using Pixelmator Pro for Mac, and saves the renamed file into Downloads.

Opens the Magnifier app and activates the Reader mode, which scans text and speaks it out loud