Read about games
Presents a menu of various gaming-related News channels, like the generic Games, plus Video Games, Xbox, Nintendo, VR, Consoles, and Oculus channels in the News app.
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+.
More From This Folder
See stories from Apple News Today
Opens to the Apple News Today podcast category, where you can find individual episodes published as stories as well as links to articles mentioned in the show.
Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Show quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
See stories from WIRED
Opens to the latest stories from Wired available for Apple News+ subscribers, as well as links to the various issues above.
See issues from National Geographic
Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20News%20Spotlight
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20News%20Spotlight
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Apple News Spotlight”
end tell
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Open My List in Netflix
Opens the “My List” link taken from Netflix.com which redirects into the page of movies and TV shows you’ve saved in the app.
Reset Background Sounds
Deactivates Background Sounds and the same “When Media Is Playing,” plus resets the volume to 10% and sound to Balanced Noise.
Turn on noise cancellation
Connects to AirPods and activates noise cancellation. Utilizes AirBuddy when run from Mac, and on iOS uses Actions to check for AirPods Pro vs AirPods Max.
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