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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.
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+.
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.
Opens to the “Sports” tab in the News app where you can see live games and stories from your favorite teams. If on iPhone and iPad, you can open links directly to games in the TV app.
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News+ so you can listen on your device.
Gets archived items from Reeder and asks you to choose one to open in the app.
Opens the SpeedTest app for Apple TV which lets you check your internet’s upload and download speeds.
Prompts you to pick between Recents, Portraits, Selfies, and Panoramas to send via the Share sheet.
Takes two dates chosen as input and calculates the duration in seconds between thme – works as a Unix timestamp converter.
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