Book Mode
Opens the Books app, then prompts you to confirm setting orientation lock so the screen doesn’t rotate. When run from Mac, opens the app in fullscreen.
Open Book Store
Opens the Books app to the Book Store tab where you find and buy books.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Book%20Store
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Book%20Store
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Book Store”
end tell
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Change Books Theme
Presents the various Themes in Books to choose from, then applies the setting of your choice.
Search Books
Asks you to enter a query, then searches for the result in the Books app.
Open Books search
Changes the Books app view to Search, showing Recently Viewed, trending genres for you, a section to Discover books, and Trending searches.
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Pick an Elgato Winner
For a given CSV file of exported entries from a Ti.to event, pick a random name and show it.
Built for my Elgato giveaway during the Shortcuts User Group meetup at WWDC’24.
Copy to my clipboard manager
Copies your clipboard and stores the contents over time, plus lets you pull from your clipboard history.
Change Focus settings
Opens the deep link into Settings > Focus so you can change details or adjust Home Screens.
Open Find My settings
Opens the deep link into the Find My settings of the Apple ID preferences on iOS and iPadOS.
Toggle grayscale
Toggles the Color Filters accessibility setting, which can turn your device black or white and remove all color if set to grayscale (among other options).
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