Open current book
Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.
Open Finished books
Opens the Books app to the Finished tab where you can see past books you’ve completed.
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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 Books search
Changes the Books app view to Search, showing Recently Viewed, trending genres for you, a section to Discover books, and Trending searches.
Open a book from my library
Opens a specific book from your library, prompting you to pick which book.
Show what I’m reading now
Changes the Book app’s view to the Reading Now section (the main section).
Show books I want to read
Opens the Books app to the “Want to Read” section that’s built up when you mark books as such.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Finished%20books
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Finished%20books
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Finished books”
end tell
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Open Bluesky Search
Opens the Search page on Bluesky where you can enter your query, find suggested accounts, and discover new feeds.
Play iPhone boot chime
Gets the base64-encoded text for the iPhone boot chime, decodes it, and plays the sound out loud.
Manage Kindle Docs
Views the Docs category in the Content section of Amazon’s “Manage Your Content and Devices” for Kindle.
Show Apple Cash
Opens the Wallet app to the Apple Cash “card” where you can see your balance send or request money, or see past transactions.
Browse Apple Developer topics
Presents a list of categories from Apple’s developer pages, then reformats the option of your choosing into the URL for that category and opens it.
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