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Play Sound
Plays the audio file passed as input, or a default notification sound if no audio file was passed.
Gets the deep link into the filesystem for the Announce Message tone and plays it out loud.
Gets the base64-encoded text for the Charlie Brown sad walking music, decodes it, and plays it out loud.
Takes encoded audio and decodes it into a sound, then plays it. Uses embedded audio or newly-encoded audio copied to the clipboard.
Gets the base64-encoded text for the iPhone boot chime, decodes it, and plays the sound out loud.
Gets the sound library from macOS, picks a random file, and plays it out loud.
Takes you into the Sounds settings, located in Settings > Sounds and Haptics on iOS and System Settings > Sounds on macOS.
Sets the Apple Watch to silent mode, turns on Do Not Disturb, sets the volume to 0% and vibrates if run from iPhone.
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.
Previews a local webpage copy of Unicode Technical Standard #35 for Locale Data Markup Language, letting you see all the custom date format strings you can use in Shortcuts.
Opens the Places collection in Photos to show the map or grid of where you’ve taken all your photos and videos.
Pulls the temperature and humidity from the Eve Room. Also works with HomePod mini.
Opens the Quick Entry feature in MindNode to a blank page, which lets me start building a nested outline that can be saved as a mind map.
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