Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Actions
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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+.
Show my saved stories
Opens into the Saved Stories tab of the News app, where you can quickly access news stories you’ve saved for later – I’ll often save multiple stories as I browse, then visit this tab to read them all one-by-one.
See stories from Bay Area
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Show News+ Audio Stories
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News+ so you can listen on your device.
Extract link from Apple News URL
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
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.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Read%20about%20Music
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Read%20about%20Music
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Read about Music”
end tell
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