Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
See issues from National Geographic
Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.
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Show Puzzles in Apple News
Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Show My Sports news
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.
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.
See stories from Bay Area
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=See%20issues%20from%20National%20Geographic
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=See%20issues%20from%20National%20Geographic
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “See issues from National Geographic”
end tell
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Opens the Account page of the App Store app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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Asks you to enter a folder title and creates it, then for a list of shortcut names (with any text prepended or appended), then creates those shortcuts in the folder – designed for quickly making Home Screen shortcuts.
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For a given contact, asks you to enter a payment amount (which is then divided by 2), then asks for a description, and sends the split total as a payment to the contact.
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Checks for anyone whose birthday is today and starts a message to wish them a happy birthday.
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