See stories from Bay Area

Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.

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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.

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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+.

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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.

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Show me tech news

Uses the Show Topic action from News to open into the main Technology news category, which I’ve found is a good superset or generic term that captures all the best stories from tech subjects I’m interested in before I dive into more specific topics.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=See%20stories%20from%20Bay%20Area
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=See%20stories%20from%20Bay%20Area
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “See stories from Bay Area” end tell

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Opens the Health app to the Health Checklist page that lets you set up your iPhone to keep an eye on things for you, letting you quickly enable features like Emergency SOS, Medical ID, Crash Detection, Headphone Notifications, and Walking Steadiness Notifications.

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Opens into the Health app to the Health Records section of your Profile where you can see accounts, export Health Records to PDF, show Apps and Research studies, and change options like data sharing and analytics.

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