Show Today’s top stories
Opens the News app and switches to the Today tab, showing you Top Stories, Trending Stories, For You categories, magazines, the Editor’s pick, and curated categories based on your past browsing.
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Opens the News app and switches to the Today tab, showing you Top Stories, Trending Stories, For You categories, magazines, the Editor’s pick, and curated categories based on your past browsing.
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+.
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
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.
Presents a menu of options for opening into Apple, HomeKit, or Apps stories in the News app.
Dials the number for 1-800-APL-CARE, the phone number for getting assistance with products for which you’ve purchased AppleCare.
Opens Fandango to the section with movies available to go see now in theaters.
Pulls random photos from your Home Screen and Lock Screen albums, then sets them as your wallpaper accordingly.
Saves a story to reading list if one is found, otherwise opens the Reading List section of Safari.
Opens Feedback Assistant on macOS and presses Command + N to create a new feedback report.
Switches the Threads app to your own profile. Userful for checking your follower count.
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