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.
See stories from San Francisco Chronicle
Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=See%20stories%20from%20San%20Francisco%20Chronicle
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=See%20stories%20from%20San%20Francisco%20Chronicle
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “See stories from San Francisco Chronicle”
end tell
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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.
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.
Show NBA news
Opens to News stories about the NBA, including scores, schedules, teams, and special curated categories for events like the Playoffs.
Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
Read about Apple
Presents a menu of options for opening into Apple, HomeKit, or Apps stories in the News app.
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Reset Background Sounds
Deactivates Background Sounds and the same “When Media Is Playing,” plus resets the volume to 10% and sound to Balanced Noise.
Open my Transistor dashboard
Opens the default episodes dashboard on Transistorm for a pre-selected podcast.
Show my Hearing data
Opens into the Health app to the Hearing category where you can see headphone audio levels, environmental sound levels, environmental sound reduction, and any noise notifications or hearing test results.
Run a shortcut from a folder
Asks you to pick a folder, then a shortcut, then runs it right away.
Copy calendar week
Asks you to enter a date, then generates the calendar week plus start or end dates.
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