Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
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.
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Opens to the latest stories from Wired available for Apple News+ subscribers, as well as links to the various issues above.
Opens the deep link into Apple News+ for the Emoji game. Here’s how Apple describes it:
“The object of this logic and word puzzle is to complete several phrases with as few moves as possible. Each emoji may be interpreted directly, through association, or in combination with other emoji. When you attempt an answer or expand a clue, it counts as a move.”
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.
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.
Opens into the Audio Stories section of Apple News+ so you can listen on your device.
Ues the Transistor API to get your show data and presents it in a nicely-formatted view. Requires the Actions app.
Pulls random photos from your Home Screen and Lock Screen albums, then sets them as your wallpaper accordingly.
Turns the main lighting of Hue lamps, light strips, and Go bulbs in my studio space on or off.
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