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.
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.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20my%20saved%20stories
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20my%20saved%20stories
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show my saved stories”
end tell
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Read about Apple
Presents a menu of options for opening into Apple, HomeKit, or Apps stories in the News app.
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.
Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
See stories from San Francisco Chronicle
Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
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Reset Background Sounds
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Quick dictate
Starts dictation and captures after a pause, copying the result to the clipboard so you can paste it.
Open Action Button settings
Opens the deep link into the Settings app to the Action button page where you can customize its function (and set it to a shortcut).
Rename files with numbers prepended
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