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 “Sports” tab in the News app where you can see live games and stories from your favorite teams. If on iPhone and iPad, you can open links directly to games in the TV app.
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 the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Asks you to pick from upcoming events from your calendar, gets the location, asks for total passengers, and requests a ride to your destination.
Opens the Wallet app to the extra credit card you might have for backup purchases or emergency situations – the “don’t use this one” card.
Opens the All Inboxes view in Mail using Open Mailbox on iOS or AppleScript on Mac.
Changes the Calendar Set in Fantastical to Main Calendars, then opens Today.
Immediately play the latest episode or first item in Listen Now in the Podcasts app.
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