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.
Show My Sports news
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.
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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 quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Extract link from Apple News URL
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20My%20Sports%20news
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20My%20Sports%20news
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show My Sports news”
end tell
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Asks you to pick from upcoming events from your calendar, gets the location, asks for total passengers, and requests a ride to your destination.
Show my backup card
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.
Open all inboxes
Opens the All Inboxes view in Mail using Open Mailbox on iOS or AppleScript on Mac.
Show my main calendars
Changes the Calendar Set in Fantastical to Main Calendars, then opens Today.
Start Podcasts
Immediately play the latest episode or first item in Listen Now in the Podcasts app.
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