Open Apple News Spotlight
Opens into the special News+ Spotlight section of the News app curated by Apple editors, including sections like Conversation Starters, Better Living, Weekend Reads, Good News, and Best of News+.
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.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20My%20Sports%20news
Open Shortcut deep link
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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Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.
Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
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.
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.
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Copy Markdown image with caption
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Arrange 2 screens vertically
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