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 Puzzles in Apple News
Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20Puzzles%20in%20Apple%20News
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20Puzzles%20in%20Apple%20News
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show Puzzles in Apple News”
end tell
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Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
See stories from WIRED
Opens to the latest stories from Wired available for Apple News+ subscribers, as well as links to the various issues above.
Show NBA news
Opens to News stories about the NBA, including scores, schedules, teams, and special curated categories for events like the Playoffs.
Show quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers 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.
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Add link of the week
Searches for a note called “Links of the Week” and appends the shortcut input or clipboard text to the end in the Notes app.
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Takes an input location or your current location and searches for gas stations, then gives you driving directions to your choice.
Turn on AirDrop
Sets AirDrop receiving to Everyone so you can send or recieve content.
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Change the Number to the correct amount of nits for your device’s display if you don’t have an iPad Pro – look it up with “[device name] display nits” online.
Play my Replay 2023
Plays the preselected Replay 2023 playlist on Shuffle. This year, my top tracks are full of electronic and Fred Again – plus, Mall Rat from The Sims (which I listening to on repeat jokingly and then not jokingly while doing chores).
Copy iCloud link
Takes any files shared as input or, if none are present, presents a Document Picker to select them manually, then shares those files using iCloud Drive – the resulting URL is copied to the clipboard to be shared with others for easy access.
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