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
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20Puzzles%20in%20Apple%20News
Link to Open Shortcut
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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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 quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Read about photography
Presents a menu to browse stories around photography, cameras, editing, photoshop, or individual photographer
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+.
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.
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Opens the TV app to your library view of Recent Purchases of movies and tv shows.
Set a Focus timer
Asks you to pick a time, then a Focus, then turns it on until that time.
Change the current wallpaper
Pick a photo or file, then set it as your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or both.
Show Meta AI Studio
Opens the URL to the AI Studio from Meta (hosted on Instagram.com) where you can create your own AI or “find and interact with AIs created by others.”
Watch my favorite streamers
Prompts you to choose from a dictionary of your favorite streamers and opens the link to their channel.
Copy the time across time zones
Input a time, then calculate and copy the values for a prefilled list of time zones and corresponding emoji.
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