Opens the “Puzzles” section available for Apple News+ subscribers, which shows Crosswords, Crossword Mini, and Quartiles games.
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Opens the deep link into Apple News+ for the Emoji game. Here’s how Apple describes it:
“The object of this logic and word puzzle is to complete several phrases with as few moves as possible. Each emoji may be interpreted directly, through association, or in combination with other emoji. When you attempt an answer or expand a clue, it counts as a move.”
Opens to the “Issues” tab of the Nat Geo magazine in Apple News+, where you can open or download specific issues.
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 to News stories about the NBA, including scores, schedules, teams, and special curated categories for events like the Playoffs.
Gets RSS feeds from the input URL, converts it to text, and shows it in a popover.
Plays the main curated radio station for Apple Music, previously known as Beats 1.
Uses base64-encoded audio from the Untitled Goose Game and decodes it, then plays the sound.
Opens to the Subscribers tab of the Transistor website for your podcast where you can see total listeners, how many remaining you have in your plan, manage subscribers, and share an invite link.
Opens to the Movies and TV Trailers section of the TV app (which replaced the dedicated Trailers app).
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