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.
Actions Used
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20Today%27s%20top%20stories
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Show%20Today%27s%20top%20stories
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Show Today’s top stories”
end tell
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