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.

Scripting Actions

Apps, News

Show Today Feed

Shows stories from the Today feed in Apple News.

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Show%20Today%27s%20top%20stories

Link to Open Shortcut

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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