Control appearance
Presents a menu for various times of the day, then changes the device settings to make the screen easier to read depending on that time.
Turn screen black and white
Toggles the Color Filters feature from Accessibility settings to remove color from the display and turn everything black and white.
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Toggle dark mode
Gets the current appearance, and if Dark Mode is on, switches to Light (and vice versa). Add additional customizations per condition as desired.
Open Appearance preferences
Opens the deep link into the Displays > Device Appearance settings on iOS and the Appearance pane on macOS.
How many nits?
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.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Turn%20screen%20black%20and%20white
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Turn%20screen%20black%20and%20white
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Turn screen black and white”
end tell
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Opens to the free stories shared by the San Francisco Chronicle for Apple News+.
Toggle Water Lock
Activates or deactivates the Water Lock setting on your Apple Watch, ejecting water from the speaker as needed.
Open Software Update
Opens the Software Update section of Settings to see if new betas and updates are available.
Open Health settings
Opens the Settings app to the Health section to let you change your Health Details and Medical ID information, plus Data Access and Devices, Health Records, and Health Checklist.
Open links from Reminders
Looks for incomplete reminders that contain URLs, then lets you pick from the list and open the links in Safari.
Toggle Auto Convert to Tag
Switches the Notes feature for automatically converting hashtags into tags on or off.
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