Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Watch Mission Impossible
Presents a menu of the 7 movies in the Mission Impossible series (so far) and lets you open the film of choice in the TV app.
Actions Used
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Watch%20Mission%20Impossible
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Watch%20Mission%20Impossible
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Watch Mission Impossible”
end tell
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Opens to the Movies and TV Trailers section of the TV app (which replaced the dedicated Trailers app).
Watch Star Wars
Presents a menu of all the Star Wars films and TV shows in order, linking to the TV app page for each entity.
Show Included With Apple TV
Opens the TV app to the “Included with Apple TV” category, showing the occassional set of movies that Apple makes free temporarily to go along with the theme of new Apple TV+ Originals.
Watch Harry Potter
Shows a menu that lets you pick from the 8 movies in the Harry Potter series and opens your choice in the TV app.
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Opens the TV app to the dedicated section for Friday Night Baseball.
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Opens the Amazon app to the Cart tab so you can what you’ve added so far, check the subtotal, and find items saved for later.
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Browse Apple Developer topics
Presents a list of categories from Apple’s developer pages, then reformats the option of your choosing into the URL for that category and opens it.
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