TL;DNR

When you share a link from Apple News, it gives you a link that tries to open the article in Apple News. When sharing outside the Apple ecosystem, like on Facebook, that is obnoxious.

This shortcuts gets the real link to the original source and let’s you:

• copy to clipboard
• post to Facebook
• Tweet
• Save to Diigo bookmark service

Why this shortcut?

Of course it is possible to open an Apple News link without Apple News. However, there is an interstitial step and the URL is just ugly.

The recipient can't tell where the URL goes to. For example, https://apple.news/ATdwN0w0SQzm3rm7TCqyxJw goes to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/politics/supreme-court-lgbtq-rights.html But how would you know that? There are times I just prefer to share the real URL without disclosing to Apple any information.

This shortcut includes Embed-a-Update, so it requires no external shortcuts or resources like UpdateKit. Embed-a-Update is also very fast. Enjoy.

If this Shortcut doesn’t work as expected, you have suggestions, or an idea to improve it, let me know!

See also:

• Save to Diigo which saves a link to the Diigo.com bookmark service