Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips

Ridesharing shortcuts

Asks you to enter a destination and the number of people, then requests a ride using your app of choice.

Asks you to enter a pickup location, then goes through a ride request flow.

Gets a ride to your home address, asking for the total number of passengers before requesting.

Requests a single-person ride to your work address.

Asks you to pick from upcoming events from your calendar, gets the location, asks for total passengers, and requests a ride to your destination.

Opens the deep link into Parks and Recreation in the TV app.

Looks at the Health app for total steps and distance for today, then formats the information to display in an alert or be spoken back from Siri.

Presents menu options for opening into the Home, Shows, Movies, and Upcoming sections of Apple TV+ in the TV app, plus categories for genres.