Siri Shortcuts, apps, and technology tips

Maps

Search Apple Maps

Asks for your search query, encodes the text, then opens the deep link into Apple Music.

Reference: https: or or developer.apple.com or library or archive or featuredarticles or iPhoneURLScheme_Reference or MapLinks or MapLinks.html

Actions

Notification, Scripting

Ask for Input

Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.

Scripting, X-Callback

URL Encode

Encodes or decodes text passed into the action to be suitable for inclusion in a URL by adding or removing percents.

URLs, Web

URL

Passes the specified URL to the next action.

Location, Maps

Open in Maps

Opens your choice of Maps, Google Maps, or Waze and searches for the location, place, or text that was passed into the action.

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Get bus directions

Asks you for a location, then finds Transit directions from your Current Location.

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Get driving directions

Asks you to enter a destination, then opens driving directions in Apple Maps.

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Check BART departures

Using station codes and the BART API, gets real-time transit information for trains in the Bay Area.

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Take the bus home

Opens transit directions from your current location to your home address.

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Bike home

Opens biking directions to your home address from your current location.

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Show directions to work

Opens driving directions from your current location to work.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Search%20Apple%20Maps

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Search%20Apple%20Maps

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Search Apple Maps” end tell

Membership

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Share my photos

Prompts you to pick between Recents, Portraits, Selfies, and Panoramas to send via the Share sheet.

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See stories from Bay Area

Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.

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View custom date time formats

Previews a local webpage copy of Unicode Technical Standard #35 for Locale Data Markup Language, letting you see all the custom date format strings you can use in Shortcuts.

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Open Trackpad preferences

Opens the Trackpad preferences where you can change settings like Tracking Speed, Click intensity, silent clicking, and more. On iOS, opens Pointer settings.

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