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Get and send your ETA

These are shortcuts that send your ETA to the person of your choice, whether you're heading home or somewhere else.

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Get and Send ETA to Home

Run this shortcut just before leaving some place to go home and it will tell you how long it will take and then send that info in a text to someone you choose, perhaps someone who's already there and would like to know when you'll arrive. The handy thing about this shortcut is that to get your ETA from Google Maps you need to actually start the directions running, when most of the time I already know how to get home, so this saves you from having to go through that whole flow.

How to use

How to use

  1. Run the shortcut.
  2. The shortcut will tell you what your ETA is and automatically send a text to the person you chose during set up.
  3. The shortcut will open Google Maps to the chosen address.

How it works

How it works

When you download the shortcut, the shortcut will ask for your home address and the person in your contacts to send the message to. This information is only stored and your phone and not sent to me or anyone else. Then you just need to run the shortcut when needed and it takes care of the rest.

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Get and Send ETA to Pickup Place

This is a good shortcut for when you need to pick someone up at a certain location regularly. This gets your ETA to that place from your current location, then it sends a message to the person you're picking up to let them know where you're coming from and when they can expect you.

How to use

How to use

  1. Run the shortcut.
  2. The shortcut will get your current location and your ETA to the place you specify, and then sends the message.
  3. That's it!

How it works

How it works

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Redo Your ETA

Most of the time traffic between home and work is so bad that my original ETA will get significantly farther away from what I originally sent over the ~2 hours it takes to get home. When you run it, this shortcut calculates a new ETA from your current location and sends it to the person of your choice.

How to use

How to use

Just run it and it does the rest. I recommend using Siri to run this one so you don't touch your phone while driving.

How it works

How it works

Download
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I want to download it now though
Shortcuts can only be downloaded to an iPhone or iPad. Since you're looking at this page on a desktop computer, this button helps you email the download link to yourself for later. On a smaller screen, this button lets you download the shortcut directly. I'm typing out this message because I want to impress you.

How to get started with Shortcuts

If you have iOS 13, you already have the Shortcuts app. That means that if you're on your iPhone or iPad right now, you can just click the Download button to download a shortcut. If you're not on your phone, you can email the link to yourself to download it later.

You can can start using most shortcuts right away, unless they work with another app that you need to have installed. That will be indicated on the in the post above. Once you have downloaded a shortcut, it belongs to you and you can make any changes you like. The shortcuts I make and publish here don't send any data back to me and I don't make any money from publishing them.

Once you have download a shortcut you can choose how to run it. These are your options:

  1. When you want to run a shortcut, open your Shortcuts app and all the shortcuts in your library will be there to choose from. Just tap on it.
  2. To save the step of navigating to your Shortcuts app you can add a shortcut to your iPhone’s home screen so it’s easily accessible.
  3. Some shortcuts will automatically show up in your phone’s Share menu under “Shortcuts”.
  4. In the shortcut’s settings you can “Add to Siri” by recording a phrase that will trigger it. Later you can say “Hey Siri” followed by that phrase and Siri will run that shortcut for you.
  5. You can also set up shortcuts to run automatically in the Automations tab in the Shortcuts app. You can select from a good variety of triggers such as "When my wake up alarm stops" or "When I arrive at work".
Author:
Tara Devlin
FIRST POSTED:
February 16, 2020
LAST UPDATED:
September 25, 2020
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