Apple Maps Route URL Shortcut

Updated 03192024-192911


Route in Apple Maps

Create a URL to open Apple Maps to directions between two points.

This Shortcut utilizes all native actions (for the moment) to construct a native URL via itty.bitty.site and Apple Maps' URL scheme which can be used as a hyperlink/from a web browser to launch the Apple Maps app (cross-platform) open in a directions view between two points of your specification. At the moment, specifying said locations is done via two unprompted Location actions.

Upon running the Shortcut:

  1. Choose a Start location.
  2. Choose a Destination location.
  3. Choose to have the URL open Apple Maps in one of three modes:
    1. Driving directions
    2. Walking directions
    3. Public transit directions

The URL will then be constructed and placed in the system clipboard via a standard Copy to Clipboard action.

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