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HOME_GET_ME_HOME is a Citymapper Shortcuts action

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It’s a Citymapper action that gives directions to my home, which can be triggered using the Shortcuts app.

The other day, I pulled up Spotlight on my iPhone, and I saw a Siri Suggestion I didn’t recognise – it suggested HOME_GET_ME_HOME with Citymapper, which looks like a programmer’s variable name:

Siri Suggestions, which show four apps along the top, a Kindle action to 'Play current', and a Citymapper action to 'HOME_GET_ME_HOME'.

Maybe this is a variable name which has leaked, and there’s meant to be some more user-friendly text here – but the meaning is also pretty obvious to a non-programmer.

I did a bit of digging, and I found HOME_GET_ME_HOME as one of two Citymapper actions in the Shortcuts app, and it’s an action to “Get directions to your saved home in Citymapper”. You can use it in a shortcut – I imagine it might be useful for, say, a “leaving the office” shortcut which starts a playlist, texts your partner, and starts getting directions home.

More confusing is HOME_GET_ME_TO_WORK, an action to “Get directions to your saved work in Citymapper”.

(I’m running Citymapper 11.40.1; who knows if this will change in a future version.)