iPhone shortcuts · $4.99
Stop answering what time will you be home.
Two shortcuts that text your family your real arrival time, read off live traffic. One runs on its own when you leave work. One asks where you are coming from. Both install in a tap.
Get both shortcuts, $4.99Written steps for both are free. This is the version you do not have to build.
What you are getting
On My Way Home
Runs by itself. You leave work, and your phone reads the traffic and texts your person the arrival time. You never touch it.
The ETA menu
Lives on your home screen. Tap it and it asks where you are coming from: work, school, the store, or wherever you happen to be. One tap and the text goes.
Current location covers the rest
The menu has an option for wherever you are standing, so it keeps working on the days that do not fit the plan.
Both messages are yours
Change the wording and the person it goes to in about ten seconds. Mine asks for a hand with the groceries. Yours can say whatever your house needs.
What you get
- Both shortcuts, installed in one tap each. Nothing to build.
- A short guide that shows you the four things to swap: your home address, your starting addresses, your person, and the message.
- The setup for the automation trigger, written out tap by tap, since that part lives in iPhone settings rather than in the shortcut.
- The arrival version too, the small second automation that texts the house when you actually pull in.
The written steps for all of this are free and always will be. This is for people who would rather spend five dollars than twenty minutes.
Before you buy
What you need
An iPhone on iOS 17 or newer, the Shortcuts app that came with it, and location services on. No new apps and no subscription.
What it uses
Apple Maps for the travel time and Messages for the text. Both are already on your phone.
Android
These are iPhone shortcuts. There is no Android version yet, and I would rather tell you that here than after you paid.
$4.99
Yours to keep. One purchase, no subscription.
Get both shortcutsI am Cassie, a mom of five. I built these because the what time will you be home text was costing us an argument a week.