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Why on Earth did they tie it to Siri? Why can't I drop a shortcut on my home screen and tap it? Why does Siri have to be enabled? This feels like just a ploy to get Siri usage up.

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In addition to sibling comment, you can do just that, add it to the Shortcuts widget, or (as I just did an hour ago) add Shortcuts to the Share sheet and it will show up there. This is particularly important because I have shortcut for sharing a web page with my wife. If I use Siri, it doesn't get the URL because Siri is in the foreground and no URL is obtained. But it works fine as a Share sheet object.

Can you only look at your widgets from the springboard?

You can do exactly that... you can add shortcuts to the ‘Today’ view, and to the home screen.

Ok, I must be doing something wrong as I keep getting a popup telling me to enable Siri.

Edit: Ok apparently it was just the shortcut I was trying. I tried another and am able to add to home screen w/out Siri being enabled.

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