Actually as I'm reading more... I realize what I'm missing here, no shorting necessary right? Just set GPIO2 and GPIO3 as outputs and control them accordingly? Pretty sure this will work just fine..

So just realized I didn't dig deep enough in the manual to see that the haptic motor and audio amplifier are enabled using the GPIO pins. Side note... seems like an asterisk could be added to the pinouts in the datasheets to make this more clear ahead of time. Since my board is already spun, and I'm...