Apple Watch

If you have an Apple Watch, you can also install myTracks on the Apple Watch. After starting, you will find a button to start a new recording. Before you start, you must choose whether to record on the iPhone or on the Apple Watch.

If you record on the Apple Watch, then the GPS chip of the Apple Watch is used for recording. During the recording, no pairing with the iPhone is necessary. You can move around without the iPhone with the Apple Watch. When the recording on the Apple Watch has finished, the recorded track is then synchronized with myTracks on the iPhone. The next time you start myTracks on the iPhone, the GPS track will appear in the track library on the iPhone after a short while. When iCloud Sync is active, the track syncs to iCloud. The Apple Watch can not synchronize the GPS track directly with iCloud.

When a recording is active, a new page will appear on the Apple Watch showing the most important data of the current recording. If you record directly with the Apple Watch, then there are two more pages. These show the speed and height profile.

If the diary mode is active on the iPhone, then a separate page is also displayed for this.

On the Apple Watch there are also complications for myTracks. Depending on the selected area for the complication, different information is displayed. If a major complication for myTracks is chosen, then both the time and the length of the current recording will be displayed. The values ​​displayed there always refer to the recording that runs directly on the Apple Watch. An iPhone recording can not be shown there for technical reasons.

To stop recording, you must force touch the watch. Then a menu will appear to end the recording. In this menu you can also add a waypoint to the current recording.