Live Tracking: Share your live location

Live Tracking is a komoot Premium feature that lets you share your real-time location with trusted contacts while you're on a route. Once activated, your safety contacts receive a link to follow along your activity, and you gain peace of mind knowing that your route progress is visible to others.

Note: An active internet connection is required for Live Tracking to work. Need to update your safety contacts? Learn how here.

How to turn Live Tracking on and off

Tap Profile .
Go to Settings .
Select Live Tracking.
Toggle the slider to turn it ON.

Once Live Tracking is turned on:

Your safety contacts automatically receive a link to track your route when you begin an activity.
You can manually share the link with anyone using the share button, even if they don't have a komoot account.
The Live Tracking icon () turns blue to indicate it is active.

What information is shared?

When someone has your Live Tracking link, they can see:

Your location, updated every 20 seconds by default or every 5 seconds if someone is actively viewing the Live Tracking link.
Your route status, including active, paused or finished.
Your estimated arrival time and the duration of your activity.
The distance you have covered and the remaining distance.
Your phone’s battery percentage.
GPS data, including the last update time.
The elevation profile of your route.

How long does Live Tracking stay active?

Live Tracking remains active for the entire duration of your route.
It turns off automatically when you finish the activity.
The Live Tracking link remains available for 28 days and will show the last position where your activity ended.
After 28 days, the link expires, and all tracking data is deleted.

Live Tracking and privacy zones

If you have set up a privacy zone, your location remains visible within that zone while Live Tracking is active.

Battery usage with Live Tracking

Live Tracking increases battery consumption by approximately 1% per hour compared to using komoot without Live Tracking. The biggest battery drain is the screen display.

Want to optimize battery life? Check out this guide on battery-saving tips.

Live Tracking on Garmin devices

Live Tracking is available for komoot Premium users via the komoot app for Garmin. Further details and tips can be found here.

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