Visits, routes & battery

Two kinds of history

iso.me records visits (places you arrive at and depart from — automatic) and routes (continuous GPS paths — recorded while tracking is on). Both run from a single Start button.

Starting and stopping

• Map pill — the floating control on the Map tab shows live duration and distance while recording.
• Live Activity — lock screen and Dynamic Island show progress and include a Stop button.
• Siri / Shortcuts — “Start iso.me” and “Stop tracking with iso.me” phrases work hands-free.
• Auto-stop timer — optional safety net that ends tracking automatically.

Tracking state survives relaunches: if iso.me was recording when you last used your phone, it resumes when you open it again. If iOS relaunches the app in the background for a location event, recording continues without you touching anything.

Visit detection

Visits use iOS visit monitoring plus significant-location-change triggers. When you arrive somewhere, iso.me creates a visit; when you leave, it closes it. Behind the scenes iso.me also merges duplicate detections of the same stop (within roughly 100 meters and half an hour) and closes any visit left open when a new arrival makes it clearly stale — so you don't accumulate phantom “current” pins.

New visits are reverse-geocoded to a name and address automatically, unless you've turned Settings → Location tracking → Location names off (this toggle controls whether coordinates are sent to Apple's geocoding service).

Route recording quality

• Only fixes with reported accuracy of 100 m or better are saved; wilder fixes are dropped.
• Obvious glitches — impossible jumps and out-and-back spikes — are flagged as GPS glitches and excluded from distances and maps by default. Enable Settings → Map display → Show GPS glitches to see them.

Tracking settings reference