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How automatic tracking works
You don’t press start — you just drive. This guide explains what’s happening underneath, so you can trust what ends up on your claim.
What happens when you drive
It notices you’ve set off
The app watches for the motion of driving rather than running GPS all day — so it starts a drive on its own, and that’s also why the battery cost is small.
It records in the background
Your screen can be off and the app closed — it keeps logging. If your phone restarts mid-day, it picks straight back up.
It tidies the ends
It detects when you’ve parked and walked away, and trims the walk to and from the car — so only the miles you actually drove go on your claim, nothing inflated.
It joins up a stop-over
Nip into a petrol station or drop something off mid-journey and it keeps it as one sensible trip, rather than chopping it in two.
It shows you the route
Each drive appears on a map so you can check it against reality. To draw the route accurately it snaps the path to the roads — more on what that means for your privacy below.
About the battery
Because GPS sleeps while you’re parked and only wakes when you drive, day-to-day battery use stays small — and the app shows you exactly how much it’s used, so you’re never guessing. (If a drive ever doesn’t capture, it’s almost always a phone battery setting — see Tracking isn’t working?)
About the map & your privacy
To draw your route accurately, a drive’s coordinates go to an open maps service — with no name and no account attached, never sold, and you can turn it off (your trips still record, just drawn as the raw GPS line). Everything else stays on your phone. The full picture is in Your privacy & your data.
The app is in development for iOS and Android — the illustrated version of this guide arrives at launch.
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