Customize your Ride with GPS experience by adjusting general settings, app notifications, logging options, and photo preferences.
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Download the Ride with GPS mobile app
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Offline Mode is a handy option to help you find your way or record your ride without using cell phone data. Unlock offline maps for navigation with a Premium or Basic membership.
Settings
Settings Options
Account Settings
Changing your account settings in the app will also update settings on the website.
- Update Profile: Change your username, account email & password, and profile details.
- Set Home Location: Tap a location on the map to set your default starting point or home location. Tap Save in the upper right corner to finalize.
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Privacy:
- Specify the default privacy for all newly saved rides as Public, Friends Only, or Private.
- Choose your profile visibility settings or privatize it how you’d like. Learn more about Profile Privacy Settings.
- Enable or disable sharing of analytics to help improve Ride with GPS.
- Delete Account: Allows you to remove your account entirely from Ride with GPS. Use with caution!
- Default Gear (Android only): Set the primary bike or gear item that is selected by default when a ride is saved. *Note: iOS users can change this setting in your account preferences on the website.
Notifications
Push Notifications
- Comments: Receive an alert on your phone when someone comments on one of your rides, routes, or photos.
- Segment Personal Records: Get an alert when you set a new record on a segment.
- New Followers: Get a notification when you get a new follower on Ride with GPS.
- New Rides Synced: Get an alert when a ride from a different platform syncs to Ride with GPS successfully.
Email Notifications
Select which email communications you would like to receive from Ride with GPS.
- Direct Messages: Get notified you when another RWGPS account messages you.
- New Comments: Get an email notification when a comment is left on one of your rides, photos, or routes.
- Segment Personal Records: Get notified when you achieve a personal record on a segment.
- New Followers: Get an email notification when you get a new follower on Ride with GPS.
- Goal and Challenge Updates: Get updates on any goals or challenges you're participating in.
- Monthly Summary: Get an email with your monthly ride statistics.
- Route Review Requests: Get an email when you have a new route to review, based on your past ride history.
- New Route Reviews: Get an email when one of your routes has been reviewed.
- Ride with GPS Updates: Get information on new features, promotions, and other updates from the Ride with GPS team.
Logging Settings
- Logging Interval: Set the frequency at which the app will record GPS data, from 1 - 10 seconds.
- Metrics Settings: Configure what information is displayed on the recording screen.
- Auto-Pause: Configure Auto-Pause, which allows the app to automatically pause the ride recording when you have stopped.
- Poor GPS warning: (Android only) Toggle if you want to receive an audio notification if your device has lost a GPS lock.
Interval Alerts
- Enabled: Toggle on or off interval alerts. Interval alerts notify you at regular intervals of the metrics you choose while you ride.
- Tone: Choose to play a tone at the chosen interval, along with the selected metric announcement.
- Type: Configure your alerts based on Distance or Time intervals.
- Interval Spacing: This determines how often you get the selected notifications.
- Announcement Content: This allows you to choose the specific metrics you wish to hear for the whole ride, per interval, or both.
Photos
- Upload Photos Over Wi-Fi Only: This allows photos to upload only when connected to Wi-Fi. This helps avoid slow uploads and cell data overage charges.
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Upload Size: This allows you to set the photo quality and size of the upload. The app defaults to HIGH. The maximum width of each setting is High = 3072 (default), Medium = 2048, Low = 1024
- Note: Uploading full-sized photos will use more network data. You may want to use Only Upload Over WiFi with the High setting selected.
- Find Photos Taken Outside of App (Android Only)
Learn more about photo settings and adding photos to a ride or route via the app.
Saving
- Replace elevations: Choose to automatically use elevation data from the map source rather than the elevation recorded by your phone's GPS hardware. This is useful for older phones, or in areas with high trees or buildings that could diminish GPS signal.
- Publish rides to Health app (iPhone only): This option allows you to sync the distance and duration of your rides to the Apple Health app. Only new rides recorded by the Ride with GPS app will get synced to the Apple Health app. This does not retroactively sync your ride history nor rides recorded by other devices.
- Publish new rides to Google Fit (Android only): This option allows you to sync duration and distance to Google Fit. Only new rides recorded by the Ride with GPS app will get synced to the Google Fit app. This does not retroactively sync your ride history nor rides recorded by other devices.
Navigation Settings
Check out our Voice Navigation help page for more information about managing these settings.
Live Logging Settings
- Enable Live Logging on Every Ride to automatically start Live Logging for each ride.
- Live Logging Interval: This option allows you to set the amount of time between updates to your Live Log on the website.
- Live photo syncing: This option allows you to upload photos while Live Logging via cell network, even if “Upload Over WiFi Only” is enabled.
- Speak Comments (Android only): When enabled, comments on Live Logged ride will be spoken by the app.
Set Up Bluetooth Devices
- Enable Bluetooth (Android only): Toggle this to turn on Bluetooth in the app. Note: this will not turn Bluetooth on in the phone’s system settings, nor will it grant Bluetooth permission to the app. You'll need to enable these separately within your phone settings.
- Set up Bluetooth devices: This option allows you to view your paired and nearby bluetooth devices. Tap the device name to pair and save it. Check out our Bluetooth Sensors help page for more information.
- Set up Varia Radar: Here you can pair a Bluetooth capable Garmin Varia device to see approaching vehicles.
- Set Up Apple Watch (iPhone only): Use this option to pair your Apple Watch.
Enable Use Metric Units
Enabling Metric Units will default everything to the Metric System. When it is disabled, Imperial Units will be used.
Enable Offline Mode
- When Offline Mode is enabled, the app will not use any cell or wifi data.
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