Recording a walk, a run or a bike ride

Before the first outing

In Settings, set the Recording mode to Detailed, otherwise the trip button records no track. For a faithful track on a running or cycling route, set the Recording detail to Balanced or High; Battery saver is enough for a walk. Location “Always” lets the recording carry on with the screen off or the app in the background.

1. Starting the session

On the map, tap Start trip. The “Start a trip” sheet opens:

• The mode: Running, On foot, By bike, By car, or Auto to let Fenzly recognise the mode of movement along the way. Other offers the modes Fenzly never detects by itself: bus, train, motorcycle, boat, plane, cable car, ski. You can correct the mode during or after.
• Auto-stop, off by default: turned on, the session closes by itself after a while standing still, handy if you forget to stop it on arrival. Leave it off for a session with breaks. By plane, boat, cable car or ski it stays off: the phone looks still, so you stop the recording yourself.

Tap Start the trip. “Acquiring GPS…” shows until the first fix; outdoors, a few seconds are enough.

If you want someone close to follow you during the outing, start a live share from the map as well (guide Sharing my position live).

2. During the session

The trip screen shows:

• at the top of the sheet, the transport mode, corrected in one gesture with Change if Fenzly got it wrong;
• the distance, the elapsed time and the instant speed in km/h; pull the sheet up for the heading, the average speed, the elevation and the altitude;
• the map with your track, North up or Direction up, and Follow my position to recentre.

For a group outing, the members of your circles who are moving appear on the map, and a rail along the left edge places each one ahead of or behind you, with their distance. The Show members button hides them or brings them back. Nobody outside your circles sees those positions.

You can leave the screen, the recording carries on; the Trip recording button on the map brings you back.

3. Finishing

Tap Stop and confirm: the session is recorded. With auto-stop on, it ends by itself once you stand still.

4. Reviewing the session

When you stop the trip, the session’s page opens. It gathers the route on the map, duration, distance, average and maximum speed, and the elevation profile with the climb, estimated from GPS. You find it again later from your timeline or the History tab. Three useful actions:

• Rename, the pencil at the top: “Long run”, “Lake loop”.
• Trip category: Leisure, Sport, Work, Travel, or a category you create, “Intervals” or “Club ride”.
• Export GPX, the share button at the top: the track file, to open in any mapping or training app.

5. Finding all your outings

The History tab → Trips gives, per week, month or year, the number of trips and the total distance, then the list of outings day by day. The filter chips isolate a category, a transport mode, or both: the month’s cycling kilometres, the year’s runs. Each outing opens on its card. The depth of the history is a setting, everything is kept by default (guide Reading my history).

What stays private

Sessions live on your phone. They are shared only with the circles where you chose “Everything”, in a plain form, and in detail only if you turn on “Detailed trips” for that circle. No server knows your routes, your speeds or the times you go out.