Milepost — Support

Milepost records your runs and walks with GPS: time, pace, distance, splits, and the route on a map. Everything stays on your phone. If something isn't working, you're in the right place.

How do I record a run?

Open the app, press Start, and allow location access when iOS asks. The full-screen recorder shows the clock, your current split pace, and distance. Press Pause to stop the clock; from there, Resume to keep going or Finish to save. Give the run a title and tap Save.

Does it keep recording with the screen off?

Yes. Lock the phone or switch apps and the run keeps going until you press Finish. The blue location indicator in the status bar means Milepost is still recording.

Why did it say "No Movement Detected"?

The run covered less than about 10 metres, so there was nothing worth saving. Tap Resume to keep going or Discard to throw it away. This also happens if location access was denied: check Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Milepost and choose "While Using the App".

Distance or pace looks wrong

GPS needs open sky. The first few hundred metres after a cold start, or a route under tall buildings and trees, can read short or jumpy. Milepost ignores fixes with poor accuracy and treats very slow movement as standing still, so a run that starts indoors will show distance only once you are outside and moving.

Miles or kilometres?

You → Units. Splits are stored in the unit the run was recorded with, so old runs keep their original splits.

Voice cues

You → Settings → Voice cues: off, every mile, or every half mile (every kilometre / half kilometre in metric). The cue reads your time and last split pace and ducks any music that is playing. Preview voice lets you hear it before a run.

Apple Watch

Install Milepost on your watch from the Watch app on your iPhone. Pick a sport on the watch and tap it to start: the watch records your heart rate and calories along with distance, pace and splits, and keeps going with your wrist down. Swipe up for the controls, down for your splits. When you finish, the workout is saved to Apple Health on the spot and the activity is queued for your iPhone — it arrives the next time the two are in range, even if you were nowhere near your phone.

While the watch is recording, your iPhone shows the run on the Record tab with live distance, pace and heart rate, and can pause or end it from there.

Apple Health

You → Apple Health. It is off until you turn it on. Once on, every activity you save becomes a workout in Health, with your splits as laps and an estimated calorie burn, so it counts toward your rings and any other fitness app can read it. Heart rate and other metrics your Apple Watch recorded during the activity then show up on the activity too.

Your route is a separate switch and it starts off. Turn it on only if you want Health to draw the map of where you went. Either way it stays on your device. Deleting a run in Milepost deletes the workout Milepost wrote for it.

If the switch is on but nothing appears in Health, check Health → Sharing → Apps → Milepost and make sure Workouts is allowed.

How do I delete a run?

Open the run from Activities, tap the menu in the top corner, then Delete. Deleting the app removes everything.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

Your routes, never. Recording needs no account and runs live in a database on your phone. If you sign in for friends, only each activity's sport, title, distance, pace and time are shared, and only with friends you accept. Nothing from Apple Health or your Apple Watch — heart rate, calories, weight — is ever uploaded or shared with friends. Turn sharing off or delete your account from the You tab. See the privacy policy.