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Velocita requires iPhone running iOS 26 or later. GPS is required — the app won't work on devices without a GPS radio (such as Wi-Fi-only iPads). A barometer gives you the best altitude accuracy; if your device doesn't have one, Velocita falls back to GPS altitude automatically.

So tracking keeps running when your phone is locked or you switch to another app during a trip. Without "Always," iOS would pause location updates the moment you leave the app, and speed, distance, and the Live Activity would all stop.

Nothing is uploaded. Every measurement stays on your device. You can revoke "Always" at any time in Settings → Velocita.

Two reasons, both on-device:

• Barometer altitude. Apple requires the Motion & Fitness permission to read the barometer. Velocita uses it to fuse barometric pressure with GPS for altitude accurate to about one meter — versus ±10–30 meters for GPS alone.
• Stationary detection. When Core Motion classifies your device as stationary, Velocita snaps the speed display to zero immediately. This sidesteps Apple's GPS smoothing tail, which otherwise keeps the reading elevated for 20+ seconds after you actually stop.

Velocita does not track steps, workouts, routes, or any motion history.

That means your GPS signal quality is currently Poor or Fair and the reading may not be trustworthy. Velocita dims it and prefixes it with a tilde so you can tell at a glance. This usually happens in tunnels, parking garages, urban canyons, or immediately after launch before the radio has a good fix.

Minimum, maximum, and average speeds are only recorded when GPS accuracy is at least Fair. Once you're back in the open, the indicator will clear and readings will be full-brightness again.

Probably not — Apple's CLLocation.speed is heavily smoothed, and under Poor GPS it can hold an elevated reading for up to 20 seconds after you've actually come to a stop. Velocita fights this in two ways: an asymmetric smoothing filter that snaps down fast, and a Core Motion stationary detector that forces the display to zero when your device knows it's not moving.

If you're seeing a persistent non-zero reading while genuinely stationary, check that you've granted Motion & Fitness access in Settings → Velocita → Motion & Fitness — without it, the stationary detector can't run.

Tap anywhere on the speed display. One tap toggles between the analog gauge and the big numeric readout. Your choice is remembered between launches.

Yes — all three. Tap the Settings gear and pick your preferred unit. Trip distance follows (miles, kilometers, or nautical miles) and altitude shows feet for mph/knots and meters for km/h. Velocita defaults to your locale on first launch.

Once you tap Start, Velocita posts a Live Activity to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island showing current speed, bearing, max, distance, and elapsed time. Lock your phone and it keeps updating — the activity is driven by a dedicated timer inside the tracking engine so it doesn't depend on the app being visible.

If you don't see the Live Activity appear, check Settings → Velocita → Live Activities is enabled, and that Live Activities are enabled system-wide in Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Allow Access When Locked → Live Activities.

Yes. GPS doesn't need cellular or Wi-Fi — it's a separate radio. Speed, distance, heading, altitude, and trip stats all work in airplane mode. The only feature that needs a network connection is reverse geocoding (the city name shown on screen). When that's unavailable, Velocita simply shows "offline" in place of the location name.

GPS and display-on during a trip do use energy — that's unavoidable for any speedometer. Velocita minimizes it with a few tricks:

• The signal monitor auto-shuts-off after 5 minutes of inactivity if you never tap Start.
• AMOLED black mode saves power on OLED iPhones during night driving.
• The app never keeps the screen awake unless you're actively tracking.

Most users see a few percent per hour of active tracking. Lock your phone and the Live Activity keeps running at a fraction of the cost of an always-on display.

Tap the bell icon, toggle Speed Alert on, and set your threshold using the scroll wheel. When you exceed it, Velocita flashes a red border and delivers a haptic buzz. You can also enable haptic speed ticks in Settings to get a light tap every 10 mph / km/h boundary you cross while tracking.

No. All location processing happens on your iPhone. Velocita never transmits your coordinates, route, speed, altitude, heading, or trip data to any server, advertiser, or data broker. The only off-device calls are Apple's reverse-geocoding (for the city name on screen) and anonymous, aggregate usage signals via TelemetryDeck — never raw values, never anything that could identify you.

See the full privacy policy for complete details, including how to opt out of the anonymous analytics.

Open Settings → Share Anonymous Usage Data inside the app and toggle it off. An acknowledgment signal is sent and the SDK is terminated immediately. No further signals are emitted on subsequent launches unless you re-enable the toggle.

Please email support@psyton.com with as much detail as you can: what you were doing, what you expected, and what actually happened. Include your iPhone model and iOS version if you can. We read every message.