OnPace
Late or Early at Every Stop
Know at every checkpoint whether you are ahead of your plan or behind it
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How late, checkpoint by checkpoint
Set the times you pass a few points on the way: leaving home, the corner, the bus stop, the office. While you move, OnPace compares where you are with where the plan says you should be and shows the gap in minutes and seconds, in large type. It does not give directions. It tells you whether to hurry. When you walk toward a checkpoint set to Early is fine, or a stop where your ride leaves, one line says whether you will make it at your current pace, from Plenty of time to You may miss it. Once you have a few trips, the arrival estimate for the next checkpoint follows how long each leg took on similar weekdays and departure times.
- Minutes and seconds ahead of or behind plan
- The next checkpoint and the time to pass it
- Estimated arrival
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Routes from the map, or from one trip
Choose a departure and a destination and Apple Maps finds a walking or driving route, with checkpoints filled in along longer stretches. For a route no map can find, like a company shuttle, take it once and build the route from the trip. The places you stopped and where you got on and off become checkpoint candidates. A checkpoint you don't name yourself is named after a nearby station or street. Legs you ride by bus or subway are set apart.
- Walking and driving routes
- A route built from a trip you take
- A window of its own at each checkpoint
- Bus and subway legs
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Without taking out your phone
When it is time to leave, the departure reminder you turned on for the route goes off, and tapping it starts that route. During a trip the Lock Screen card and the Dynamic Island show the gap and the next checkpoint. The Apple Watch Smart Stack and CarPlay show it too, on a small card. Fall behind and a sound plays at each minute late, up to five, with one note for each minute, so you can tell how late you are by ear. Running early stays silent. When you open the app, or start from Control Center or Siri without naming a route, OnPace picks the route for the time of day, and the trip stops on its own two minutes after you arrive.
- A departure reminder for each route
- Lock Screen card and Dynamic Island
- A sound for each minute late
- Start from Control Center or Siri
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Tuned from your trips
Each trip adds real times. Leg times count from when you actually left, and leaving late is counted separately. On a day you were late because you left late, OnPace says so instead of telling you to leave earlier. It looks at the median of your recent trips, suggests moving a checkpoint you always reach late or loosening a leg that is too tight, names each one by its pin number, and points out legs that take longer on certain weekdays or departure times. Your last trip on the home screen shows how late you left and how long the trip took. When a trip took longer than planned even though you left on time, moving your departure earlier from that single trip is open to everyone.
- The median of recent trips
- Checkpoints reached late
- Legs that are too tight
- Weekdays and departure times
OnPace Pro
Routes without a limit,
times tuned from your trips, days for each route
- Routes without a limit (two to begin with)
- Tune from trips: apply the suggestions to your checkpoint times
- Days for each route: departure reminders and the automatic pick follow them
Support
Questions and contact details are on the support page.