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User guide Create a route

Create a route

On iPhone, with every option; on your watch, right from the start screen, without pulling out your iPhone. Either way: three options that keep you off busy roads.

Where iPhone › Routes, or watch › start screen

Add a route

Add a route: create, import a file, Strava, one of your runs, another app

Routes tab, then Add a route.

  1. Create a route

    A loop at the distance you want, or a route you draw.

  2. Import a file

    GPX, TCX or FIT, from Files.

  3. From Strava

    Your Strava routes.

  4. From one of my runs

    Run a past track again.

  5. From another app

    Share button › Stamio, or "Open with Stamio."

On iPhone: three options

Creating a route on iPhone: three loops, their rundown, Keep this route

Further down the screen: distance, surface, elevation, start and direction.

  1. Four ways

    Loop, out & back, draw, or waypoints.

  2. The map

    Your options and which way they run.

  3. Three options

    Distance, elevation gain and share of trails; a warning sign if there are busy roads.

  4. The rundown

    Trails, quiet streets, busy roads and crossings. Tap it for details and Report a spot.

  5. Keep this route

    Keep one, two or all three. 3 more looks in other directions.

On your watch: settings

Creating a route on Apple Watch: 5 miles, Loop, Any, Create 3 routes
  1. Open the start screen for a run, trail run, walk or hike.
  2. Tap the route line ("No route").
  3. Tap Create a route.
  1. Distance

    With the Digital Crown, or − and +, from 2 to 9 miles.

  2. Loop or out & back
  3. Flat or any terrain

    For a pace workout from your plan, Stamio automatically goes for the flattest option with the fewest road crossings.

  4. Create 3 routes

    You start right where you are.

On your watch: pick one

An option on Apple Watch: map, 5.0 mi, 135 ft gain, no busy roads, Follow this route

Turn the Digital Crown to go from one option to the next. The last page offers 3 more and Change settings.

  1. The map

    The route, its direction, and road crossings in red.

  2. Enlarge

    Full screen: zoom with the Digital Crown, pan with your finger, elevation profile.

  3. Distance and gain
  4. Terrain

    Share of trails and waterside, any busy roads.

  5. Follow this route

    Sets it for your run; then head out with Start or the Action button.

Tip With your iPhone nearby, it does the math. Without it, your watch handles it on its own over Wi-Fi or cellular; right downtown in a big city, keep your iPhone with you.

After that

The route you follow is added to your routes on iPhone, and the map around it goes to your watch.

Creating and previewing routes is free. Your first saved route is on us; after that, it's Stamio Pro.

See also: The route builder, in detail, Offline maps and navigation.