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Audio Alerts

Audio Alerts give you audible confirmation when ride events happen, so you know your ride state changed without taking your eyes off the road.

Audio alerts for ride events — start, pause, resume, and end sounds

Why Audio Feedback Matters

When you are riding, your eyes should be on the road. A short sound confirming that your ride paused, resumed, or ended is faster and safer than glancing at your screen to verify. Audio alerts close the feedback loop — you hear the confirmation and keep riding.

This is especially important for auto-pause and auto-resume events. Without an audible cue, you might not realize Auto-Pause kicked in at a stoplight or resumed when you started moving. The sound tells you the app is doing its job.

Available Alerts

Each ride event has its own toggle, so you can enable exactly the alerts you want and silence the rest:

  • Start — plays when you begin a new ride. Confirms the recording is active.
  • Resume — plays when you manually resume a paused ride. Lets you know the timer is running again.
  • Auto-Resume — plays when Auto-Pause detects movement and resumes recording on its own. This is the alert most riders find essential, because the resume happens without any user action.
  • Pause — plays when you manually pause the ride. Confirms the recording stopped.
  • Auto-Pause — plays when the app detects you have stopped and pauses automatically. Useful at traffic lights so you know the clock is no longer running.
  • Ride Ended — plays when you finish and end the ride. A clear signal that recording has stopped and the ride is complete.

Speaker Behavior

Audio alerts play through the iPhone speaker even when headphones are connected. This is intentional — the alerts are short confirmation sounds, and routing them to the speaker ensures you hear them regardless of your audio setup. Your music or podcast playing through headphones is not interrupted.

If your phone volume is low, the alerts may be hard to hear over wind and traffic noise. Make sure your phone volume is set high enough to be audible at riding speed.

Choosing Which Alerts to Enable

Most riders enable all alerts initially and then turn off the ones they find unnecessary. A good starting point: keep Auto-Resume and Auto-Pause enabled, since those events happen without your input and the audio confirmation is genuinely useful. The Start and Pause alerts are less critical because you triggered those actions yourself and already know they happened.

If you ride in quiet neighborhoods or on peaceful trails, you may prefer fewer sounds. If you ride in noisy urban environments, more alerts help you stay aware of your ride state without checking the screen.

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