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Ride Assist

Ride Assist settings handle the mechanical parts of managing a ride recording — pausing, resuming, and starting — so you do not have to think about them while cycling.

Ride Assist settings — Auto-Pause, Wait for Movement, Unpause Reminder, and Live Activity

Auto-Pause

Auto-Pause detects when you stop moving and automatically pauses the ride recording. When you start moving again, it resumes. This keeps your ride data clean by excluding time spent at traffic lights, stop signs, or quick breaks.

Without Auto-Pause, stopped time inflates your elapsed time and drags down your average speed. For riders who care about accurate moving averages, this is the most important setting on this screen.

Sensitivity controls how quickly Auto-Pause engages. A higher sensitivity pauses sooner when you slow down, which works well for stop-and-go city riding. A lower sensitivity waits longer before pausing, which is better for rides where you frequently slow to a crawl but do not fully stop — like technical trails or group rides where you soft-pedal through turns.

Wait for Movement

When enabled, Wait for Movement delays the start of your ride recording until you reach a minimum speed threshold. This solves a common annoyance: you tap "Start Ride" while still clipping in, adjusting your gloves, or waiting for a gap in traffic, and the first 30 seconds of your ride show zero speed.

With Wait for Movement on, the timer and all metrics begin only when you start rolling. Your ride data starts clean without idle time at the beginning.

Unpause Reminder

If you manually pause a ride and then start riding again without resuming, the Unpause Reminder alerts you after a configurable delay. This catches the situation where you pause at a cafe stop, get back on the bike, and ride for ten minutes before realizing nothing was being recorded.

The reminder triggers only after manual pauses, not auto-pauses. If you use Auto-Pause, that system handles resuming on its own. The Unpause Reminder is specifically for times when you deliberately paused and then forgot to tap resume.

You can adjust the delay to control how long the app waits before alerting you. A shorter delay catches the mistake faster. A longer delay avoids false alerts if you tend to coast briefly after a stop before fully committing to riding again.

Live Activity

Live Activity displays your ride metrics on the iPhone Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while a ride is in progress. This gives you a quick glance at key stats — like elapsed time, distance, and speed — without unlocking your phone or switching to the Bike IQ app.

Live Activity is useful when your phone is mounted on the handlebars but the screen has timed out, or when you are using another app mid-ride and want ride data visible at a glance. Disable it if you find the persistent notification distracting or if you always keep the Bike IQ app in the foreground.

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