My Location helps you turn a position on a map into something useful: a saved place, a recorded journey, a shared meeting point, or a temporary live share. It is available for iPhone and Android, with free features and optional Pro upgrades.
This is a short tour of the main workflows. For the full feature comparison and examples, read the current My Location app guide, available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
Find where you are and save the place
Open the map to see your device’s estimated position and coordinates, with an address where one can be resolved. Accuracy depends on the device, permissions, and surroundings. Search for another place or choose a point manually when the location you want to save is elsewhere.
Save that point with a name and notes, add it to a collection, and mark useful favorites. A parking spot can carry a note about the entrance; a trip collection can hold accommodation, viewpoints, and meeting places. Widgets provide shortcuts to saved places and saving a location, with behavior that varies by platform.
Record a walk, run, ride, or hike
Start a GPS recording, pause or resume it when needed, then finish and name the track. The detail screen shows a route map and available statistics such as distance, time, speed or pace, and elevation information. Sensor quality and missing points affect these estimates.
You can export a recorded track as GPX. Importing GPX tracks is a separate Pro feature. Animated route replay is available on iPhone and adds another way to revisit a recording.
Choose what to share
My Location has several sharing jobs, and they should not be confused:
- A place: send a selected destination.
- A shared-map snapshot: send chosen saved places together. Later edits to your original collection do not automatically change the snapshot.
- A finished route: create a separate route link after signing in, or export the GPX file.
- A live position: start a timed session for friends or anyone with the follow link. A viewer sees the current shared point, not the entire recorded track.
Recipients can forward links, so select places and included notes carefully. You can delete a shared-map or route link to stop future access, and stop an active live session. Neither action removes copies a recipient already saved.
Friends and arrival or departure alerts
Sign in to add and manage friends, choose per-friend live sharing, and view friends who are currently sharing with you. Place alerts let you request an arrival or departure notification for a selected location. Your friend must approve, and the alert only works while that friend actively shares live location with you.
Use the same account across app and web
Signing in supports syncing account content such as places, collections, and tracks. Routes drawn on mylocation.app can appear in both mobile apps for viewing and GPX export; route drawing and editing happen on the website.
The web toolbox also provides DMS-to-decimal conversion, decimal-to-DMS conversion, and coordinate-to-address lookup. These browser tools complement the native app. Do not assume that every specialist web converter, such as UTM or MGRS, is also a native app screen.
Understand the platform differences
| Feature | iPhone | Android |
|---|---|---|
| Directions | Driving and walking route previews with native voice navigation | Directions and navigation handoff to supported map apps |
| Map options | Standard, hybrid, and satellite views | Standard, terrain, satellite, and hybrid views |
| Active sharing visibility | Live Activity on supported lock-screen and Dynamic Island interfaces | Active-sharing controls in the Android app |
| Advertising | No in-app ads | The free app has ads; Pro removes them |
What Pro adds
Pro includes unlimited collections, saved-place import and export in GPX, KML, and GeoJSON, GPX track import, live sharing from the recording screen, and longer eligible live sessions. Saved-place file transfer and recorded-track GPX export are different features: the latter does not require Pro in the current apps.
Free native live-sharing durations include 30 minutes, one hour, and four hours. Guest sessions have a four-hour cap; signed-in Pro sessions are capped at 24 hours, including “Until I Stop.” Store plans, prices, and eligibility appear at purchase. An iPhone Pro purchase does not automatically activate Android or web Pro.
Start with one useful task
Install My Location, allow location access when you want to locate yourself, and save a place you will need again. Then try the workflow that matters to you: organize trip stops, record a route, or start a short live share with someone you trust. For a quick browser-only lookup, use the current-location map.
