WalkAwareA little help for your next walk.
Getting started, understanding updates, and finding more about the places around you.
Get in touch
For support or privacy questions, email support@walkaware.app.
Include your app version, Watch model, watchOS version and what happened. An approximate area is optional. Never send passwords, payment details or a precise route history.
Start exploring
- Open WalkAware on an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later.
- Allow location access and keep a network connection available for new discoveries.
- Scroll the nearest-place card for distance and an optional description.
- Add WalkAware / Nearest Place to a compatible watch face for a quick glance.
Common questions
How often does it update?
Automatic discovery is eligible every minute while recent movement is detected, or every three minutes otherwise. watchOS controls background execution and complication refreshes, so these are targets, not guaranteed update intervals. Tap Update Nearest in the app for a manual search.
Why does it show a saved or old distance?
If a fresh location is unavailable, WalkAware keeps the last measured distance instead of inventing a new one. Saved or last-known labels indicate a failed refresh; old marks a measurement at least five minutes old. Check location permission, open the app outdoors and try Update Nearest.
Why is a landmark missing?
Results depend on Apple Maps candidates and regional coverage. Searches expand through logical 50-metre bands to five kilometres and select the nearest occupied band. This is not a complete catalogue. Distances are straight-line measurements, not walking routes.
How do I read the full article on my iPhone?
In Sources, choose Wikipedia article, then tap Continue on iPhone. Keep that screen open on your Watch. On your iPhone, swipe up from the bottom and pause to open the App Switcher, then tap the Handoff banner at the bottom.
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Handoff must be enabled. Check Handoff in iPhone Settings → General → AirPlay & Continuity, and Enable Handoff in the Watch app → General. Devices must use the same Apple Account. Handoff can also offer the article on your Mac. It does not automatically launch your phone browser. The full address remains readable if Handoff is unavailable.
Why is there no description or photograph?
Descriptions appear only when a Wikipedia article can be reliably matched. They are not available for every place. WalkAware uses category icons and does not fetch or display place photographs.
How do arrival alerts work?
Enable optional alerts in Alerts & Details and allow notifications. Alerts target entry within roughly 200 metres of a discovered place. Focus settings, location accuracy and system scheduling can affect delivery. Turning alerts off cancels pending alerts.
Wikipedia text and attribution
Optional article excerpts are by Wikipedia contributors and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Introductions may be shortened and spacing simplified; those text adaptations use the same licence. The app’s separate licence does not restrict your rights to reuse this text under CC BY-SA.
Each in-app Sources screen identifies its article, revision, contributor history, licence and changes. This website’s product screenshots contain no Wikipedia article prose or place photographs. WalkAware is not endorsed by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.