Safety Tracking lets someone follow your ride live from their phone until you are back safe. Equilab shares your position and information about your ride, so if something happens you, those that follow you will know exactly where you are.
Get started
To setup Safety Tracking you go into the safety tracking tab, accessible from the start view or in settings. The first thing you have to do is to turn on the Safety Tracking, this will turn the safety tracking symbol orange in the start screen as well.
In the safety tracking view you can choose between two different ways of sharing your ride:
Safety Contacts
This requires you to be friends with the other users in the app. Read here on how to become friends "Add your friends in the app To mark them as safety contacts you you go into the safety tracking view and see if the switch is turned on to the right side of their name . If they are they will thereafter get a notification each time you start/stop a ride and be able to access your trainings live from the friends tab.
Safety Tracking Links
When Safety Tracking is turned on a link button will pop up on the right side of the safety tracking button in the start view. By pressing this you will given a link that you can share through your favorite communication app. When your friends press this link they will be able to follow your ride through any web browser. If you want a reminder to send them a link before you start riding you can enable this in the bottom of the safety tracking screen as well.