Track walks on a map, with Apple Watch, Wear OS and Apple Health

You're out the door with the leash in your hand, and later someone asks how long you were out and how far you went. Doggy Time can answer that. Open your pet, tap Walk, turn on Enable GPS Tracking and tap play. While you walk, the time, the distance and a live map show in the app, and the time and distance stay on your lock screen on an iPhone, or in a notification on Android. When you get home, pause the walk and tap the check: the start, the end and the distance are filled in, and the walk shows its route on a map, from Start to End, for everyone who shares your pet.

You can also leave your phone in your pocket, or at home. Open Doggy Time on your Apple Watch or your Wear OS watch, tap your pet, then Walk, and the watch records the time, the distance and the route with its own GPS. The walk shows up in Doggy Time on your phone, with its map, like any other walk.

If you use Apple Health, the walks you record on your Apple Watch are saved there too, as walking workouts with their route. They count toward your own activity, and the walk stays in Doggy Time for your pet.

Walk distances are also more accurate now. The distance is measured along the route drawn on the map, so the number and the map always agree. Walks you recorded on your phone since early October are corrected the next time Doggy Time syncs, unless you typed in the distance yourself. To start a walk faster, touch and hold the Doggy Time icon and tap Start a walk for your pet, and if you walked more than one pet, choose them under With other pets? before you save.

Tracking a walk on your phone is free: a walk uses one of your timers, the free plan includes 10, and after that you can still add a walk by entering it yourself. Premium gives you unlimited timers and the Apple Watch and Wear OS apps. See How to track a walk on a map, How to track a walk with your Apple Watch and How to track a walk with your Wear OS watch for every step.