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How to navigate and use Circuit offline

How to use Circuit with your navigation app of choice and in offline mode

Chloe Ammonds-Nutt avatar
Written by Chloe Ammonds-Nutt
Updated over 3 months ago

How to navigate your delivery route

Various navigation apps are compatible with Circuit, so you can use the one you prefer.

If you have a paid subscription to Circuit Route Planner Standard, you can select Circuit Internal Navigation which is powered by Google Maps This lets you follow your route and mark off deliveries all in the same app.

  • Tap > Start

  • Your first stop will be highlighted

  • Tap > Navigate

  • In-app navigation will launch using Google Maps

  • Tap > Exit to stop navigation

Click here to learn how to change your navigation settings

If you do not want to use Google Maps for navigation or have the free version of Circuit Route Planner, you will not be able to use Circuit's Internal Navigation so in order to avoid switching between Circuit and your navigation app, instead, you can use:

On Android the navigation bubble

  • Tap > Navigation mode bubble to on

On iOS the dynamic Island

  • Open your iOS device settings to enable Live Activities

  • Go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode and enter your passcode

  • Set Live Activities to > On

  • Open Circuit Route Planner and start a route

  • Then minimize the app to go from full screen to dynamic island view

With these features enabled, Circuit Route Planner appears in the navigation bubble/dynamic island, and your chosen navigation app appears on your phone screen.


How to use Circuit in offline mode if you can't connect to the internet

If you use Google Maps or Apple Maps you can download an offline copy of your delivery area map so that you can use Circuit in areas with unreliable/no internet coverage.

Whilst connected to the internet you will need to:

  • Create and optimize your route

  • Download your delivery area map

  • Click here to download your delivery area map from Google Maps

  • Click here to download your delivery area map from Apple Maps

  • Once you've completed the above steps you'll be able to start your route and use navigation as normal even when you're without an internet connection


Read next...

Click here to read how to make changes to a live route


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