Route Planning
You can change non-route pin colors (default blue) and waypoint pin colors (default orange), in one of two ways:
1) Select the pin on the map, then select its name/ETA popup, and tap the pin icon on the details screen to pick a new color.
2) To change multiple pins at once, select the map’s Draw icon, draw around the pins, and use a “Set Color…” action to change their colors.
To delete a Favorite, you can swipe left on a row in your Favorites (on Mac, right-click), and then tap the “Delete” button that appears.
To organize your Favorites, tap the “Select” or “Edit” button from the top toolbar, enabling multiple selection and showing additional tools for organizing your Favorites. 4 additional icons appear on the top toolbar (trash, new folder, move to new folder, and a Globe for dropping selected items back to the map).
Additionally, while organizing your Favorites with the “Select” or “Edit” button on the top toolbar, an Info icon will appear next to each item in your Favorites, that when tapped allows you to rename an item.
There is a RV route type at the top of the “Route” screen. You will see three options: Driving (Car icon), RV Routing (Motorhome icon), and Walking (Pedestrian icon). Once RV Routing is selected, an “RV Route Profile” option will appear where you can input your RV’s description. Routes will then avoid known clearance/weight restrictions.
.XLSX files can be imported directly from within inRoute, sent as email attachments to your device and opened from Mail, or shared from your spreadsheet app (.XLSX is the native format for MS Excel and supported by Apple Numbers and Google Sheets as well). For example,
1) Within inRoute, tap the map’s More icon (on Mac, the File menu), then tap “Import”, and select the file from its location.
2) Or, email the file to yourself. In the iOS Mail app, tap and hold the attached file, tap “Share”, then from the second row of app icons select “inRoute” (this may be under the “More” button at the far right). On a Mac, drag and drop the file onto inRoute.
.XLSX files must include a header row at the top, and during import you will be prompted to choose the columns that contain addresses (street, city, etc.), then the columns that contain the name to use for each map pin (first name, last name, business, etc). The format is flexible so a single column list of addresses works as well. Each row of the file creates a pin on the map, and the resulting route is automatically optimized if that is enabled under the Route button. Examples are available for download below:
For more information about importing files, see Can I import from files or other apps?
For countries using the metric system, inRoute defaults to temperature in °C and lengths in meters/kilometers; otherwise temperatures in °F and lengths in feet/miles are used (the UK defaults to length in feet/miles and temperature in °C). However, units can be manually overridden by tapping the map’s More icon, then “App Settings” (on Mac, the inRoute menu > Preferences…).
There’s an “Undo” option available under the map’s More icon (on Mac, the “Edit” menu) for most changes to the map. Places added to the map are also automatically saved periodically.
Your routes are also automatically saved as Recents after every change: to access, tap the map’s More icon, then “Recents” (on Mac, “Recents” are available on the sidebar).
For additional help restoring map pins, contact us using the “More” button (on Mac, the Help menu), then “Contact Support”.
If the forecast does not appear accurate, first verify the route’s Departure Time is correct (shown near the top-left of the chart). Weather data along the route are based on when you’re expected to be at that area (Departure Time + Drive time + Layovers you’ve set). If the forecast does not appear accurate, please contact us so we can look into it further: map’s More icon > Contact Support (on Mac, the Help menu).
Dropped pins cannot be moved once they’ve been added to a route, as indicated by the change in pin color (no longer purple). However, you can add another dropped pin with a long-press on the map. Alternately, removing the pin from your route may change the pin back to purple, so long as another dropped pin has not been added to the map (only one draggable pin can be on the map at a time).
You can set departure times for your route and for its waypoints under the Route button. By default, the route’s departure time uses the time zone at the route’s Start pin. You can instead use a different time zone by tapping the “Time Zone” button shown when setting the route’s departure time.
Waypoint departure times can be set by tapping a waypoint in the list, then the “Leave at” tab, and these also use the time zone at that waypoint’s location. For example, setting a “Leave at” time of 07:00 means you plan to depart from the waypoint at 07:00 local time. To make planning across time zones easier, the time in the route’s departure time is also shown when setting the time for a single waypoint.
Calculated arrival/departure times for the route are shown under the Turns button, or on the map by showing a pin’s details. By default, arrival/departure times are shown in local time zones for each route location. At the top of the list, a “Time Zone” button allows changing these times to use the route’s departure time zone instead.
inRoute uses Apple’s map data for search and directions by default, and the steps below can be used to report a problem to Apple starting within inRoute.
For a problem with map pin data, such as an incorrect label or address:
For a problem with route directions, such as not showing a faster route between two locations: