Add Turn by turn directions to Mobile App Routes/Recording

[Brendan]

Please add turn by turn audio directions so we don’t have to always be looking at our phone while on an activity. I’d personally use this for cycling but I imagine it’s useful for many other activities as well. 

Pros

• If you need to save battery you could turn your phone screen off and navigate purely by the audio directions. (For activities where you may be watching the app mid-activity, like cycling)
• Saves you from the disruption of pulling out your phone for directions mid-activity. Stay in your flow!
• Not having to look at your phone in a busy area is safer, especially on a bike.
• Completes Strava as a navigation app, meaning less need for other devices, and people are more likely to subscribe for Strava Premium. 

[rwoodut]

How is this not available? Please add audio cues via headphone for turn by turn, including when you’re off course. Please!!! 

[cave4runner]

I can't find any hint that you are even considering Turn by Turn Directions. What's the deal?

[KevinNC]

I'm having trouble justifying my Strava subscription with such a basic feature as turn by turn directions missing.  Should also mirror turn by turn directions on wear OS devices by now, so when I'm running I don't have to carry a phone.  My smartwatch with GPS and data should be all I need 

[chrissspossible]

Hey Strava-team. It would be so meaningful to have the option to use routes on smart watches without mobile phones. 
All I can see on my Apple Watch are the Preferences and the option to track an activity. That’s not a lot, is it?

Happy to move on with you. 

[lingfit]

I really need this. It's annoying to not have this feature and i have to go to ridewithgps for it!

[Jahroo]

This feature alone would justify the subscription price and is something competitive apps do already! (Komoot, Ride with GPS, etc). It feels like table stakes, STRAVA: anyone exploring your app for the first time would expect it to do turn-by-turn on day one. 

[AndrewNYC]

I'm considering buying another fitness app's premium package in order to have an audible turn cues feature - I'd let my Strava membership lapse and go to free version,  as frankly not getting lost is valuable, and I don't want to pay for multiple fitness apps. This really should be available at this price point.

[volvodad]

Pls 🙏 I’m a new Strava user and finding routes was a huge draw but not having audio directions and needing to pull out my phone all the time feels like…what’s the point

[Former Member]

Still nothing?

Such a terrible thing that we have to use a second app to be able to navigate our routes.

[wildlobo71]

I'm not certain where the Features Suggestion Board is, so if I can be rerouted after posting, please let me know...

1. I create walking maps of my city, usually looking like a grid, as I try to walk every street in my city... sometimes routes overlap, or double back on themselves, but in a map I've created, I don't see step by step instructions so sometimes I miss that I wasn't supposed to turn there, or I was to walk to a point and then return back... can Strava maps, as I'm using them, show the route upcoming and moves I should make if I want to be honest to the map I created?  

2. I'd like to be able to create Folders in my profile to stash my maps so it's better organized... right now I have 200ish maps created and sometimes digging through the screens is too much and I'll just create new ones just so they are at the top of the queue.

Thanks! 

[PeterG]

Not only would this be useful, but it is a safety issue. Cycling, with my phone attached to my handlebars, I should not need to be looking at the phone to see which way to turn, distracting me from what’s happening on the road ahead. Ditto any other road based activity such as running or walking. I should be able to hear an audio description Just as in Google Maps for instance. “In 200 m turn left”. “In 50 m turn left”. “In 5 m turn left”.

This will be so useful and much much safer than having a map that I have to visually refer to. 

[Eskimo007]

   You're lucky you have a mount on your handlebar, my StrideCharge I had for my iPhone 13 doesn't fit with my new iPhone 15 and they dont make a case for the iPhone 15 (!) so I have to pull it out of the pocket in the back of my jersey all the time, even more dangerous.  

   I wear hearing aids connected to my (IOS) phone that Google Maps can talk to, so come on, Strava, we wait...

- JnR, member since 2015

[Stefanucl]

How do I vote for this? Absolutely essential and ridiculous imo that it’s not a default feature on such an expensive app. 

[soutarm]

Wow, 2 years and still nothing. I've been using (and enjoying!) the Strava Maps feature where it generates a route for me based on my distance but stopping my run, taking out my phone and checking if I'm still on track is suboptimal. I often use Google Maps which has audible turn-by-turn directions but as far as I'm aware I can't get a Strava route and plug it in there either. 

[divemark]

I love the route feature for runs, I'm traveling a lot for work and run in cities I'm unfamiliar with. 

Pick a route close by, go on a run great.

Having to hold my phone all the time to navigate the route not cool 

I'll let my subscription lapse. I don't get much value out of all the stats etc. the routes is why I use it but it's too annoying to not have turn by turn navigation. 

Anyone knows where to sign up for release notifications? I'd like to come back when they have it.