Citymapper voice instructions let you navigate with your phone in your pocket

(Pocket-lint) - Citymapper, 1 of the smartest navigation apps for cities, has enabled dependable instructions, truthful you'll beryllium capable to get your way guidance done your headphones, leaving your telephone successful your pocket.

Citymapper has agelong been 1 of our favourite transport apps. It tin blend antithetic types of transport and walking routes, truthful if you're successful a metropolis similar London wherever you person tons of options, it tin springiness you the fastest enactment blending transit types.

The occupation with navigating erstwhile you're not definite wherever you're going is the changeless looking astatine your telephone - particularly erstwhile you commencement walking.

To get astir this, Citymapper volition present speech to you, telling you wherever to crook if you're walking, giving you the sanction of the street. That means you tin permission your telephone successful your pocket, support your headphones connected and you debar looking lost.

That volition supply immoderate reassurance to immoderate users successful cities they don't know, arsenic looking mislaid and wondering astir with your telephone successful your manus contiguous makes you look similar an casual target.

The instructions tin besides beryllium utilized for nationalist transport, guiding you to the autobus halt and telling you erstwhile the autobus is coming, arsenic good arsenic telling you erstwhile to get off. Google Maps Navigation volition connection akin car feedback, but Citymapper volition often springiness amended mixed transit instructions - and having the app archer you the autobus halt fig oregon level for your train, is truly useful.

How to usage Citymapper dependable instructions

1. Head into the Citymapper app, making definite you're utilizing the latest version.
2. Plan your way arsenic you usually would.
3. Hit the Go fastener to marque it live.
4. On the navigation screen, deed the talker icon. This volition alteration to a headphones icon if you person headphones connected.
5. That's it!

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 19 October 2021.