Track trips and get notifications

Notifications

GoTrack has always offered a convenient way to check in on your daily commute, but lately, we’ve been finding ways to keep you on time without you having to open the app at all. We released widgets back in March to provide a glanceable schedule, and now we’ve released push notifications.

When a trip that you are interested in is significantly delayed or cancelled, you will receive a push notification to your device. You can tap the notification to open GoTrack and seek more detail.

Tracking trips

Not every delayed or cancelled trip will send you notifications. To avoid overwhelming you, only trips that you manually track will notify you. To track a trip, find it in your schedule, tap into its detailed view, and tap Track trip.

To track trips, you will need to register a GoTrack user account using Sign in with Apple. You will be prompted to do so the first time that you attempt to track a trip. Registering an account with Sign in with Apple only takes a few seconds, does not require you to create and remember another password, and respects your privacy.

To receive notifications on your tracked trips, you will need to consent in-app to receive notifications from GoTrack. If you decline this permission and change your mind later, you can turn it on in your device’s settings.

Trip history

Tracked trips are stored in your own personal history in a new Trips tab. This can help you keep track of the GO Train trips that you’ve taken over time and allows you to manage which trips you will receive notifications about. You can swipe from right to left on any trip to quickly untrack it.

For now, this list of trips has limited use, but we have big things planned for later this year for both this view and the trip tracking feature generally.

Feedback

Thank you for being a GoTrack subscriber. If you have any questions or concerns, please email us any time. We’re usually able to respond within a few hours.