Select your destination using Search or Category search, open its Place Summary screen, and double-tap the Start Tracking button. Alternatively, you can also use the Quick Access menu in any of these lists. Double-tap and hold the place and select the Start Tracking option in the menu. If your destination is just a few blocks away, the direction and distance information will help you to choose the right turns to find it. Once you have arrived, tracking will be turned off automatically.

If your destination is further away or the route is more complex, you can start a third-party navigation app from the Place Summary screen of any place. Just double-tap the Plan A Route button or select this option in the Quick Access menu to see a menu letting you select one of the third-party navigation apps that are installed on your device and supported by BlindSquare. For a full list of supported apps, please see the section on Tracking, Favoriting and Route Planning.

The Plan a Route button will send the coordinates of the current venue to the third-party navigation app you have selected.

This means you can hear both the turn-by-turn directions of your navigation app and BlindSquare’s information about your environment.

Once third-party navigation has started, BlindSquare will also track your destination, announcing its distance and direction as you advance towards it. BlindSquare can either begin tracking immediately, or only when you have approached your destination and the distance is shorter than 150 meters. If you want BlindSquare to start tracking instantly, activate the Track Destination Automatically on Entire Route option in the BlindSquare settings.

Some of the third-party turn-by-turn navigation apps supported by BlindSquare are available for free. We recommend using either iOS Maps, which is installed on every iOS device, or Google Maps, which can be downloaded from the App Store and is VoiceOver accessible at the time of writing of this documentation.