Overview
Locations lives in Berg's top-left menu as its own mode. Inside it, the tab bar is split into:
- Map: the current family map for members with fresh shared updates.
- Trips: retained day-by-day route views based on the active plan.
- Places: saved places plus arrival and departure alert activity.
- Sharing: selected-device, permission, pause, and child-management controls.
Location sharing is optional
Berg works without location permission. Locations is for households that want planning and shared status
in the same app instead of adding a separate location tool.
Family Map
The Map tab shows household members who are actively sharing, are not paused, and have a fresh enough
update to trust as a live map pin.
- See the freshness summary for live, recent, stale, and off or waiting members.
- See the latest trusted shared position for each visible household member.
- Very stale locations are hidden from the live map until the selected tracking device uploads again.
- Use the map to understand who is home, at school, at practice, or on the move.
- Open Sharing if you need to choose a tracking device or fix permissions.
Sharing Controls
Berg's sharing controls are designed around one selected tracking device per person.
- Choose which iPhone or iPad is the current tracking device.
- Turn sharing on, pause it temporarily, or turn it off.
- Review the current sharing state directly inside the Locations area.
- Fix permission issues if the selected device is missing the required location access.
Platform note
In the current version, iPhone and iPad can act as tracking devices. Mac can view household location
state, but it does not upload live location points.
Route History
Trips lets you choose a household member and a retained local day, then review the path, movement
windows, and named stops Berg kept for that day.
- Switch between retained days for the selected member.
- Review route segments, named stops, inferred movement, and arrival or departure timing.
- Split days into trips using saved-place visits, coverage gaps, and motion separated by real dwell time.
- See when Berg intentionally does not draw a route because there was not enough retained movement.
Saved Places and Activity
The Places tab lets households save important destinations such as home, school, practice, and frequent stops.
- Save named places so Berg can recognize those stops in Route History.
- Review arrival and departure activity for the places you monitor.
- Manage which household members should be watched for arrivals or departures at each place.
- Reduce rapid GPS edge flapping with short server-side cooldowns for point-inferred alerts.
Useful everyday use cases
Families often use saved places for school pickup, after-school activities, sports practice,
grandparents' houses, and other destinations they want named clearly inside the app.
