Guide · Recording

Locked phone, closed app and gaps

Why Yut keeps recording in your pocket, what happens if iOS closes it, and what a dashed line means.

Once you tap Start, you can lock the phone and forget about it. Yut keeps recording in the background.

Recording carries on whether Yut is on screen, in the background, or closed by iOS.

If iOS closes the app

On a long day iOS may close apps to save memory, and a swipe-up can close Yut too. Your recording isn't lost:

iOS restarts Yut's location tracking in the background once you've moved about 200 m (650 ft).
The points recorded meanwhile are kept safely on the phone.
Next time you open Yut, the route comes back and those points are filled in.

Dashed lines are gaps

Where Yut had no points for more than a minute and you moved more than 100 m (330 ft), the line is drawn thin and dashed instead of guessed at. The same goes for the stretch across a pause.

A recorded route with a dashed stretch in the middle where no GPS points were recorded — A **gap**: Yut couldn't see you here, so it draws a dashed line straight across.

Updated October 12, 2026 · Still stuck? Ask us