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Now that Facebook is sunsetting Moves and has a data export, any chance you will make an import feature for all this data? I have almost 5 years of Moves data and I don't really want to lose it :(.
@johan_strom@frank_tet Hopefully the Moves importer will go live tomorrow! It's just waiting for Apple to approve the update.
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I would love to use something like this, but I just don't know what to do with the collected data. Any things I could really use the data for? EDIT: I'm also curious about data export and backup?
@manuelauer Export is something high on my wish list. I just haven't had time to build it yet :(
Though the data is accessible by your personal iCloud account, stored in your private container, so it wouldn't be too hard to export from there if you've got some basic programming skills. That's also how the app does backup and restore - from your private iCloud container.
As to what to use it for, personally I find it useful for knowing things like how long on average I stay at Starbucks each day (the app builds personal "Place Data" for the places you visit regularly), or how long it takes me to get from home to the mall, or what times of the day I'm most often at home. That sort of thing.
If you've got an Apple Health connected wearable (eg Apple Watch or other smart watch), then it can also keep track of your heart rate and calories burnt for each timeline item. So I use that to see how many calories I burn on average while at the gym, and whether my current gym visit is above or below average, whether my heart rate has been higher than usual, etc.
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@sobri909 Thanks for your answer! Looking forward to new updates. Also: I just accidentally marked a car drive as none of the above and now it's gone. Any way to revert this? I just wanted to confirm that I was driving.
@manuelauer Unfortunately there's no undo feature yet :( But you can go into timeline items then scroll to the bottom of details view and tap on "Recorded Activities". From inside there you can sometimes rescue bits that you want to keep as separate timeline items.
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@manuelauer I've just seen that the export function was realized in the meantime! Accessible via the calendar view (click "today" at the top of the app). Even automatic daily gpx exports to iCloud are possible.
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I’m looking for a replacement for moves and Arc app looks great. I really appreciate the possibility to track daily activity and sort the data also in relation of the places that I frequently visit. My only concern is about the possibility to import the Moves data, I have around 5 years of tracking data that I don’t want to lose. I have read that you are working on the import function, how things are going?
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@eugenio_romano_scotti I'm sharing your concerns - asked @sobri909 via email today and the update is being pushed to the App Store today. Let's hope it's available soon!
@eugenio_romano_scotti Sorry, didn't see your message until now! Yep, the Moves data importer should be going live tomorrow, assuming Apple's usual 1-2 days for app reviews.
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Hey, so far this has been great. I decided to start using it this month with the announcement of Moves closing.
I'm wondering if you guys have any plans to suck in Moves data before it closes at the end of this month? That would be amazing.
Hi folks! We just shipped a big update to Arc a couple of days ago, with a learning engine that can automatically detect walking, running, cycling, car, bicycle, train, bus, boat, and airplane travel. And it gets smarter the more you use it :)
It's still just a pet project, but hopefully it's polished enough to be useful. Let us know what you think! Thanks :)
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@sobri909 Hi Matt, I'm really liking this app. Great work! I've sent you an email with a few specific questions. I look forward to your reply.
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@sobri909 I really want to try Arc. It looks the perfect replacement for Moves and I can't find any alternative that does the same job. But I have an iPhone 5c and I just get a message saying I can't get it when I try to download. Any solution for me? Thanks
@lesley_moss Unfortunately Arc requires the motion coprocessor, so it's not possible to support the 5c 😞 But if you ever upgrade to an iPhone SE, that will work! The SE is a great little phone 😄
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Just learned about Arc after coming from using Moves! I'll give it a good test this summer! I do have a question. Can you describe how you use Photos from the iOS Photos Library?
@halgumbert Arc uses Photos permission only to show you your photos on timeline item details view. It doesn't copy them or store them at all, it just asks iOS for the list of photos taken during the timeline item's duration, then presents them in a grid in the details view, for easy viewing.
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- Can't recognize different activities; it's fine not to recognize between different transportations or running/jogging/walking, but when both walking and transportation aren't recognized from each other, it's a quite annoying and begs to ask, why I wouldn't use just regular active logger instead.
- Can't record the activity correctly; I consider myself lucky, when I had just one honest "What the actual fuck happened here?!"-moments on Moves during the 4 years I have used it. Here, there's been already two in span of the week I have used despite having the phone using the application actively, phone was having access to at least 3G constantly, and the app having constant access to GPS and GPS working correctly.
It's just bugs me, since this seems to be really nice app, offering more detailed information than Moves, yet due unreliability of it, I have to discard it as potential Moves-replacer.
Pros:
Looks neat and the UI is okay
Cons:
Just utterly unreliable.
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My observations are that the issues you're mentioning are being actively addressed by the dev - check github and twitter. The recent major version jump seems to be the cause for the unreliability right now, but there have been a couple of updates with fixes already. What other Moves replacement have you found for yourself?
- Can't recognize different activities; it's fine not to recognize between different transportations or running/jogging/walking, but when both walking and transportation aren't recognized from each other, it's a quite annoying and begs to ask, why I wouldn't use just regular active logger instead.
- Can't record the activity correctly; I consider myself lucky, when I had just one honest "What the actual fuck happened here?!"-moments on Moves during the 4 years I have used it. Here, there's been already two in span of the week I have used despite having the phone using the application actively, phone was having access to at least 3G constantly, and the app having constant access to GPS and GPS working correctly.
It's just bugs me, since this seems to be really nice app, offering more detailed information than Moves, yet due unreliability of it, I have to discard it as potential Moves-replacer.
Pros:Looks neat and the UI is okay
Cons:Just utterly unreliable.