Best Practices
Take control of your Offline Map experience.
Before leaving on your trip, check your Offline Maps and make sure all the information you need is there.
Click here to learn how to prepare your Offline Maps for field use.
Preserve your battery and save mobile data.
Use the Offline Maps feature and airplane mode to save power and mobile data.
onX recommends that you DO NOT use the battery or power-saving features on your device as they will cause your location to be less accurate.
Click here to read about a battery-saving experiment conducted by our founder.
Allow onX Backcountry to run in the background.
Your phone or tablet will limit the amount of power and memory that the onX Backcountry App uses when you are not looking at it or touching the screen. This may cause some of the app's features not to work correctly.
Open the Settings menu on your device, find the onX Backcountry App in your list of installed apps, and tap it to open the onX Backcountry App menu.
For iPhones and iPads, turn on "Background App Refresh."
For Android devices, turn on "Allow background data usage."
Do not log out.
If you log out of the onX Backcountry App, you will not be able to log back in without an internet connection, even if you have saved Offline maps.
Closing the onX Backcountry App will not log you out, and you will be able to open it again even outside the cell network.
Tips and Tricks
Show other users where you are
You can quickly mark your location with a Waypoint and share it with any other onX user to show them where you are.
This feature will only work when your device is connected to the internet.
Click here for instructions on creating Waypoints.
Click here for instructions on sharing Waypoints.
Place a Waypoint at an exact latitude/longitude location
Use Search to center your map over the coordinates, then use the "Add a Waypoint" tool to place a Waypoint in the center of your map.
Click here for instructions on using Search.
Click here for instructions on creating Waypoints.