So, today I tried the Live track for a second time on a simple mile walk. I used myself as the email recipient so that I can test this out.
Cons
1-The Live Track map killed my phone battery from 98 to 45 % in a 20 min session, while monitoring my location.
2.When trying to complete the session , my fenix 5 and iPhone stopped syncing. The session Live Track could not be ended from the watch or the phone, just frozen.
I thought at this point that I lost my activity which was no big deal since it was just a trial.
3. During the session I tried to use Track Back, and for the first time my watch was pretty much useless, everything froze.
After 3 reboots, it finally started to work again but still could not end the Live Track session. This did not allow the watch and phone to sync.
Finally I just went deep into the watch settings and forced ended Live Tracking, after this everything worked perfect again.
Pros
1 The idea is great for outdoor activities so that someone else can monitor you location incase of something bad.
I don't think I want to try this again until something is really fixed.
Why:
1.I could have lost my activity.
2. I would have been frozen in the middle of an activity, like in my case MTB.
3 My navigation would have been really impaired, especially in the mountains in the middle of nowhere.
4.Track Back is huge for me. I tend to go out and enjoy many trails without really worrying about my location since I know that I can use the Track Back to get back to my car, probably one of the best features this watch has.
It's too bad this Live Track doesn't work even though the idea is nice.
