Tether: Parking Timer Location
Find my car, even underground
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Save your spot in one tap, then follow your own footsteps back, even in an underground garage with no GPS. Choose a reminder before your meter runs out.
Tether remembers where you parked and leads you back along your own footsteps, even in an underground garage where GPS gives up.
TIE YOUR SPOT IN ONE TAP
Tap "Tie here" and the spot is saved the moment you touch the button. A mistaken tap can be undone for a few seconds. A photo, a note and a bay number are optional and can be added later.
FOLLOW YOUR OWN THREAD BACK
While Tether is open, it draws the path you walk away from the car. On the way back, "Find my car" follows that path, through the stairwell and across the lot, and shows the distance left and about how many steps. When GPS cannot reach, the path keeps growing from your steps and compass, so underground it is an estimate, not a survey. If Tether is open as you drive down, its barometer notices which underground level you parked on. Tether records the path only while the app is open; a stretch it missed shows as a dotted line, not a guess.
PARKING METER TIMER
Wind the meter with a dial, a preset from 30 minutes to 4 hours, or any length up to 24 hours. Choose how early you want a reminder, from 5 minutes to 2 hours before, and Tether sends a notification (allow notifications when asked). Choose more than 5 minutes and you also get a second one at 5 minutes left, and one when time runs out. It helps you avoid a parking ticket; it does not replace checking the meter.
ALWAYS WITHIN REACH
- Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Control Center button (iOS 18 and later)
- Siri and Shortcuts: "Where's my car in Tether?"
- Pocket mode: taps that quicken as you get close, so you can look up from the screen while Tether is open
- Open in Maps for walking directions to the spot
- A history of your past parking sessions, saved in the app
PRIVACY
No ads and no account. Your spots, photos, notes and paths are saved in the app and never uploaded to us; street names and maps come from Apple Maps. Tether counts how the app is used and reports crashes so it can be improved; neither includes where you parked.
Tether needs your location while you use it. Motion & Fitness access (steps and barometer) and the camera are optional. iPhone only, iOS 17.6 or later.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- The Photo, Note and Wind meter buttons now fit on every iPhone screen, at any text size.
- Plainer privacy wording: the camera permission prompt and the note in Spools now say that your photos and spots are saved in the app and never uploaded to us.
The developer, Mykola Rudenko, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Diagnostics
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Mykola Rudenko
- Size
- 14.8 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- Copyright
- © Mykola Rudenko