How To Turn An Old iPhone Into A Satnav With No Sim Card, 4G, Wi Fi or Cellular Data 

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you. I’ve been using an old iPhone as a satnav for a few years but I didn’t know that it doesn’t have to have a SIM card. You have just saved me some money! Thanks again. John

Brilliant content. Not only will I follow your advice with my old iPhone 6, I also ordered an ultimate addon phone case. Looks a far better option than a quad lock or similar. Subscribed 👍

Your a legend fella brilliant found your channel buy accident looking for a motorcycle sat navigation. I've subscribed to your channel and liked the video

Another great and informative video Craig.. I've got a old iPhone 5,,try to check it out later..

That was a top video, what an excellent idea also like the emergency NOK details on the home page👍

what a great video. great way to use an old phone and love the idea of emergency information

Many thanks for a great tip, I already use my existing phone for offline maps but not as a satnav on the bike. Thanks to you I have now set up my old useless Nokia phone as a satnav.

Really good info and well explained - lovely jubbely! Thanks!

Bostin, I'm going to have a go at that tomorrow, thanks Craig

This is brilliant. I'm upgrading to a new phone and the trade-in is worthless. I have a new driving job so this will eliminate all the confusion associated with using my personal phone. Thank you!!!

Brilliant idea! Well done!😀👍

Going to do that as soon as I am back home tonight great idea Thanks for sharing

Brilliant! converted an old samsung and it works a treat, thank you , great channel content too btw.

Heading to Italy and will be taking your advice on this. Thanks for the insight. :)

Fantastic!! Thanks. I'll definitely be pulling out an old phone

Brilliant 👍, just used an old iPhone 6 for our trip this week to France and Belgium, worked a treat..thanks for the tip 😊

Agree brilliant, this is the simple solution been looking for, thanks

Smart ideas. Thanks for the video

Clever man, got my vote. 😊

great tip, thanks so much. was just going to throw away an old phone!!

Very useful way to use an old phone, thanks!

Amazing video m8! Used to use an offline map/app that downloaded tracked everything and no 3g/4g required

Great tip about the Lock Screen!

Great help, thank you! 👍🏼

Why has it been 2 years before I seen this, and good idea about the home screen

Wow, this was really helpful. Thank you because I always lose signal and by downloading it hopefully, it will work.

Brilliant truly Brilliant and i have a old phone with a quad lock case 👍

Awesome video. Thank you.

Great idea for your old phone 🤟

I've been looking into this exact subject and boooom I found your vid.. Thank you.. I am also trying a couple of free apps that you download the maps (via WiFi at home)

Great video, thanks for sharing!

Brilliant thanks for the video👍

Hi Craig. Thanks for a great video what a great idea 👍🏻. My wife and myself are new to your channel and are just watching the France tour 2022. Really like how you narrate and the content you use especially the history parts of your journey. Keep up the great work as we look forward to working our way through your content. 👍🏻

Brilliant idea. Gonna go and get another phone....

Excellent idea as I’ve an old iPhone 8 and the UA case already. How did you get the Emergency details on the home screen? Thanks

Brilliant, thanks for this.

Really useful, was wondering how to set it up.

Brilliant! Definitely a helpful video! Gonna try my old iPhone 4. If it doesn’t work, I’m gonna use this iPhone XR once I upgrade to a new phone. Thanks man.

Very good thanks for uploading, isn't YT just great. Ride safe

Hello! Very nice video! Great information! I really like it! Nice upload! Thank you for sharing! Have a nice week!

Great idea about the emergency information on the locked screen!

Legend!!!! Im going to do that now thank you

Thank you for the great tip!! Ride safe

Thanks for explaining how to set my old iPhone for google maps.

Top tip Maverick cheers 👌👍🏻

Excellent tip

Good info thanks

Thanks very much for sharing, starting to wonder why i have a TomTom rider 5 now..lol

Recognise your route - my route when I worked in B’ham!

Nice one 😎

Brilliant idea

Thank you! Going to France and don't want to use data (enemy husband can't navigate....!) so this is a fab back thank you xx

top tip craig nice one

Fantastic idea

How did you select the correct areas for each download?? I understand how to save the maps but not sure how to select the additional areas without overlap. I love your concept and just installed a mount today, now I need to download all the map data for Pennsylvania

great idea, got an old HTC Android i can keep purely for on the bike.

@motourev really enjoy your videos. It would be great to hear your thoughts on Google maps v a Garmin XT now you have a Garmin. Maybe a topic for a video.

Very useful video. I presume this will work on an older Samsung phone? How did you get the Emergency details on the home screen? Thanks

Brilliant. I wonder if you could also use it as a stolen/lost bike locater. That's your next challenge Craig. John P

Excellent idea

hi Craig great vlog cracking idea any chance you could tell me what phone mount you use have same bike but cant see anywhere to mount case cheers mate , Bill

What a great idea! Thank you. May I ask what is the phone holder you are using for your bike?

Hi Moto, Really like the info you’ve provided. I’m after some advice please. I’m an old dinosaur biker ( not tech savvy at all )about to do my 1st solo motorcycle mini break , the Northumberland 250. I’ve been practicing with Google maps and have come across a problem that I can’t fix, I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction. The problem….. I put in my destination then add several stops, making sure the final destination is at the bottom but when I arrive at the 1st stop the navigation system asks me to press ‘continue’ and I really don’t want to stop every 6 miles or so having to take my gloves off to press ‘continue’ Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Tony

I used to do this with my Samsung Galaxy S5, but it being a Samsung kept overheating. Left me stranded without directions quite a few times in my first year of riding. Seems to work fine with other brands' old phones though.

Awesome information and I have an Iphone 6 in the cupboard doing nothing. Excellent idea. What case and phone mount are you using? Is it a Quad Lock?

Brilliant idea!!! Do you also have it connected to your communicator in your helmet?

Can you use this as a tracker in your car (in case the car is stolen)? If so, how do you connect an old iPhone 6 to a 6s? Thanks!

This is great- many thanks for showing how to do this. Just done this on an old iPhone 5s - google maps working ok, I think. Do you (have to) leave your old phone logged into your apple and google accounts or do you sign off after your maps updated/ route set? Haven't been able to set map for whole of UK so not sure how you did that but I do have a reasonable chunk for offline...

can you change the road like on pc? I mean if i do not want to go on that road can I click and move the router like on pc?

Sounds great but I ran into this problem where the GPS thinks I’m at a different place than where I actually am. Any tips from anyone? Thx

I've been using this method for a couple of years. Only criticism is that you don't gel traffic updates. If you can live with that then no problem.

You can go a step further if You like, if you set your prime mobile as Hotspot WiFi and connect the "bike phone" to have the real time data about traffic and close roads etc. You can set the notifications also off to avoid the annoying interruptions. I actually set my "bike phone" as a "clone" of my prime phone in case anything happens to it, to put only my SIM to the "bike phone" and have everything available again as before. That requires of course an old phone with enough memory or a phone with expandable memory.

Bro,great vid can you save a route on the phone?

Does the GPS update the route with live traffic data ?

Hi ... wondering what video app allowed you to have have gopro (camera) and simultaneously the iphone screen ? thanks for sharing

Nice video. How do you power the phone while riding?

Thanks for making a very useful video. Do you know if this would work in a car and if so, can you get the voice instructions? Any reply would be much appreciated. All The Best Tom.

GOLDEN TIP - activate a wifi hotspot on the phone in your pocket and connect your sat-nav phone to your hotspot. BAM! you've now got live traffic and road closure/diversion updates 😇 🎉

Have you done anything with off-road routes on the old phone etc ?

I have a old Samsung A8 (not to old) and use the waterproof case similar to yours. My question is how to keep the screen from timing out when plugged in to bike power. I have gone into the settings and set to longest time out in displays but there is no "on all the time" setting? I understand you used an apple phone in vid but hope you have a trick or to two for this.

Cracking idea mate,does it send the route to your Cardo too ??? Only one thing though,did you have to keep mentioning the Iphone 6 is an OLD phone lol ;-) Ride Safe Baza \m/

Great vid Craig,i've not got a old phone to use just as a satnav.But like the idea,i can buy a unlocked iphone 6 very cheap.Do you think its worth a punt.Ps did you upgrade to a gobi 3.

Hi can you set up various routes along the main one

Nice what was the phone holder on your bike

Thanks for sharing this,can you get google voice?

Can you tell me if the maps have hotel locations in and places of interest too?

Do you still need to use your Apple ID to get the phone going?

Can you Bluetooth audio description / directions to helmet speakers with this method?

Fantastic idea, would iy be OK to share your video with other biker groups that I'm in,

This is a very good idea but I could suggest two improvements. 1: Use your personal phone, but use ‘Do not Disturb While Driving’ - this means no notifications will pop up until you turn your engine off. 2: Put a SIM card in this with some data 3gb will do. Both of these will allow you to use the ‘online’ versions of Google Maps, which means you get real time updates for road closures, speed traps, obstacles, accidents and traffic information. I personally wouldn’t use google maps without being online.

Hi. Is this just point to point navigation or you can add stops? Thx

I'd need a GPS with roads like that too

how do you download the map onto the phone via the internet since I have no service on the 6plus phone?

Dude, use tethering. You will have it updated all the time.

Hi. Could you somehow use an old phone and tether it to a new phone so you get live traffic? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Might be worth connecting old phone to personal hotspot on new phone, and get live updates.

tanx for the idea.. Please help me to find this mobile phone holder. ❤

Can you download the maps and turn on Airplane mode? Will that stop notifications coming through?

What about sun glare. Does the case help a bit with that ? As I found smartphones pretty much suck in the sunlight.

Trying this with an unused iphone7. I have managed to get my "home screen" blank, but can't figure out how to put all the emergency details on the screen that you have on yours. Please help.