Question
Two of my devices recorded the same drive — is it counted twice?
No. When your phone and your tablet (or two phones) record the same trip, it is counted once. The second recording is kept, marked, and adds nothing — and you can change which one counts.
No. If your phone and your tablet are both in the car with drive recording on — or you carry two phones — each records the trip. Your log notices, and counts the trip once.
What happens to the second recording
When the second recording reaches your log, it is filed as just that: a second recording of a trip the log already has. It is:
- kept whole — its own times, miles and route, exactly as a drive you keep. Nothing of it is merged into the other one;
- still in your log, marked Recorded on two devices;
- counted nowhere — not in your business miles, your deduction, a job's mileage, the miles a travel fee is priced from, or the log you export. It never asks to be filed.
Which one counts? The one your log had first. One exception: if nothing had been said yet about the first, and the second arrived already filed — to a job, say, by your other device — the filed one counts, so the job keeps its drive and there is nothing for you to file again.
Your log only ever pairs two recordings, from different devices, that set off and stopped within a few minutes of each other, between the same two places, and are about as long. A drive you typed in, two drives from the same device, the drive there and the drive back, or a short drive inside a longer one are never paired.
Where you see it
Open More → Mileage → All drives. The second recording is in its place by time, with Recorded on two devices · counted once under it and not counted where its worth would be. It adds nothing to the day's drives or miles, and it is never under To file.
Tap it to see its map, and what you can say of it.
Open Mileage, and the month of the drive. Under the month's drives, Recorded on two devices lists each second recording by its day and time, with counted once, as the recording that set off at … — a link to the one that counts.
In the month's list, the drive that counts says recorded on two devices, counted once under its route.
Open either one for its page. The second recording's page is headed second recording, and says which recording counts.
If it got it wrong
You have two answers, beside the second recording — on its page on the phone, and on Mileage and its page on the web:
- Count this one instead. This recording counts, and the other becomes the second recording. If nothing had been said about this one, what the trip was filed as — its job, its errand — comes with it, so a job's miles are still counted once.
- These were two drives. Both count, each as it is filed, and your log never pairs these two again. A drive that was waiting goes back under To file. The phone asks first: These were two drives?
Count this one instead can be switched back the same way, from the other recording. These were two drives is for good — if you change your mind, remove one of the two. One case is refused, and says why: when the recording that counts is filed to a job of another business you work in, and this one is kept with your own practice, the job's miles stay with that recording.
If you remove the one that counts
Its second recording does not start counting by itself, and it does not disappear. It stays in your log, and now says not counted: the other recording of this trip was removed from the log (on the phone, Recorded on two devices · not counted), with Count this one. Nothing of the trip is counted until you say so — or put the removed drive back.
The same goes for filing: mark the drive that counts Personal or Commute, and the trip is personal or a commute. The second recording stays out of your miles.
Good to know
- You don't need to remove a second recording, and you don't need to record on one device only. Removing a drive loses its route; a second recording keeps it.
- Drives that were already in your log when this was added, in October 2026, are left as they were. If two of them are the same trip, remove one — see See a drive on a map, and fix it.
- If two recordings of one trip are both counting — one device noticed the car much later than the other, say — remove one of them the same way.
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