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How to Track Santa's Journey Today on iPhone and iPad

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As it has done in previous holiday seasons, Google today began tracking Santa's journey on the web, mobile web for iOS, as well as on Android mobile and Android TV. With the tool, you can easily track Santa's trip as he delivers presents around the world in real time, including an estimated arrival time for your specific area. This marks Google's thirteenth year of tracking Santa's journey.

To start tracking, open a web browsing app on your iPhone or iPad (Safari and Chrome support the mobile optimized tracker), and then visit the official website for Google Santa Tracker. On both mobile and desktop, the site will show you a live map of Santa's location, his next stop, a live video feed of his trip, and an estimated arrival time for your area.

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If you scroll down you can see pictures of the places he's already visited, more details about these locations, a live count of the gifts he's delivered, and more. Google last year added these features into its main Google Maps app for iOS, but as of writing the Santa tracker does not appear to be in the iOS app this year.

Of course, there are plenty of other Santa tracking services and apps on the App Store, including NORAD Tracks Santa Claus [Direct Link]. NORAD's Santa tracking app is mainly a countdown timer that links you out to the mobile web when you want to start tracking the journey.

Similar to Google, NORAD details where Santa was last seen, where he's heading to next, and how many gifts he's delivered. You can also interact with a 360-degree video feed of Santa's sleigh as he makes his journey around the Earth. If you're on Mac or other desktop computers, you can visit NORAD's full Santa tracking website right here.

At the time of writing, Santa was last seen over the Andaman Sea and heading to Thailand.

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You can ask Alexa and it will query NORAD , but trying to ask Siri gets ‘everywhere’.

Lame.
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Have a great Christmas Eve, Christmas Day!
 
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Yes, let me download a govrmnt app so I can track Santa and they can track me.
Yup my point was made.
 
"Santa will arrive in about 4 hours"

Well, he'd be mighty late then.

In Germany December 24, so Christmas Eve is gifting day.

Other than that a really cool site.

JosephAW said:
Yes, let me download a govrmnt app so I can track Santa and they can track me.
Yup my point was made.
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Yes... they need THIS APP/website so they can track you. No other way.

Kids, stay safe and don't use this.

Don't forget to turn off location services on your otherwise 100% clean mobile OS too, because they wouldn't dare using cell tower information or WiFi triangulation anyways to track you if interested, right?

Don't kid yourself, this service does nothing more than polish Google's public perception and - much more - bring some joy to kids into the world because lo and behold: Google is a company that DOES make some room in employee's schedules to just work on "fun projects" as well to boost morale.

Many leading tech companies in Silicon Valley do this.

I assume this is one such project. Fathers and mothers work there, too.


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So at what age do you tell your kids that you've been lying to them forever? Or do you leave that up to their playground peers?
 
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UL2RA said:
There is a Santa Claus though.
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Nikolaus is something else imo brings candies on the 6th and if you behaved badly during the year, Knecht Ruprecht is going to take you away instead. In the eve of the 24th, the „Christkind“ is bringing the presents, not Santa
 
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Fake news!

BTW, my fireplace need service....creosote everywhere

I needed to decide between an iPhone X or the fix the fireplace. I don’t know if Santa can do some magic and get me an iPhone X
 
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town” has got to be the creepiest song I’ve ever heard. Let’s threaten or children into good behavior or else we’ll turn them over to a nighttime stalker who watches them while they sleep.

I’ll stick with Rudolph. Wait, that leaves bullying by a bunch of hypocrites unpunished.

Chestnuts? Damn chestnut blight!

Ok, I think Silent Night is safe territory.

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night! (And that poem says Santa’s a smoker, btw.)
 
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Who ever still believes here in Santa also believes that Apple is doing the right thing by throttling our phone. Also believes that Apple’s $1000 iPhone pricing is justifiable.
 
itsmilo said:
Nikolaus is something else imo brings candies on the 6th and if you behaved badly during the year, Knecht Ruprecht is going to take you away instead. In the eve of the 24th, the „Christkind“ is bringing the presents, not Santa
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I prefer Belsnickel, personally.

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now i see it said:
So at what age do you tell your kids that you've been lying to them forever? Or do you leave that up to their playground peers?
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You don't seem to be exposed to any kids I assume, otherwise you'd know that they figure it out themselves and not sure how you and your childhood peers were raised, but I do not know a single childhood friend that felt betrayed back then, if anything it's usually a phase of "yeah I'm old enough to know better" at first with regret later on that the magic is gone.

The key being that kids - as long as they believe - feel a magic for the whole story.

Now I am aware that there are kids that feel bad when they learn about it, but honestly that's usually if they are too young.

Also, don't talk about Santa Clause all year long and use him as an excuse for parenting decisions 24/7 or otherwise prop it all up.

Glassed Silver:ios
 
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