Built with your privacy as the default.
Verifiable, not just promised.
Privacy at Orbit isn't a setting you have to go looking for — it's the default state the app starts in, and it shapes how every location, message, and moment moves between you and your friends.
The three mechanics below aren't marketing language. They're the actual rules our servers enforce every time a friend's map updates: what precision you choose to share, how you can disappear from view entirely, and what happens the moment someone goes quiet.
Ghost Mode
Ghost Modeis fully reciprocal: switch it on, and you broadcast no location to anyone, and you see nothing back. Going invisible means going blind, too — there's no version of Ghost Mode that lets you watch everyone else while staying hidden yourself.
That reciprocity has one deliberate exception, built for fairness. Stay hidden for more than half of the last 24 hours, then briefly turn Ghost Mode off, and your friends will see one frozen, normal-precision snapshot of where you were, for the next hour, even if you re-enable Ghost Mode immediately afterward.
That single rule is what stops Ghost Mode from being used to quietly watch everyone else while staying invisible yourself.
The Stale Gate
If a friend's location hasn't refreshed in over 24 hours, they are hidden from your map entirely — no pin, no circle, no label, and no appearance in any list.
They reappear automatically the moment their app posts a fresh location. Nothing has to be done manually on your end — stale data simply stops rendering, and current data takes its place.