Allow GPS access in your browser. When you press Start Audio Tour, the browser will ask for location permission — tap Allow. Without GPS the guide cannot detect which landmark you are passing.
Set your screen to never sleep.iPhone: Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never. Android: Settings → Display → Screen timeout → longest option. Not needed in the app.
Use headphones (wired or Bluetooth) so you hear the commentary clearly over tram and street noise.
Sit by a window for the best GPS signal and the best view of each landmark as it is announced.
📍 On the tram
GUIDE is ON by default (lit button) — commentary plays automatically as the tram passes each landmark. You can switch to manual mode any time:
Press Start Audio Tour and board the Light Rail (L2 or L3). All 22 landmarks are shown as numbered pins on the map.
With GUIDE ON, each landmark is narrated automatically as you pass — with the side it is on ("on your left" / "on your right"). Visited cards move to the bottom.
Tap GUIDE to turn auto-play off — then tap ▶ Listen on any card to play that landmark manually.
🎧 Podcast with the phone locked: listen with the tour on — press Start Audio Tour. Then the podcast does not break off when the screen goes dark. To choose a podcast, tap SEL. PODCAST.
SORT BY DISTANCE / SORT BY NUMBER (under the map) is the order of the list of places: the nearest first, re-sorted as you move, or the order of the tour. Tap to switch.
Heard already? The guide remembers which places you have already heard on this phone, even the next day, and does not repeat them. The red R (top left, next to ☽) starts again: every place once more.
Other guides nearby: the label in the bottom left corner of the map (“Also here — the guide…”, “Continues in the guide…”) takes you to the neighbouring guide. If you drag the map far, where this guide does not work, there is no map there: zoom out and pick the guide in that direction, or choose one from All guides.
🎧 Player buttons
13%How much of the story has played.
Previous place. A story that was cut goes on from where it stopped; one heard to the end starts again from the beginning. The story that was playing waits and goes on afterwards. Each further tap goes one more place back.
Paragraph back / forward: hear the last paragraph again or skip this one. In the podcast they move between parts the same way.
Play / pause.
Lock. Open — as usual, a new place can cut in. Tap it — the lock closes and lights up: the story plays to its end and new places wait. With the next story it opens again.
🔊Volume.
✕Close the story: the place will not start by itself again, only with ▶ Listen on its card — from where you closed it. On the podcast, ✕ switches the podcast off.
ℹ️ Good to know
📶 Mobile data is required: without a connection the guide does not work.
📱 With the screen off, in your pocket, the guide works only in the app. In the browser, keep the page open.
🔑 Your link works on one device at a time: open it on another phone and the guide moves there.
🎧 SEL. PODCAST opens the contents of the podcast: tap a topic and the podcast starts there. Between places the podcast plays by itself; the story of a place always interrupts it.
ℹ Additional information
This is a browser-based web guide — no app download required.
Mobile data required to stream audio. Sydney CBD has solid 4G/5G along the tram route. Keep this tab in the foreground — switching apps may reload and restart the guide.
Manual controls: tap a pin on the map to jump that landmark to the top of the list. Tap Navigate for Google Maps directions. Use SORT BY DISTANCE / NUMBER to switch order. Tap the compass icon to toggle North Up / Heading Up. Tap the ☾ (moon) button, top-left, to switch between day and night mode.
🗺️ Map controls: tap the compass icon to switch North Up / Heading Up — Heading Up turns the map with you and tilts the view like a car navigator. Two-finger gestures are enabled: twist to turn the map, slide both fingers up or down to tilt, pinch two fingers together to zoom out or spread them apart to zoom in. On a computer hold Ctrl and drag; + / − to zoom. Tap any pin to bring that attraction’s card to the top of the list.
⚠ Do not reload this page during the ride — reloading resets progress.
Want the whole city? The full Sydney Audio Guide adds the non-stop podcast and 180+ attractions for walking, driving and cycling.
Want the whole city? The full Sydney Audio Guide adds the non-stop podcast and 180+ attractions for walking, driving and cycling.
