Upgraded Glastonbury app offers live location sharing and steps counter
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An upgraded official Glastonbury app includes live location sharing and a steps counter for the first time as revellers finalise plans for their arrival at the 900-acre site.
Building on last year's revamp, Vodafone's 2025 edition focuses on "keeping friends and family connected" as they join around 210,000 others at the world-famous festival from June 25, the telecoms firm said.
The app now offers live location sharing on the Glastonbury map, in a bid to make it easier for festival-goers to find their friends across the site.
Step count tracking has been added to the My Highlights post-festival wrap, so attendees can reflect on the ground covered over the five days.
In other key updates, the Shared Line-ups feature will now automatically update, helping festival-goers spot who their friends are seeing and allowing them to plan their day accordingly.
A map search feature is also designed to make it easier to navigate Worthy Farm and find different cuisines, locate camping and merchandise stands or discover new stages.
It also reprises some 2024 features, including personalised recommendations on artists performing at the festival based on listening habits through Spotify, the ability to share line-ups with friends, map pinning to help users find everything from their tent to a favourite food stall and automatic highlighting when artists overlap to help navigate the schedule.
In 2024, the app saw 226,215 total downloads, 88.9% from festival-goers attending Worthy Farm and 11.1% from viewers at home.
The app is free for iOS and Android.
Maria Koutsoudakis, chief brand officer at Vodafone UK, said: "We know the app plays a big role in the festival experience so, this year, we have gone even further to ensure that fans can connect with their friends or family and get as much out of Glastonbury as possible.
"Combined with us delivering the most Vodafone network capacity ever on-site, these new features will help festival-goers always be connected, no matter where they are across the site.
"We're delighted to be able to use these features to reward both fans and communities across the UK, by tying the new step count feature to our everyone.connected campaign. Social impact is a key part of Glastonbury's ethos as a festival, and we're proud to be able to play our part in that."
Vodafone's Connect & Charge tent will also offer free phone charging and WiFi on site.
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