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Activate automatic opening on iOS

How to turn on automatic opening on your iPhone, with a 30-day free trial.

Last updated 20 October 2026 · Checked for app 4.0.3

Before you begin

Step by step

Open Automatic opening

The home screen of the Parqio app with the row “Automatic opening” and the label “Try free” at the top

Tap “Automatic opening” at the top of the home screen, or go to Settings → Automatic opening.

Activate the free trial

The “Automatic opening” screen with a picture of a car in front of a garage door and the button “Activate free trial”

Tap “Activate free trial”. The trial lasts 30 days, and you don’t need a credit card.

Give access to your location

The card “Location access” with the label “Step 1 of 2” and the button “Continue”
  1. Tap “Continue”.
  2. When your iPhone asks, choose “Allow While Using App”.
  3. If the map says “Precise: Off”, tap it so it says “Precise: On”.
The iPhone asks whether Parqio may use your location, with “Allow Once”, “Allow While Using App” and “Don’t Allow”

Allow location all the time

The card “Always-on location” with the label “Step 2 of 2” and the button “Continue”
  1. Tap “Continue”.
  2. When your iPhone asks again, choose to let Parqio always use your location. Automatic opening needs this to work.

Give access to motion

The app uses motion to tell driving from walking.

  1. Tap “Continue” on the “Motion & Fitness” card.
  2. When your iPhone asks, tap “Allow”.
The iPhone asks whether Parqio may access your motion and fitness activity, with “Don’t Allow” and “Allow”

Choose whether you want notifications

The card “Notifications” with the label “Optional” and the button “Continue”

The last card, “Notifications”, is optional. Notifications confirm on your phone when a gate opens, and automatic opening works without them.

  1. Tap “Continue”.
  2. When your iPhone asks, tap “Allow” or “Don’t Allow”.
The iPhone asks whether Parqio may send notifications, with “Don’t Allow” and “Allow”, over the card “Notifications”

Check the entrances

The message “Your free trial has started!” with “Subscriptions” and “Close”

When you’re done, it says “Your free trial has started!”. All entrances that can open automatically are already on.

  1. Tap “Close”.
  2. Tap “Entrances”.
  3. Turn off the entrances you don’t want to use.
Entrances in the Parqio app: a switch for each entrance. When the switch is on, automatic opening is on for that entrance.

Automatic opening is now on. The gate opens when you drive towards it, but not when you walk.

Price after the trial

In Norway, automatic opening costs 39 kr a month or 348 kr a year per user after the trial. If your housing company covers the service (fleet agreement), you pay nothing.

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