QField 3.5 “Fangorn”: Background tracking a reality! | QField - Efficient field work built for QGIS

Let’s not bury the lead here: the long-awaited capability to track position while QField is in the background or the device is locked has arrived in this brand-new version of QField. This feels like a magical moment, so we settled for a fantastical forest for our release name.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://qfield.org/blog/2025/03/04/qfield-3.5-fangorn-background-tracking-a-reality/