Most Uber Drivers know how to get and complete trips, but you may not know about their Destination Filter feature. With this setting, you can limit your availability for riders so that you're only matched with people whose destinations are in the area you specify.
Steps
Part 1
Part 1 of 2:
Setting a Destination
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1Open up the Uber Driver app. It's the maroon-backed icon with a white hexagon on it, with a square design cut out in the middle.
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2Set your destination filter. Most often, destination rides happen over longer distances (of over 50 mile radius), but sometimes this isn't the case. Tap the magnifying glass from the top left corner of the map. This will open your destination filter page.Advertisement
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3Set your address or location of your end destination. You can enter a residential address if you end each line of the address with a comma; the navigation system will usually find it.
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4Tap the address once it comes up in the list.
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5Confirm that you intend to head to this destination. Tap the "Set Destination" button.
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6Wait for the bottom bar to read "Destination Set" and display the address of the place. Even if you just type a city, it'll now read just the closest address to the pin. For residential buildings, you'll see the address. If you find the location by name, it'll say its name.
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7Start to drive towards the destination, following the map, if you'd like. Alternatively, you can wait at your present location to receive ride requests heading that way.
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8Wait for a ride request. Time waiting can vary; sometimes it helps to travel to find the rider.
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9Accept the request. The request will appear much like all other ride requests, but you'll see in bigger letters "towards your destination" appear at the bottom. Tap the circular button near the top center of the request to accept it.
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10Add other filter destinations if desired. After dropping off the first passenger at their location and/or arriving at the destination, you may set up to two different filter addresses in a twenty-four hour period (ending at 3AM local time).
- If your ride didn't take you all the way to the location, the feature remains on to help to navigate you to the place - you just have to drive and navigate there yourself.
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11Understand the back-to-back rides feature with the destination filter on. If the first rider has you drop them off not at your destination but at another, and another back-to-back ride comes in, accept it.
- Back-to-back rides on filtered rides are super-rare. You may have to backtrack no more than 5 minutes, but the new rider's destination will be closer to yours.
- If your rider's destination has you arriving at the filter location itself, the feature turns you off at the end of the ride and you can be on your merry way.
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Part 2
Part 2 of 2:
Removing a Destination
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1Tap the checklist button to the right of the address from the bottom bar.
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2Look for the destination address near the top of the planner. Tap the three vertical dots button.
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3Tap "Remove Destination".
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4Wait a few seconds. Once the destination address is out of the Trip Planner, you'll now be back online and waiting for all trips.
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5Tap "Go Offline" if desired.Advertisement
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Tips
- Add an arrival time if desired. If you want trips to head to a specific destination arriving at a certain time, you can set a Destination Filter address and you'll receive requests up until that time - as long as you navigate using their navigation to get you there. This time may differ as some destinations may give you options no sooner than a one hour from now.Thanks
- It you drop off a rider and they ask if you'll be around again to pick them up, you can enter their address into the filter and wait.Thanks
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