If you use Uber often, whether it’s to order rides or food delivery, it’s not unusual to stop at some point and be faced with an unpleasant question: how much money have I spent? In my case, as an Uber user for several years, I usually order food through Uber Eats from time to time. In some streaks, I have even ordered delivery once a week.
After a while, Jiminy Cricket will inevitably show up to make us realize that we might need to cut back on our consumption, since ordering food to be delivered to our home is certainly not cheap. The same applies to travel. The sheer convenience of ordering a ride with Uber can lead to many people getting too used to it and ending up using the app more than they had originally intended.
So if you think it’s time to do the math and see how much you’ve spent on transportation or Uber Eats over the past few months or even years, you should know how you can request a copy of your data from Uber. Obviously, this isn’t just useful for knowing how much you’ve spent – that was just one example of why you might want to look at the data. You’ll also be able to get detailed information about car trips you’ve taken, or restaurants and products you’ve ordered.
To do this, you just have to enter this help page You can download your personal data from Uber by clicking on the link that says “How to download your personal data from Uber.” You will need to log in with your password, and then confirm your request via email. After doing this, you should receive a .zip in your email with several folders and Excel files, in which the data from your Uber trips and Uber Eats orders will be broken down.
What data can you obtain?
As we said before, there is a lot of information that you can collect, apart from knowing how much you have spent on orders (there is no total number, but you will have to add up the amounts that appear in Excel). This is all the data that will be sent to you by the company:
Account and profile data
- Your name, phone number, email address, qualification(s) and registration date
- All messages you have sent to drivers or passengers
- Information about your interactions with technical support
- Details about payment methods, such as bank name, billing country, and payment type
- Places you’ve saved for easy access
Driver or delivery partner details
- Device and app analytics from the past 30 days, such as your device’s operating system, device model, device language, app version, and the time and location the data was collected
- Details of each trip, including start and end times, distance traveled, and fare information
- Payments received for each trip, categorized by fare and charge type
- Copies of your driver-related documents, such as your license, insurance, and vehicle registration
If you use the app often, you can use this data to keep track of how often you use the service, how much you spend, or where you usually go. Knowing this can also help you, for example, to find out if it would be worth it to pay for an Uber One subscription, which allows you to get rides or home deliveries at a discount or without paying delivery costs.
