Beloved Santa tracker returns for Sky customers with secret remote trick to unlock the Christmas magic

SKY has confirmed that a hugely popular Christmas feature is returning to screens across the UK.

The special perk is a festive hit for the kids - and there's a remote control trick that unlock it too.

Santa Tracker allows viewers to see where Father Christmas is on his busy night delivering presents to children across the world.

And with 195 countries to visit, there's a lot to keep track of before he'll reach the British Isles.

Santa launches from the North Pole every year with his trusty reindeers, starting the huge trek across the Pacific Ocean before heading west.

Sky's Santa Tracker works on Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream.

It shows a live map revealing exactly where Father Christmas is on his journey.

Santa’s journey across Sky's world map kicks off on Christmas Eve at 10am.

And it will come to an end on Christmas Day at 11am.

You can unlock it using special voice phrases with your Sky remote.

Here's the full list of voice commands to try:

• Where's Santa?
• Where's Santa Claus?
• Where's Father Christmas?
• Where's Kris Kringle?
• Santa Tracker
• Where’s Santa Tracker?
• Where is Santa right now?
• Follow Santa
• Is Santa coming tonight?

Other ways to track Santa

If you're not a Sky customer, there are other ways you can track Santa's movements on Christmas day.

NORAD - the North American Aerospace Defense Command - has been tracking Santa's Christmas night movements since 1955.

The organisation runs its NORAD Tracks Santa website every year at noradsanta.org.

Google also has its own Santa tracker which has been operation since 2004.

It also has free games to play while you wait.

It can be found at santatracker.google.com.