Yucts Travel｜iOS & iPadOSAvailable
Yucts Travel iOS App User Guide
Welcome to the YUCTS iOS app! Travel articles about Japan and Taiwan, trip-planning tools, a traveler forum, and an AI assistant all live in one app. Once installed, the app appears as "Yucts" on your Home Screen, in iOS Settings, and in the widget gallery.
Supported version and requirements
- This guide covers version 3.1.0 (2), currently available on the App Store. For what's new in each version, see Release notes.
- Requires iOS/iPadOS 17.0 or later and runs on iPhone and iPad.
- Some features need a newer system: the iPad sidebar, "Auto-Translate Articles", and "Translate to…" need iOS 18 or later; the AI assistant's "On-device (offline)" mode and "Generate highlights" in Trip recap need iOS 26 or later on a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Each page notes these conditions.
Three layouts
The first time you open the app, page 2 of the welcome tour asks you to choose a layout. Every layout includes the "Trip" tab; they differ in the other tabs and in what Home shows:
| Layout | In-app description | 5 tabs at the bottom |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | Focused on your trips and exploring destinations | Home / Trip / Explore / Forum / Authors |
| Marketing | Deals and content together (classic layout) | Home / Trip / Deals / Forum / Authors |
| Community | Focused on community: feed and chat | Home / Feed / Chat / Forum / Trip |
To switch layouts later: tap the person icon at the top left of Home → "Profile & settings" → "Appearance" → "Layout".
On iPad (iOS 18 or later), wide windows show the same tabs in a sidebar; when Split View makes the window narrow, it switches back to the tab bar automatically.
What each tab contains
| Tab | Contents | Available in |
|---|---|---|
| Home | Sections for travel articles, destinations, forum topics, deals, recommendations and more, adjustable with "Customize Home". The person icon at the top left opens "Profile & settings"; the top right has reading history, search, and notifications (bell). | All layouts |
| Trip | The "Travel Hub": your current or next trip, passes, my trips, and travel tools. | All layouts |
| Explore | Segments at the top: "Region" (destination directory), "Map" (travel map), and "Check in" (the Check-in Wall). | Travel |
| Deals | Deals, discounts, and campaigns from the blog and forum. | Marketing |
| Feed | The latest forum activity. | Community |
| Chat | Your forum private messages (sign-in required). | Community |
| Forum | Boards, topics, posting, replies, reactions, private messages, and more. | All layouts |
| Authors | Author introductions and author pages. | Travel, Marketing |
tip
The Community layout has no "Authors" tab. Turn on the "Author" section in "Customize Home", or find authors with search.
Feature overview
- Home and content — Reading articles, unified search, bookmarks, reading history, offline reading, recommendations, deals (including promo codes), and authors. See Home & Content.
- Personalization — Customize Home sections, color themes (10 free, 5 VIP, plus holiday themes), the app icon (24 festival icons switch in automatically during festivals), and appearance mode. See Getting Started.
- Trips — Create trips; import boarding passes, PDFs, and calendar files; itinerary timeline, bookings, expenses, lists, documents, passes, trip recaps, and sharing, plus Transit Planner for Taiwan (Taiwan Railway, High Speed Rail, metro, light rail and Taiwan transport info). See Travel Planning & Maps, Travel Records & Documents, and Travel Tools.
- Community forum — Boards, topics, replies, reactions, private messages, media, resources, and reporting. See Forum Community.
- AI and translation — The AI Travel Assistant, AI Itinerary / Packing, and article and forum translation. The AI assistant lives under "Trip → All tools". See AI Assistant & Translation.
- Notifications, widgets, and extensions — Push notifications, 6 widgets, Live Activities on the Lock Screen, Siri shortcuts, "Share to YUCTS message" from other apps, and iMessage stickers. See Notifications & Widgets.
- iCloud Sync — Your travel data syncs through your iCloud across devices using the same Apple ID; full-resolution photos require a YUCTS account. See Getting Started.
- Yucts Plus — No Google or other third-party ads, VIP color themes and app icon, changing your username, and more. See Yucts Plus Subscription.
- Help & support — Official announcements, the user guide, system status, contact, and replaying the welcome tour are all under "Profile & settings → Help & support".
Guests and signing in
- Without registering, you can use the app as a guest to read articles, use trip tools, and change most personalization settings.
- Forum interaction, bookmarks, remote push notifications, cloud AI, itinerary share links, cloud collaboration, and buying Yucts Plus require signing in.
- Sign-in options: username and password, Sign in with Apple, "Sign in with Passkey", and "Continue with your YUCTS account". See Account & Sign-in.