Travel Planning & Maps

The Trip tab (Travel Hub)

Every layout has a "Trip" tab at the bottom, which opens the "Travel Hub". From top to bottom:

1. Current or next trip: shows "Ongoing · Day N of M" or "N days to go", your next plan, and quick actions for "Itinerary", "Passes", "Add an entry", and "Packing".
2. Passes: your booking passes in a horizontal row, viewable even offline; "All" at the top right shows every booking. If some bookings aren't assigned to a trip, you'll see "Bookings Without a Trip (N)".
3. My trips: your trips, segmented into "Upcoming / Planning / Ended".
4. Quick tools: 8 tools by default — Transit Planner, Trip Planner, Currency & units, Expenses, Luggage, Documents, Common phrases and Holiday calendar. You can reorder, add or remove them (up to 12). "All tools" at the top right lists every tool (see Travel Tools).

At the top right are "Import" and "+" (create a new trip). If you don't have any trips yet, you'll see "Create Trip" and "Import".

Trip features don't require signing in. Data is stored on this device and syncs through your iCloud (see "iCloud Sync" in Getting Started).

Creating a new trip

1. On the "Trip" tab, tap "+" at the top right to open "Create a new trip".
2. Tap to choose a cover icon (emoji), and enter a name, dates (start / end), and a budget (optional).
3. Under "How to start", choose one:
   • Apply template: next, pick a trip template (see "Trip templates" below).
   • Create manually: create an empty trip right away.
   • Import order: paste the text of a hotel, flight, or other confirmation email and let AI turn it into bookings (sign-in required).

How imported orders are handled

The pasted text is sent to the YUCTS server for AI parsing and is not stored. If you don't want to send names or booking codes, delete them from the text first. There's a daily import limit; when you reach it, the app suggests trying again tomorrow or upgrading to Yucts Plus.

Import Travel Info

On the "Trip" tab, tap "Import" at the top right, or choose "Import Travel Info" from "⋯" on a trip page:

Method	Description
Scan Boarding Pass	Scan the boarding pass barcode with your camera (PDF417, QR, Aztec)
From Photos	Recognize details from screenshots or photos
PDF itinerary	Recognize text from a PDF
Calendar (ICS)	Import flights and stays from a calendar file
Enter Flight Manually	Fill in flight details yourself

• Barcodes, booking codes, and passenger names are parsed only on this device — not uploaded or logged — and you confirm everything before it's saved.
• Files can be up to 30 MB. When a duplicate booking is detected, choose "Update the Existing One" or "Keep Both".
• Scanning a boarding pass requires camera permission and a supported device.

The trip page

Tap any trip under "My trips" to open it. There are six tabs at the top:

Tab	Contents
Overview	Progress; number of places, bookings, and companions; what's "Up Next" ("Full Itinerary"); local holidays; spending and budget; packing and documents
Itinerary	Daily itinerary timeline (see below)
Bookings	This trip's bookings (see "Bookings" below)
Expenses	Trip expenses (see Travel Records & Documents)
List	Segmented into "Luggage / Shopping"
More	"People & Memories": Companions & Collaboration, Trip Diary, Photos; "Passes & Documents": Pass wallet, Documents; "Review & Share": Spending Across All Trips, Departure Reminders, Trip recap, Share itinerary

At the top right:

• Person icon: opens the itinerary share link page.
• ⋯ menu: "Edit Trip", "Map & places", "Import Travel Info", "Share itinerary", "Delete trip".

Deleting a trip

When you delete a trip, the trip and its expenses, photos, companions, and bookings are removed from every device signed in to the same Apple ID; its places, diary entries, shopping items, and luggage items move to "Uncategorized".

Local holidays

The "Local holidays" card in the trip's "Overview" lists the public holidays and long weekends at your destination during the trip (Japan and Taiwan are supported for now):

• Each region gets a one-line summary, such as how many days your trip overlaps a long weekend in Japan, or how many days are public holidays in Taiwan. Tap "See full analysis" for holiday names and official names, long-weekend dates, weekends, make-up workdays, seasonal events, and the data source and update time.
• Which country you're in on each day is worked out from the time zones set on your places and bookings. If that isn't possible, you can set a destination for the trip (the app suggests one from your plans but never applies it automatically).
• When your trip meets a public holiday or long weekend, you'll see: "Holidays can affect demand for transportation and accommodation. We recommend checking ahead."
• Dates are checked as you edit the trip. If there's no start or end date, the end is before the start, or the trip is longer than 366 days, the app explains why it can't check.
• Offline, the app uses holiday data downloaded earlier and shows when it was downloaded. For the whole year, see "Holiday calendar" in Travel Tools.

Daily itinerary and transport

The "Itinerary" tab of a trip page:

• Use the date row at the top to switch days (days before the start date are marked "Before"); below it are that day's map and timeline.
• The "Attractions", "Transport", and "Lodging" buttons at the bottom add items.
• Long-press and drag to reorder places that don't have a set time; items without a time are placed at the end of the day.
• Between two neighboring places, an estimated travel time is shown. Tap it to change the transport mode: Auto, Drive, Taxi, Walk, Public transit, Rail / high-speed rail, Flight, Others — or enter the minutes yourself.

How travel times are estimated

Only Drive, Taxi, Walk, and Public transit are estimated with Apple Maps; enter times for other modes yourself. When offline, the last estimate is shown. Transport modes are stored on this device only and don't sync.

Search Taiwan trains

When the transport mode between two neighboring places is "Public transit" or "Rail / high-speed rail" and the following conditions are met, "Search Taiwan trains" appears below the transport row:

• Both places are in the Taiwan time zone and both have a location.
• The departure place has a date within 8 days from today (past trains aren't searched).
• In-app search in Transit Planner is available.

You can also tap the transport row and, under "Taiwan trains", tap "Search trains" (this saves the transport mode first, then opens the search). If the conditions aren't met, the reason is shown, for example "Both ends aren't in Taiwan; transit search outside Taiwan is coming soon."

1. Choose stations (step 1 of 2): stations within 1.5 km of each place are listed (by straight-line distance; walking time isn't estimated). Choose a boarding station and an alighting station, or tap "Search other stations". You choose the stations — the app doesn't decide for you.
2. Choose a train (step 2 of 2): the time defaults to the departure place's time (Taiwan time, and you can change it; if the place has no time, use "Choose time"). You can also switch to arriving by the next place's time. Tap "Search" to see up to 5 trains.
3. Tap "Use this train". You'll see "Added “…” to this leg".

The chosen train appears below the transport row: train type and number, departure and arrival times, fare, the "Scheduled" label, the boarding and alighting stations (walking at either end isn't included) and when you searched. Tap the train to see its stops and today's delays, or tap "Search Again" or "Clear" (after clearing, you can tap "Undo"). If the place's date changes, you'll see "The place's date has changed — this train may no longer apply".

• The chosen train (train number, stations, times, fare and search time) is saved only on this device and isn't searched again automatically.
• When a train is chosen, travel times estimated by Apple Maps are labeled "(Apple Maps, door to door)" and shown alongside the station-to-station train.
• When searching, the locations of the two places (about 100 m precision) are sent to YUCTS to find stations; they aren't stored.

If "Search Taiwan trains" doesn't appear but both places are in Taiwan and the transport mode isn't Drive, Taxi or Walk, the transport row shows "Look up this leg on the transit site", which opens the YUCTS Transit website in the app to look up a route between the two places. For other Transit Planner features, see "Transit Planner" in Travel Tools.

Places

When you add or edit a place, you can set:

• Location Name (searchable) and its position on the map.
• Type: lodging / attractions / food / shopping / temples & shrines / nature / transport / others.
• Date, plus the "Set a time" switch and time zone.
• Trip, Completed, and Note.

Map & places

On a trip page, tap "⋯" → "Map & places" to organize places on a map:

• View modes: List / Calendar / Map; filter with date buttons: "All / Day N / Unscheduled".
• Tap "⊕" at the top right to add a place.
• Swipe left to delete or edit, swipe right to mark complete; drag to reorder in edit mode; long-press to "Move to a day" or "Move to unscheduled".
• The credit card icon at the top right opens expenses; the photo icon opens trip photos.
• "⋯" at the top right: start or end the Live Activity, "Export Trip (JSON)", and "Export PDF (printable)". Once the file is ready, tap "Share Trip File" or "Share PDF" to save or send it.

Trip Planner (trip list)

"All tools" → "Trip Planner" lists all your trips:

• The "⊕" menu at the top right: "New Trip" or "Import itinerary (JSON / GPX / KML)".
• Long-press a trip to "Edit", "Duplicate Plan" (create an alternative version), or "Delete".
• Tap a trip to open its "Map & places" page.

Trip templates

Open "All tools" → "Template" (page title "Trip Templates"), or choose "Apply template" when creating a new trip. There are 5 built-in templates:

• 7-day Japan classic (Tokyo + Kyoto + Osaka)
• 3-day Tainan food tour
• 5-day Korea two-city trip (Seoul + Busan)
• 4-day Thailand discovery (Bangkok + Ayutthaya)
• 3-day Hong Kong shopping

Tap "Apply" to preview each day's places, then tap "Create Trip". The template uses the name and dates you entered on the create screen; if you didn't enter dates, it starts today.

Saved locations and weather

"All tools" → "Location / Weather" (page title "Saved Locations"):

• "+" at the top right searches for cities or landmarks on the map, or adds them from "Popular Destinations".
• Swipe right to "Add to trip"; swipe left to "Delete".
• Tap a location to see the local weather (see Travel Tools).

Bookings

Where to find them: the "Bookings" tab of a trip page, "All tools" → "Orders", or "Passes" → "All" in the Travel Hub.

• Types (8): flight, lodging, rail, car rental, activity, transport, insurance, other.
• Status: confirmed / paid / payment pending / cancelled / used.
• A booking can have "No Trip"; the list switches between "No Trip" and "All Trips".
• For flights, you can enter the airline, flight number, airports, and each airport's local time; you're warned right away if the arrival is earlier than the departure. Seat, cabin class, e-ticket, terminal, gate, and baggage details are currently stored on this device only.
• Long-press a booking card to delete it, or set "Remind me the day before" (you're notified at the same time on the previous day, in the booking's local time zone).
• Bookings with a confirmation code can be turned into offline passes in "Pass wallet" (see Travel Records & Documents).

Companions and cloud collaboration

Where to find it: trip page "More" → "Companions & Collaboration" (page title "Travel companions"), or "All tools" → "Traveling together".

Travel companions (local cost sharing)

• Add companions with a name, email, role, and cost-sharing ratio (0–100%, in 5% steps). After adding or editing, shares are split evenly again automatically; adjust them manually if needed. We recommend a total of 100%.
• "Settle up (who owes whom)" calculates the fewest transfers needed (see Travel Records & Documents).
• The companion list and cost splits only sync through iCloud to your own devices (same Apple ID); they aren't shared with anyone else.

Cloud collaboration (co-editing, sign-in required)

1. Tap "Turn on cloud collaboration" (when signed out, you'll see "Sign in to enable companion collaboration").
2. Choose "Invitee permissions": can edit / add only / view only.
3. Tap "Generate invite link" → "Share invite link" and send it to your companions. Invitees need to install the app and sign in to a YUCTS account. Opening the invite link first shows a "Trip Invite" screen in the app with their permission, and they join only after tapping "Join This Trip" (or "Not Now"). If the same trip is already on that device, the app asks first.
4. The member list shows the number of cloud members and each person's permission (owner / can edit / add only / view only). With "can edit", members can add and change plans and expenses; with "add only", they can add plans and expenses but not change other people's; with "view only", they can see the trip but not change it. The owner can remove a member from the trip or cancel an invite that hasn't been used yet.
5. Members can "Leave This Trip"; what's already on their phone is kept.
6. After you tap "Stop collaborating", no member can sync changes to this trip anymore; content already on each person's phone is kept.

Only after collaboration is turned on does that trip's content sync to the YUCTS cloud service.

Departure reminders

"All tools" → "Reminder", or trip page "More" → "Departure Reminders":

• Once you turn on reminders for a trip, notifications are sent 1 day before departure (at the same time as the start time) and at 08:00 on departure day.
• The list is split into "Upcoming Trips" and "Departed / past trips", with a countdown.
• Requires notification permission, and the trip needs a start date. These are local notifications — no sign-in needed.

Expense stats

"All tools" → "Expense Stats", trip page "More" → "Spending Across All Trips", or the "Expenses" tool in the Travel Hub:

• Four summary tiles: Total spending / Daily Avg / Per person / Largest.
• "Budget Tracking" (tap to set a trip budget) and category budgets (this month / this year / all time, with overspending flagged).
• "Monthly Trend", "Category Share", "Top Spending Trips", and "Insights".

For entering expenses and per-trip charts, see Travel Records & Documents.

The travel map

The travel map lets you browse articles by region. There are two ways in:

• Travel layout: the "Explore" tab → the "Map" segment.
• Other layouts: "Explore by Destination" on Home → "Map" at the top right of the destination directory.

How to use it:

• Tap a region button at the top (the first one is "All") or a pin on the map to switch regions; the article list below updates to match. Use "Filter" and "Clear" to adjust.
• If you've allowed location access, the map starts on your region; otherwise it shows Asia by default. The travel map never asks for location permission on its own.
• The map is for browsing content only; to plan places, use the trip page's "Itinerary" or "Map & places".