Travel Planning & Map

Travel Hub

On the left of the Travel Hub in the sidebar is "My trips", grouped into Active, Upcoming, Planning, and Memories. On the right is the selected trip's overview, with statistics, what's up next, the trip's "Tools" (itinerary, passes, expenses, luggage, diary, photos, documents, reminders), "Quick tools" (click "Edit" to add, remove, or reorder them), and "All tools".

• In My trips, use ↑ ↓ to select a trip, press Return or double-click to open it, and press Delete to delete it. Control-click a trip to open it, or choose "Edit…", "Share & collaborate…", or "Delete Trip…".
• Trips sync with iPhone and iPad through iCloud. If this Mac doesn't use iCloud, trips are kept only on this Mac.
• Bookings that aren't assigned to a trip appear under "Bookings Without a Trip".

Creating a Trip

1. Click "New trip" (⌘N) in the toolbar.
2. In "Create a new trip", enter a trip name and a cover emoji. Turn on "Set Start Date" and "Set End Date" to choose the departure and return dates, and add a note if you like.
3. Click "Save".

Later, click "Edit" (⌘E) on the trip's Overview to change its name, dates, and note.

Importing Travel Information

Click "Import" (⇧⌘I) in the toolbar, or drag files into the window, to import flights and bookings from:

• Screenshots or photos of boarding passes (PNG, JPEG, HEIC)
• PDFs of mobile boarding passes or confirmation emails
• Calendar files (.ics)

When you import:

• Barcodes and files are read on this Mac only and aren't uploaded, and you confirm the results before anything is saved. Barcodes, booking codes, and passenger names aren't uploaded or logged.
• A boarding pass barcode contains only the month and day, so the year is inferred; check the date. The departure time, terminal, and gate aren't in the barcode, and you can add them later. Flights read from text may have the wrong flight number, airports, or date, so check each one.
• Each event in a calendar file gets a suggested type, which you can change. Events you've already imported are skipped.
• Choose "Add to Trip" or "No Trip", then confirm to save.
• Passenger names aren't saved. Seats, e-ticket numbers, and similar details are kept on this device only.

Click "Import to This Trip" on a trip's Overview to import directly into that trip. On the Itinerary tab, the toolbar also has "Import GPX/KML", which creates a trip and its stops from a GPX or KML file.

Trip Pages

A trip page has six tabs, "Overview", "Itinerary", "Bookings", "Expenses", "List", and "More" (switch with ⌃⌘← / ⌃⌘→), and "Share & collaborate" in the toolbar.

Tab	Contents
Overview	The note, "Edit" (⌘E), "Import to This Trip", "Export PDF", passes, companions and collaboration (bill settlement), and local holidays
Itinerary	A timeline for each day plus a map; see "Itinerary Timeline & Map" below
Bookings	Flights, transport, accommodation, and other bookings; see Travel Records & Documents
Expenses	Total spending, budget, and details (view only on the Mac); see Travel Records & Documents
List	Packing and shopping lists; see Travel Tools
More	All the tools for this trip (People & Memories, Passes & Documents, On the road, Organize), plus "Share & collaborate" and "Delete Trip…"

Overview

• Export PDF: creates a PDF of the trip and shows it in the Finder. The PDF contains only the trip name, dates, expenses, and settlement suggestions, not booking codes.
• Passes: the trip's bookings and passes; click to open a booking. They're available offline too.
• Companions and collaboration: click "Manage companions" to add or edit companions. Once you add companions, Bill Settlement shows what each person should receive or pay, plus suggested transfers. Expenses without a payer aren't included.

Local Holidays

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

• Each region gets a one-line summary, for example whether your trip overlaps a holiday period. Click "See full analysis" for holiday names, the start and end of long weekends, weekends, make-up workdays, and the data source.
• Which country you're in on each day is based on the time zones of your stops and bookings. If that can't be determined, you can set a destination for the trip.
• When the trip meets a public holiday or a long weekend, the app reminds you that holidays may affect transport and accommodation demand.
• Offline, it uses holiday data you downloaded earlier. For a full year of holidays, see "Holiday Calendar" in Travel Tools.

Itinerary Timeline & Map

On the left of the "Itinerary" tab is a timeline by date ("Before", "Day 1", …, "Unscheduled"); on the right is a map. They're linked: select a stop on the timeline and the map moves to it. Use the dates at the top to show just one day.

• Add: click "Attractions" (⌘N) to add a stop, or "Add booking" in the toolbar to add a flight, transport, or accommodation booking.
• Stop details: the place name (searchable) and its position on the map, the type (accommodation, sightseeing, food, shopping, temples and shrines, nature, transport, other), the date and a set time, the trip it belongs to, whether it's done, and a note.
• Keyboard: ↑ ↓ to select, Return or double-click to edit, Delete to delete.
• Order: drag stops that don't have a set time to reorder them or move them to another day. Items without a time go at the end of the day; the app doesn't guess times.
• Control-click menu: Set transport, Mark as done / Mark as not done, Edit, Move to unscheduled, Delete, Adjust Location, and Open in Maps.
• Between stops, the timeline shows how you get from the previous stop and how long it takes.

Sharing & Collaboration

Click "Share & collaborate" in the trip page toolbar:

• Collaboration (sync with companions): requires signing in. When it's on, your companions can edit the trip together on their own devices. If you stop collaborating, no member can sync changes to the trip anymore; what's already on each person's device stays there.
• Export PDF: the same as "Export PDF" on the Overview.

Collaboration limits on the Mac

• If you open a trip invitation link on the Mac, the app asks you to open the same link in the YUCTS app on iPhone or iPad, preview the trip, and then join. The Mac can't join other people's trips yet.
• The Mac doesn't push changes to other members directly. When you edit a shared trip on the Mac, the changes sync to your iPhone or iPad through iCloud first, and then from there to the other members.
• Create trip share links on iPhone or iPad.

Deleting a Trip

Select the trip in My trips and press Delete, or Control-click it, or choose "Delete Trip…" on the More tab.

• Expenses, photos, bookings, and companions are deleted with the trip. Stops, journal entries, shopping and packing lists, and documents are kept as uncategorized.
• The trip is deleted on every device that uses the same Apple Account, and this can't be undone.
• If the trip has active collaboration, or its sync status can't be confirmed, the app tells you why and doesn't delete it.

Check-in Map Wall

On the left of the Check-in Map Wall in the sidebar are the check-in "Activity" feed and "My footprints"; on the right is the map.

Browsing the Feed & Map

• Each card shows who can see it (Public, Friends only, Private), photos, and the number of likes and comments. Click Like to like a check-in, or press and hold to choose another reaction. You can also "Repost" it to the feed with a comment.
• The map shows check-ins as avatars, and nearby check-ins are grouped into a number; click it to zoom in. Switch between "All", "Friends" (only check-ins limited to friends), and "Me" (only your own), and filter by time (All Time, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last year).
• When you select a card, the map moves to it and the details appear on the right: photos, comments, "Who liked this", and More Actions (copy the link; for someone else's check-in, "Report this check-in" or "Block this user"; for your own, "Edit Check-in" or delete it). Press Esc to close the details.
• When you aren't signed in, photos are blurred. Sign in to see photos clearly, check in, like, and comment.

Adding a Check-in (Sign-in Required)

Click "Check in" (⌘N). In "Add pin":

1. Search for a place in "Enter a place name (Apple Maps search)" and choose it, then drag the map so the center pin points at the place.
2. Fill in the "Title" (the place name) and the "Caption" (required).
3. Add photos (optional; the form shows the maximum), or drag image files in.
4. Choose "Who can see": Public, Friends only, or Private.
5. Choose the "Location precision", which decides how much of the location other people see:

Location precision	Other people see
Exact location	The place name and the exact location
City only	Only the city; the place name and exact location aren't shown
Region only	Only the region and country
Hide location	No location at all; the country isn't counted in footprints either

6. Click "Publish".

• Some check-ins are reviewed first and are visible to others only after approval. Until then they're marked "Pending review".
• If publishing fails, your photos are already saved in your album, so you can click "Publish" again to retry.

Photo privacy

• Photos from public check-ins are saved to the "旅遊打卡" album in your forum media. Photos from friends-only and private check-ins are saved to the "旅遊打卡（私人）" album that only you can see (friends can see a friends-only check-in but not the photos in your private album).
• A photo's location (GPS), device serial number, and editing history are never made public. By default, only the camera model and shooting settings are kept; turn on "Don't keep EXIF data" to keep only the orientation and color profile.

My Footprints

When you're signed in, "My footprints" counts the countries, regions, and cities you've checked in from and unlocks travel achievements.