Skip to main content

What’s New

A timeline of every TripChronos release — new features, improvements, and fixes.

Version 2.1 Released June 7, 2026 · Import by Date & Big-Trip Performance
New Features

Import Photos by Date

  • Automatically gather the photos you took during a trip’s dates and add them in one step — no more hunting through your camera roll
  • Review everything first and deselect anything you don’t want to include
  • One tap to skip screenshots or photos that have no location
  • Imports run in the background with a progress banner, so you can keep using the app while your photos come in
  • If an import is interrupted, it picks up where it left off the next time you open the app
  • Find it when you create a trip, or anytime from a trip’s add menu under Find by Date
Improvements
  • Photo imports are dramatically faster, especially for large date ranges
  • After you create a trip with photos, you now land right on the trip and watch them stream in
  • Place names and time zones fill in much faster after an import
  • Smoother navigation, scrolling, and photo swiping in trips with thousands of memories
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed crashes that could occur when importing into, or viewing, very large trips
  • Fixed photo swiping occasionally getting stuck between memories
  • Fixed the layout and multi-select on the “Photos Without Location” screen
  • Various performance and stability improvements
Version 2.0 Major Update Plan, Relive, and Share Your Trips
New Features

Trip Video

  • Create shareable travel videos from any trip, plus TripChronos Wrapped-style year-in-review recaps
  • Curated music library with region-based recommendations
  • Dynamic layouts, transitions, and motion styles
  • Customizable captions, intro scenes, and map overview segments
  • Beat-synced slide transitions with adaptive pacing
  • Timeline editor with shot-level preview and reordering
  • 9:16 vertical export optimized for social platforms

World Map Redesign

  • Multi-level navigation: World → Region → Country → City
  • Interactive clustering with drill-down behavior
  • Integrated lifetime travel statistics
  • Improved zooming and navigation performance

Itinerary Planning Overhaul

  • Fully redesigned day-by-day itinerary experience
  • Drag-and-drop stop organization
  • AI-powered features (on-device via Apple Intelligence):
    • Optimize Day
    • Suggested activities per stop
  • Weather displayed per day
  • Walking time between stops
  • Support for day trips, cruise imports, accommodations, and transit
  • Add activities and notes that aren’t tied to a specific stop — just anchor them to a date

Friends and Collaboration

  • Native trip sharing using iCloud collaboration (CloudKit Sharing)
  • Real-time syncing across collaborators
  • Friend system with QR codes, friend codes, and activity feed
  • Ability to manage and revoke access to shared trips

Achievements System

  • 46 unlockable achievements across 7 categories — Countries, Trips, Memories, Geography, Social, Streaks, and Discovery
  • Five tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond
  • Visual unlock animations and progress tracking
  • Integrated with stats and activity

Photo Metadata Enhancements

  • Capture and display altitude and compass direction for photos
  • Improved photo context across memories and postcards

Manual Location Tagging

  • Add locations to photos when missing
  • Drop a pin, search, or paste coordinates
  • Update locations individually or in bulk
  • Improves map accuracy and trip reconstruction

Stats and Insights

  • Drill-down capability:
    • View all photos from a selected city or country
    • Works across multiple trips
  • Trip in Numbers summary for completed trips
  • Improved accuracy and deduplication

Notifications

  • Optional On This Day notifications
  • Surfaces past travel memories on the same date

First-Time Onboarding

  • A four-step intro tour introduces the journal, automatic capture, and travel milestones
  • No permission prompts up front — permissions are requested only when a feature actually needs them
  • Replayable anytime from Settings > Help & Legal > Replay Intro Tour

Widgets and Lock Screen

  • A full set of Home Screen widgets:
    • Trip — pin a specific trip; the Large size includes an embedded map and cover photo
    • Memory — a favorite photo at a glance
    • Travel Dashboard — lifetime stats in one place
    • Countdown — days until your next trip
    • Country Progress — how much of the world you’ve seen
    • On This Day — surface a memory from the same date in past years
    • Capture Streak — daily photo streak at a glance
  • Lock Screen accessory widgets for Trip, Countdown, and Country Progress
  • StandBy support with night-mode dimming
  • Cycle through trips with prev/next arrows on the Trip widget
  • Smart Stack rotation surfaces the right widget at the right time
  • In-app preview gallery to browse every available widget before you add it

Live Activities

  • Active trips appear on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
  • Glance at where you are in your trip without unlocking your phone

Siri Shortcuts

  • Trigger TripChronos from Siri, the Shortcuts app, and the Action Button

Promo and Offer Codes

  • Redeem subscription promo codes and App Store offer codes directly from Settings
Improvements

Memories and Photo Experience

  • Faster scrolling and improved performance
  • Day-by-day location maps within the memories view
  • Swipe between memories within the same trip
  • Bulk actions for delete and save to Photos
  • Improved favorites and search

Maps and Location Accuracy

  • Improved geocoding and location detection
  • Background reprocessing for missing locations
  • Day-by-day timeline filtering on the Trip Map
  • Enhanced visuals and navigation

Weather Enhancements

  • Forecasts for upcoming trips (within 10-day range)
  • Historical weather for trip locations and individual memories

Settings and Preferences

  • Permissions still requested on demand — can now also be manually enabled from the Settings screen
  • Fixed issues with missing permission toggles
  • New temperature preference options:
    • Automatically use device region
    • Override to Fahrenheit or Celsius
  • Clearer guidance when permissions are disabled

Video and Media Engine

  • Faster rendering and preview performance
  • Improved timeline controls and scrubbing
  • More consistent caption handling
  • More reliable export performance

Performance and Stability

  • Improved sync speed and reliability
  • Reduced crashes related to data reads and caching
  • Better handling of large trips and photo libraries
  • Background sync improvements

Itinerary Refinements

  • Trip dates automatically extend when you add transit, cruises, or activities outside the original window
  • Activities now group under the city stop they overlap, so multi-day stops stay organized
  • Smoother cruise visibility — cruises appear in the Travel section and respect their actual sailing dates
  • Activity notes are saved alongside reminders

Import Inbox

  • Smarter routing — imported items land in the right trip based on location, not just date
  • Automatically creates a trip when you import into an empty account
  • Reopen the Inbox manually any time
  • Photo imports detect duplicates and ask before merging

Achievement Unlocks

  • Refined unlock animation with a layered backdrop and retimed sparkle burst

Localization

  • Full coverage across all 12 supported languages, including share screens, profile setup, the itinerary add-plan sheet, transit and accommodation labels, and Wrapped video
  • Improved plurals (“1 day” vs. “3 days”) across the app
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed crashes related to map rendering, thumbnails, and memory data access
  • Fixed video export edge cases
  • Fixed duplicate photo and stats inconsistencies
  • Fixed collaboration sync edge cases
  • Fixed itinerary saving and ordering issues
  • Fixed permissions not enabling correctly from Settings
  • Fixed Add-Cruise occasionally saving silently without confirming
  • Fixed rare cases where cloud sync could overwrite local data with empty values
  • Fixed lost edits when modifying activities mid-sync
Technical Improvements
  • CloudKit sync optimizations — faster, more targeted syncing
  • Improved data deduplication and recovery logic
  • Better handling of partial imports and failed syncs
  • Crash reporting added so issues can be diagnosed and fixed faster
  • Privacy manifests added to meet the latest App Store requirements
  • Accessibility and input handling improvements
Version 1.1 Released April 13, 2026 · Localization and Reliability Update
Improvements
  • Country and city names on the World Map and Stats screens now match your device language
  • Existing memories automatically update in the background after a language change
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the app icon badge did not clear after responding to friend requests or trip invitations

Stay in the loop

Update TripChronos on the App Store to get the latest version.

Open in App Store