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“How many countries have I actually been to?” “Where did my old trips go?” These pages are about getting that answer out of the phone you already have. Free and built-in methods come first, and an app is only mentioned where an app is needed. I make Driftlog, a travel log app. Where a page mentions it, the page says so.
The Photos map, Significant Locations, Apple Maps Visited Places, Google Maps Timeline and automatic logging apps, side by side: what each one keeps, what it loses, and for how long.
Usually it is not a setting. The feature is offered in 32 countries and regions, and no EU member state is among them. Apple's own list, and what to use instead.
A photo taken with location on is already a travel record. Three free ways to read it, from the Photos app to one command line, and where each one goes wrong.
Timeline no longer opens on a computer, but it can still be exported from the phone as one file. How to export it, and how to turn it into a list of countries without uploading it.
UN member states, the traveller clubs' lists, and the places where they disagree. Whether a layover counts, and how to pick one rule and keep to it.
About these guides. Steps and numbers are checked against the official pages from Apple, Google, the United Nations and the organisations named, and each page lists its sources with the date they were read. Menu names change. If a step no longer matches your phone, write to shiori.sutudio@gmail.com and I will fix the page and change the date.