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No. Recording, capture, transcription, stats — even sunrise times and the moon phase — all work fully offline. Only map imagery, weather, and iCloud sync need a connection, and they simply catch up when you’re back in coverage.

Less than you’d fear. GPS accuracy has three modes in Settings → GPS accuracy — High, Balanced (the default) and Saver — tuned per activity, and the app automatically steps down when your iPhone enters Low Power Mode. Auto-pause also stops the GPS from working hard while you’re standing still. For all-day travel days, use My Day: it’s designed to sip battery from breakfast to bedtime.

That’s auto-pause: stand still for about 45 seconds and the recording pauses so your averages stay honest. Walk about 25 metres and it resumes on its own. A pause you pressed yourself is never auto-resumed — that one waits for you.

GPS quality varies with terrain — canyons, dense forest and city towers all bounce the signal. Try the High accuracy mode (Settings → GPS accuracy) for twisty trails, and keep the phone somewhere with a clear view of the sky (a backpack strap beats a deep pocket). Gaps usually mean the recording was paused, by you or by auto-pause.

Activities, trips, moments and your profile sync through your private iCloud when the iCloud toggle is on in Settings. The footer under that toggle is the health line — it should read like “42 of 42 items confirmed · 0 queued”. If items stay queued or an error lingers, tap Sync Now first.

Still stuck? Settings → iCloud → Repair Sync re-uploads everything from scratch — no data loss. If you use several devices, run Repair on ONE device at a time and let it finish before touching the next.

Sync fetches when the app comes to the foreground — so first, open the app on the other device and pull it to the front (or tap Sync Now in Settings). Then check the health line on both devices as described above. Both must be signed into the same iCloud account, with iCloud Drive enabled.

It’s a remote and a live display: start, pause and stop from the wrist, live distance/time/altitude in your units, your pick of which activity Start records — and a mic button that sends a voice note to the phone. The iPhone remains the GPS recorder, so the watch barely touches its own battery. Note: watch voice notes need the real devices, and both apps installed.

The magic phrase is: “Add a trail note in MyTripKeeper” — Siri transcribes what you say and pins it where you said it, even with the app closed.

Also: “Start tracking in MyTripKeeper”, and the same for pause, resume and stop. In the Shortcuts app you can go further — like a shortcut that starts a specific activity.

On the CarPlay dashboard, add the MyTripKeeper Tracking Controls widget (edit the CarPlay screen from your iPhone: Settings → General → CarPlay). Starting from the car records a Drive automatically when the phone is on the car’s audio — or pin a specific activity in Settings → Tracking → “Widget starts”.

Settings → Data → Backup My Data produces a single zip with everything — records and media — that you can save to Files, a drive, anywhere. On the new phone, Restore reads it back. If you use iCloud sync, a new phone signed into the same iCloud also fills itself in on first launch, but a backup file is the belt to that suspender.

Always. Any route exports as a standard GPX file; a trip exports whole (with its media) as a single file; the journal is a regular PDF; recap cards and flyby videos are regular images and videos; and the full backup is a plain zip. There’s also an optional setting to mirror every capture into your Apple Photos library, grouped into trip albums.

Open the trip → Share Trip. Invitees join through iCloud sharing — their photos and moments merge into the trip live, and their stuff never mixes into your personal stats. You choose per person: “can edit” or view-only (perfect for the folks following from home). You can see who’s on it, invite more, remove someone, pause incoming updates, or stop sharing anytime.

Not by default — captures live in the app’s own storage (and your backup). If you want them in the Photos library too, turn on Settings → Sharing → “Save photos to Apple Photos”, and optionally “Group into trip albums” to get an album per trip. There’s also a back-fill action to catch up past trips.

Email me with the button below. The two things that make a report gold: what you did/expected/got, and your build number (Settings → About, e.g. “Build 5”).

For sync problems, attach the sync log: Settings → iCloud → Diagnostics → share. If the app crashed, that same Diagnostics screen holds crash reports you can attach too. That usually lets me find it in minutes instead of guesses.

Email me (button below) and I’ll send a TestFlight invitation to your email address. You install Apple’s TestFlight app, accept the invite, and MyTripKeeper appears — updates then show up in TestFlight, and a “What’s New” sheet in the app tells you what changed.

Anything can be deleted in the app — an item, an activity, a trip, or everything. Deletes sync to your other devices; deleting the app removes its on-device data. There’s no account and no server-side copy, so there’s nothing else to ask anyone to erase — see the privacy policy.