• Fixed day counts for places you visited twice. If you left a city and came back, the days in between were counted as a stay; now only the days you were actually there count. Trips whose location history is still on your iPhone are corrected automatically. • Towns you only drove or flew past no longer count as cities or regions you visited. The app decides from how long you stayed and the photos you took; when it can't tell, the town stays. • Arriving in a new country is now recorded even without a data connection, for example with roaming off (except near borders and a few other places). City names are added once you're back online. • Fixed a bug where writing a note in an album could remove cities added to that trip afterwards. • Fixed “Auto-link photos by date and place” switching itself back on after you turned it off. • If your records can't be found — for example after moving to a new iPhone — the app now tells you. • Location-derived data such as your home area is now kept out of device backups, like your trip records (turn on “Include in device backup” to include them).

• Fixed a bug where one trip could be recorded as several separate trips. Trips already split are merged automatically on launch. • A bigger map. Zooming and panning are now smooth, and both the world map and each country's map open full screen.

Albums — turn a trip into something you can hand to someone. • Three designs: Film strip, Meridian and Bookmark. • Two ways to bind it — one tall sheet, or a page a day sized to your screen that you swipe through. Saving gives you the one you chose; there's a second button for both. • Photos are picked for you: up to three a day, your favourites first, and no near-duplicate bursts. Tap "Choose photos" to change any of it. Settings are tidier too, with one place to export and fewer switches to think about.

One line inside the app was still saying something the app had already stopped saying everywhere else. The Recording status screen claimed that the places you record "never reach us or any server." That is the same absolute this app publicly walked back last month, and it sat directly above a sentence explaining that coordinates do go to the maps service. Both cannot be true. It now reads the way the Account screen reads: your records stay on this device, there is no account and no server of ours, and the one thing that goes out is a coordinate, sent to the maps service to come back as a place name. The App Store page has been rebuilt as well — new screenshots, a new preview — and it is now available in Korean and Spanish.

You can now share straight from the Map and the Timeline. The poster export used to be buried in Settings. It now opens from the top right of both screens: your filled-in world map with the number of countries, trips and days, as a single image. Purchases and restores now tell you what happened. When the connection was unstable, buying or restoring could leave the screen unchanged with no explanation at all. Now it says why. The purchase button also shows that it is working instead of looking unresponsive.

The privacy page you see when you first open Driftlog contradicted itself. It said your location never reaches anyone, and then, one sentence later, that a coordinate is sent to the maps service to come back as a place name. The second sentence is what actually happens. The wording now says that plainly, in every language. The photo permission text now says up front that Driftlog reads the date and location saved in your photos across your whole library. That is how it rebuilds the trips you took in the past, and you should know it before you tap Allow.

The privacy note inside the app now says exactly what happens. It used to say your location never reaches any outside server. That was not quite true, and it is the kind of thing this app should be the last to get wrong. Your records do stay on this device. The one thing that goes out is a coordinate, sent to Apple's map service, to come back as a place name. Nothing else leaves. The screen now says that. Help in English. If Driftlog is not recording anything, there is now an English support page. It walks you through the three settings behind almost every case: Location set to Always, Precise Location on, and Photos set to All Photos. You can reach it from App Support on this page. A store page that says what the app actually does. The description now explains the photo import properly. Driftlog reads the location already saved inside your photos, so photos taken with camera location switched off are skipped, and the page tells you how to add a location to those and import again. The free and paid parts are spelled out too: your home country is free in full, your first foreign country is free in full, and one purchase opens the rest. No subscription. This version also changes how the app asks for a rating. There is now a “Rate Driftlog” row in Settings, so you can open the review page whenever you feel like it. The app itself only asks after a photo import finishes restoring your past trips, or when your map gains a new country — and only a few times a year at most. If something is not working, write to shiori.sutudio@gmail.com. One person reads that address and answers.

No feature changes since 1.1.0. We rewrote the App Store description so it is clear what the app can and cannot do. • Clarified that trips in your home country (set in the app) are shown in full — regions, cities and dates — without a purchase. • Clarified what photo import needs: photos must contain location data, and Photos access must be set to "All Photos". 1.1.0 greatly improved country detection. If places are still missing, please check that Location Services is set to "Always" with "Precise Location" turned on, then contact us from the support page.

- Greatly improved country detection: islands, coastal towns, border cities, and small countries like Vatican City and Monaco are now recorded correctly - More reliable trip folder export: photos missing from the destination are automatically restored on the next export - New option to write duplicate photos only once, saving storage when a photo belongs to more than one trip - Added a confirmation dialog before deleting the export folder - Stability improvements, including accurate pause reasons during export

■ New: Export trip folders (Premium) Export each trip as its own folder, containing the record and the photos you took on that trip. Save to iCloud Drive, on this iPhone, or an external drive. Large libraries show progress and time remaining, and keep going after you close the app. If it stops partway, the next run picks up where it left off. ■ Improvements ・You can now mark any number of everyday areas — such as a home you 　moved away from. Long-press a city name and choose "This is my 　everyday area": trips around it stop being recorded, and the ones 　already saved are cleared. ・Records whose city name ended up as a country name (for example 　"United States") are now looked up and corrected automatically, along 　with any missing state or prefecture. Nothing for you to do. ■ Fixes ・Fixed some cities going missing when importing a large number of photos. ・Added "Include in device backup" so you can carry your records to a new 　phone (off by default — your records stay on this device). ・Fixed exported photos that could come out incomplete. ・Other fixes to make sure your records are never lost.

We rebuilt how trips at home are recorded. • Fixed the bug that merged every trip in your home country into a single record, which was quietly stopping domestic trips from being imported from your photos. Records that already merged are split back into separate trips with their real dates. • When an import finds nothing, it now tells you why — no location data, taken near home, or already in your diary — and lets you include photos near home with one tap. • Trips at home can be edited just like trips abroad. Tap a region for its own page, edit a single city, or split a merged trip apart. • The home side now matches the world side: from your diary, timeline or map you can reach any region's page, with its map, cities and photos.

Domestic travel is here. Trips at home are now imported from your photos, the regions you've visited fill in on a map, and tapping a city shows that city's photos — just like abroad (everyday life around home is left out; adjustable in Settings). We also greatly reduced countries appearing that you never visited, added trip editing, and deletions now stick for good.

Driftlog now speaks Traditional Chinese. The whole app — including country and region names — follows your device language.

Dark mode is here. Driftlog follows your device automatically, or pick Light/Dark yourself in Account. Plus, a city's photo page can now load more — so trips where you took a lot of photos show everything, in batches.

Your map now colors itself — for free. Every country you've visited lights up, no purchase needed (unlock the dates, cities and photos anytime). Plus: bring your past trips back from your photos, a year-end travel recap, and beautiful cards to share your journeys.

Driftlog now runs natively on iPad — your diary, map, timeline, and passport at full size on the bigger screen. Plus small refinements throughout.

Your travels at home count now, too. Flip the app over to your home country to see the regions you've explored — the prefectures, states, and provinces you passed through, recorded automatically alongside your world map. Plus sharper city and region names, and dozens of small refinements for a smoother, more reliable diary.

Improved place names for recorded cities (e.g. New York boroughs).