The Passport collects every country and city you have visited, organized by year and built from your timeline.
Every visit belongs to a city, so the passport fills in as you live and travel, with nothing to add by hand.
Open it from the Travel tab. The card at the top carries your name and photo, the countries and cities you have visited, the days you have logged and the miles you have traveled.
In two surveys and two experiments, people said money spent on experiences made them happier than money spent on things, and recalling an experience lifted their mood more than recalling a possession. (Van Boven and Gilovich, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003). Trips keep giving after you get home, and a passport makes them easy to revisit.
How visits become cities and countries
Every visit on your timeline has a location, and every location sits in a city and a country.
The first time you spend time somewhere new, that city joins your passport, and its country joins with it. Any visit counts, so a single afternoon in a new town adds it.
Days are counted as the separate days you had at least one visit there.
Each city has its own page with an illustrated tile, the days you spent there, your visits, the places you went and your history in that city.
Countries collect their cities, and the Travel tab shows all of it on a 3D globe.
Looking back, year by year
Tabs across the passport switch between All time and each year you have tracked.
A year shows every city you went to, so you can flip back through your life the way you would flip through the stamps in a paper passport.
Across six studies, feeling nostalgic raised people's sense that life is meaningful, and the effect came through a stronger feeling of connection to other people. (Routledge et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011). Flipping back through a year of places is an easy way to spend time with good memories and the people in them.
Below the cities, the countries list shows how many you have stamped. Each country has its flag, its number of cities and a bar for the days you spent there, and tapping one opens a page for that country.
Miles traveled
Your passport also adds up every mile you have traveled while tracked, across every mode, from daily walks to long-haul flights.
The total sits on the card next to the days you have logged, and it grows with every trip.
Among 12,338 middle-aged men at high risk of heart disease, those who took more annual vacations had a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause over the next nine years and a 32% lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease. (Gump and Matthews, Psychosomatic Medicine, 2000). Your passport shows how much travel each year held, so a year without time away is easy to spot.
Growing it
There is nothing to maintain. Keep tracking and keep traveling, and the passport fills itself in.
Your map starts on the day you turn Places on, so trips from before then do not appear. Naming the airports on your trips helps Places detect the flights between them.
Free accounts keep the last 30 days. A premium membership keeps every year, so the passport grows for as long as you track.
To show yours to friends, tap Share on the passport. The sharing guide covers what each card shows.