Journey

Explore the photographs in the current Browse result where they were taken. Journey is available on Mac, iPhone and iPad, including Duo; Apple TV keeps its existing Browse and Present views.

1. Choose a collection and set search or filters in Browse.
2. On Mac, click Journey, the map after Grid, Loupe and Compare in the toolbar. On iPhone and iPad, choose Journey in the view menu.
3. Choose a day in the timeline. The map shows that day’s photographed stops; nearby photographs taken within two hours gather at a stop. Dotted lines connect stops in capture order. They describe a photographic sequence, rather than a recorded travel route. Each stop carries its number in the sequence on the map and below it. A day and a stop each show their highest-rated photograph, and a stop opens its filmstrip at that photograph.
4. Select a marker or a stop below the map to see its photographs. Open a photograph in Loupe. To return to the same day and map position, click Journey again or press esc on Mac, or tap Back to Journey on iPhone and iPad.
5. Choose Grid, Loupe or Compare to leave Journey for that view. On Mac, esc on the map returns to the view from which Journey opened.

Drag the map to move around and pinch to zoom. On Mac, the mouse wheel zooms; trackpad scrolling pans, and Shift-scroll zooms. An external mouse wheel also zooms on iPad. Use Zoom In, Zoom Out, or Fit Journey in the map’s lower corner to adjust the view or return to all of the selected day’s stops.

In a wide window, including iPad, the open iPhone Duo and an iPhone turned sideways, the selected day’s stops sit in a column beside the map, each with its photographs as a grid. Selecting a marker scrolls the column to its stop. Hide Stops in the map’s corner gives the whole window to the map, and Show Stops brings the column back. Folded on a desk, the Duo shows the map in its upper half and the days, stops and photographs in its lower half.

Journey uses the current collection, search and filters, including every matching photograph in a folded set, and leaves out rejected photographs. Dates follow the recorded capture time and the device’s current time zone. Undated holds photographs with no capture date. Without Location shows that day’s photographs with no valid GPS coordinates. They remain available in the filmstrip, and locations are never inferred from nearby photographs. Find on a Track… places them from a route; see Locations from a Track.

Stops carry the name of the place they were photographed at, or of the town when Apple knows no place there, and a day card names the town most of its stops share. Names are looked up from Apple for the chosen day’s stops and kept on this device. To stop sending coordinates, turn off Show Place Names in Settings › General.

New imports retain GPS from Apple Photos or file headers. For older Photos imports, Journey reads available location metadata without requesting image data. For older folder imports, Read Folder Locations reads GPS headers from files in the current result when explicitly pressed. Unavailable files remain without a location and the view reports how many could not be read. This does not complete the separate camera and lens metadata backfill.

The map and filmstrip use cached photograph previews and do not fetch photo originals. Opening a photograph uses Loupe’s existing original-loading policy. The basemap uses Apple Maps and may need an internet connection. Frames does not request the device’s current location. With Library Sync enabled, recorded GPS can travel with complete capture headers; this does not download originals.

See Working in Browse, Loupe and Downloads.