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Tap the plus button in either app and write down what the moment deserves to keep, with a photo if you like. Randhawa pins it to where you are and shows it as a gold dot on your map. Bhullar marks its day in gold on the grid and brings it back under the caption when its date comes around again. A memory made in one app appears in both.

You don't need it: everything works on your phone alone. Turn sync on (in Randhawa's menu, or from the memories list in either app) and your dots and memories are kept in your own private iCloud, which we cannot read. Get a new phone, sign into iCloud, and everything comes back. There is no account to create; your Apple Account is the account.

To draw your map. Say yes to the prompt and Randhawa marks a dot each time your phone notices you have gone somewhere, using only the low-power signals iOS gives a sleeping app, plus a dot each time you open it. Choose "While Using" instead and it marks a dot only when you open it. Either way it goes nowhere except your device and, only if you turn on sync, your own iCloud.

The trail is what lets your map keep drawing itself while Randhawa is closed, and since 3.2 it is how the map is meant to be made: the intro explains it and iOS asks you before anything is read. To change it, open the menu in the top corner, choose Trail, and pick "whenever you move", "only when you arrive somewhere", or Off. It needs iOS Location set to "Always"; iOS asks for that itself, asks again later before it becomes permanent, and you can take it back any time in iOS Settings, at which point the trail stops and Randhawa goes back to a dot per open. If you used Randhawa before 3.2, you will see one card offering to turn it on; nothing changes until you say yes.

A cadence is a ceiling, not a schedule. iOS wakes a sleeping app when you move, not on a clock, so Randhawa marks a dot no more often than you asked and only once you have actually gone somewhere. Stay in one place and the trail stays quiet. It uses only the low-power signals iOS provides, so it does not sit running in the background or noticeably cost battery.

Yes. In the Trail screen, choose Forget the trail. Every dot the trail added is deleted from your device, and from your iCloud if sync is on, while the dots you placed by opening the app stay. Erase everything, in the main menu, still removes all of it.

Since 2.1, swipe the grid sideways to move between scales, and tap any dot that has already happened to open it. Bhullar shows where you were during that stretch of time and what you kept from it. The places come from Randhawa, so they fill in on their own once its map is drawing itself; without that, you will see the places you were when you happened to open Randhawa. A dot that has not happened yet says only "Not yet."

Touch and hold an empty area of your Home Screen until the apps jiggle, tap the + in the corner, and search for Randhawa (the Map widget) or Bhullar (Year in Dots, Day in Dots, and Dots at Any Scale). Bhullar's widgets also fit the Lock Screen: touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, then add one under the clock.

Since 3.2 Randhawa draws the map as ink. Blots are where you stayed; lines join dots that are close together in time and show how you moved; everything is translucent, so places and roads you repeat darken. Today is drawn on top in orange, and the newest dot wears a white ring. Tap a blot to open the place; tap a gold dot to open that memory.

Tap the sparkles button in the top corner to flip between the map and the constellation. Press and slide it up or down to fade the map to anywhere in between. (The Constellation widget was retired in 3.0 in favor of the Map widget; the constellation lives on inside the app.)

Yes. In Randhawa's menu choose Export your map. It writes every dot and memory, photos included, into one file and hands it to the share sheet, so you can AirDrop it, save it to Files, or mail it to yourself. It is your data; take it wherever you like.

Yes. Leap years get 366 dots automatically, and on clock-change days the day truthfully shows 23 or 25 hours.

In Randhawa, open the menu in the top corner and choose Erase everything. That deletes every moment and memory from your device, and from iCloud if sync is on. It cannot be undone.

No. No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no servers of ours. That includes the trail: the dots it places are written to the same file on your phone as the ones you place yourself, and we never see any of them. If you turn on sync, your data lives in your own private iCloud, which we cannot access. Read the privacy policy.