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So, in today’s show, I’ll share with you some tips & tricks when travelling with Apple Gear.
I’ll go through the entire process, from preparation to destination and I hope you’ll discover new and interesting apps along the way.
Preparation
- Booking & Planning
- Transport
- Car
- Bus
- Train
- Airplane: Kayak, Airline app
- Accommodation: Trivago, TripAdvisor, AirBNB
- Transport
- Embassy
- Location & opening times
- Visa requirements
- Vaccination
- Data plan provider
- Roaming charges?
- Example: Orange Luxembourg => US included in my data plan on top of most european countries
- Local SIM
- Beware for iMessage, FaceTime & WhatsApp
- OK with secondary device
- Secondary eSim
- iPhone XR, XS & up
- Face ID iPad Pro & newest iPad 7
- Paper copies
- Booking confirmations
- Passport / ID card
- Tech
- Save scanned version of all paper copies in the cloud
- Install & configure a VPN: TunnelBear
- 1.5GB free with tweet
- $10 per month
- $60 per year
- Macs
- Activate FileVault
- Deactivate File Sharing
- Accessories
- Talked about that in episode 35 for iPad
- Apple TV + HDMI cable
- Portable Wi-Fi repeater
- D-Link DAP 1365 (Amazon.com) => Plugs directly into wall socket
- TP Link Nano (Amazon.com)
- PowerBank
- Portable hard drive
- To back up photos off the iPhone/iPad in remote locations
- To locally store movies & music
- SanDisk iExpand (Amazon.com)
- iDiskk 1TB + 10,000 mAh battery (Amazon.com)
- Keyboard case for iPad
- Yoozon for iPad 5, iPad 6 & iPad Air 1Â (Amazon.com)
- Brydge
- Bluetooth mouse for iPad running iOS 13
- Headphones
- In-ear vs. over the ear
- Passive noise blocking vs. active noise cancelling
- Newest AirPods Pro
- Beats Solo Pro
Day before
- Backup all your devices => Cloud + Local when possible
- Charge all your devices & accessories
- Electronic check-in: hotel, flight
- Tip about online boarding: If you have luggages to drop off, airport staff can print physical boarding passes
- Add as much stuff to Wallet as possible
- Flight tickets
- Event tickets
- Apple Pay
- Download as much multimedia content as possible
- Music, Podcasts, Audiobooks
- Videos: Amazon Prime, Netflix
- Download all the necessary apps
- Transportation
- Accommodation
- Tip for Google Maps: Possible to download data over Wi-Fi for defined region
- Download a local copy of the most important files on your iPhone/iPad
- Avoid iCloud Drive unless Keynote or Pages or Numbers
- Check the weather at your destination: AccuWeather
Travel day
- Turn off devices that you won’t use
- On main iPhone
- Turn off Cellular Data usage for most apps, including Photos
- Turn off “Roaming” if needed
- Make screenshot of data usage
- Reset data usage statistics
- 1Password travel mode
- Some vaults can be temporarily deactivated
- Only for 1Password subscriptions
- Turn off biometric authentication to unlock the iPhone
- Emergency SOS
- Settings > Face ID & Code > Unlock
- Worst case: Reset to factory settings then only add necessary contacts & e-mail accounts
- Activate VPN when connecting to free Wi-Fi (Airport, Motorway restaurants, Hotels, …)
At destination
- If needed: restore from iCloud backup over Wi-Fi
- If needed: Activate eSim
- Revise app cellular data usage