Travel is an experimental feature (from 2.7.0). Use it to plan time-critical medications for long-haul trips with your GP or pharmacist. Preview how clocks jump, agree extras or skips with them, then save that trip-only overlay. Medication Timer does not invent a destination dosing plan, and it is not medical advice. This is an early release: expect rough edges, and confirm important doses with your clinician if something looks off.
Medication routines are stored as clock times (for example 8:00 am), not as a fixed worldwide instant. If you open the app after your phone changes timezone, those times would otherwise start meaning 8:00 am in the new place.
The phone names the new city first (for example New York) and asks you to set a travel schedule. That uses the phone timezone, not GPS. You can also open Travel from Profile or Today:
- Choose who is travelling.
- Leave Home (no arrival). Choose each city and set Arrive. Intermediate cities also have Depart. Those times are local to that city (10:00 am in Sydney is Sydney time, 9:00 am in Los Angeles is Los Angeles time). The app shows the real travel time between them. The last stop has no departure. If you delay a time that would land after the next stop, later times move by the same amount. Tap Add city for another stop, or Return home to set when you get back.
- Choose Use local time at the destination (breakfast meds follow the new day) or Keep home times, shifted (the same real-world instant, shown in local clocks).
- Preview the next doses. Clock mode from the previous step still applies. Travel doses open only when a hop needs them: a usual daily or every-few-hours time falls while you are in transit, and the clocks jump by 4 hours or more. Short hops (for example Adelaide to Sydney) stay on clocks only. So do longer hops where no usual time falls in transit. You can still tap Show travel doses to set an extra or skip if a GP or pharmacist asked for one.
On a hop that does need travel doses, same-clock medications share one approach (extra in transit, skip the first clock after you arrive, or keep usual clocks). Tap Show each medication to set a different extra or skip per medication. Show extras and skips to your GP or pharmacist, then save. Medication Timer reminds you at those times for this trip only.
Travel doses are grouped by hop (for example Adelaide to Berlin), then by person and clock (8:00 am meds together, the same way as Today). Weekly, fortnightly, monthly, hourly, and as-needed routines are not included in hop planning. As-needed timers still use real elapsed time. Skip is the first destination clock, not a skip while you are in the air. Lock-screen reminders follow extras and skips you saved. Usual departing-city clocks keep firing until you land. Destination clocks start when you arrive.
On a long haul, destination clocks can skip a usual dose time or bring the next one too soon (for example Australia to the US, where you may land around the same local time you took off). That is why you review the preview with your GP or pharmacist before you save.
Reminder records themselves do not change. When travel ends, times go back to normal. Open Travel from Profile, or tap a trip heading on Today. The trip summary shows who is going, the timezone offset, and clock settings. Tap a row to change it, or tap End travel. If there is no return home time, destination clocks stay on until you tap End travel. You can run more than one trip at a time. A person already on a trip stays locked until that trip ends.
On Today, people on a trip are grouped from home departure. Everyone else is under At home. During transit, Today shows departing-city clocks plus any extra or custom time. After you arrive, it shows destination clocks and hides a skipped first destination reminder.
Shared households
If only some people are on the trip, the parent who stayed home still sees those routines in travel mode, with the destination time and what that is at home. They can mute reminders for travelling people from Travel so destination hours do not wake them.
The travelling parent only gets lock-screen reminders for the people they selected.
The other parent’s phone updates when that app is next open (or already running). As-needed timers still use real elapsed time, not the destination clock.
