Planning a Trip with Friends

Creating and joining a group

Open My Groups from the menu, or tap the Planning with friends? card on any planning tab.

1. Type a name under Create a Group and tap Create. You become the group's owner and get a six-letter invite code.
2. Share the code — tap Copy on the web or Share on your phone. Friends enter it under Join a Group and they're in.
3. Anyone can leave a group at any time and rejoin later with the same code.

Group chat

• Tap Open Group Chat on a group to send text, take a photo 📷, or pick one from your library 🖼️.
• Tap ⋯ on your own message to edit or delete it. Edited messages show an edited label that anyone can tap to see earlier versions.
• Tap the small ⚑ flag next to someone else's message to report it to the RoadTrippin team.

Group details, chat messages, and chat photos are visible only to the members of that group.

Being a group owner

• Tap manage members to remove someone (they can rejoin with the code) or Make owner to hand the group to another member, who can accept or decline.
• When an owner leaves a group of three or more people, they choose who takes over. In a two-person group, the other member becomes the owner automatically.
• If nobody wants to take over, the owner can let the app hold the group. Any member can then tap Take Ownership to run it again.

Getting help inside the app

A short walkthrough appears the first time you join a group, and another the first time you own one. Tap the ? on the My Groups page, on a group you own, or in a chat header to replay them any time.

Heading out together? Our road trip planning checklist covers what to sort out before you leave.