====== Travel documents (vault) ======

//[[de:reiseunterlagen|🇩🇪 Deutsche Version]]// · [[en:start|← Overview]]

**Travel documents** is a protected vault for your personal documents: **passport, ID card, driving licence, visa, vaccination certificate, insurance card**. You'll find it under [[en:tools|Tools]] → **Travel documents** (in some app versions still labelled “Reiseunterlagen”).

===== Security =====

  * **Only on your device.** Documents are **not** uploaded to the cloud and not shared with anyone.
  * **Stored encrypted.**
  * **Locked** with Face ID / Touch ID / fingerprint or your device passcode. Without a screen lock set up, the vault stays closed.
  * **Locks automatically** as soon as the app goes to the background (otherwise after 2 minutes).
  * On Android, **screenshots** are blocked inside the vault.
  * The vault is **free** – deliberately without a Premium restriction.

===== Adding a document =====

  - Tap **Add** and choose the type (e.g. passport).
  - **Scan:** the camera shows a frame in ID-card format. Place the document inside (for passports, the zone with the ''<<<'' characters at the bottom in the band) and take the picture.
  - **On-device text recognition** reads name, number, country, issue and expiry date. Nothing is sent to the internet for this.
  - Check, complete, save.

You can also fill in fields by hand and store photos of front and back.

===== Using it on the road =====

  * Documents appear as cards in ID format; numbers are masked until you tap them.
  * **Expiry warning:** if a document expires soon, the home screen shows a notice – without opening the vault. Within a trip Explority also checks whether your passport is valid **6 months beyond the end of the trip** (many countries require this).
  * Filter by holder if you manage documents for your family.

===== Backup and new device =====

Because nothing is in the cloud, **back up your documents yourself**: **Back up** creates a **password-encrypted file** (''.evault''). On the new device import it with the same password. Without the password the file cannot be opened – please remember it.

===== Not available =====

  * In the **browser** (web version) there is no vault.
  * On **Mac/Windows** it works without scanner and text recognition.