Guide · The map

Map styles

Switch between street, topo and satellite maps, add your own map keys, and refresh saved tiles.

Find it in the app

Map screen
Map style

Tap Map style on the right-hand column to change what the map underneath your route looks like. Each theme also picks a style to match (see Themes).

The Map style page with preview cards for OSM Standard, Positron, Dark Matter, OpenTopoMap, Satellite and Topo — The style in use has a check mark. Tap any card to switch.
**Satellite** — aerial photos.
**Topo** — USGS topographic maps, US only.

Street maps
OSM Standard, Positron, Dark Matter. Roads and names, light or dark.
Topographic
OpenTopoMap, USGS Topo, Thunderforest Outdoors. Contour lines, trails and terrain.
Satellite
Esri World Imagery. Real photos of the ground.

Styles that need a key

A few styles from Stadia Maps and MapTiler need a free API key of your own. Scroll down the page: those styles show Add key, and Your keys is where you paste one.

The keyed styles with Add key buttons, and a Your keys list for Stadia Maps, MapTiler, Thunderforest and CARTO — Add key — this style needs a key before it can draw.
**Your keys** — paste a key here. It's kept in this iPhone's Keychain and only sent to that map's provider.
*Built into the app* — these keys come with Yut; nothing to do.

Saved tiles and offline use

Every bit of map you look at is saved on the phone for 90 days, so places you've already seen still draw with no signal.

A Refresh map tiles dialog explaining that saved tiles will be deleted and downloaded again — Refresh tiles clears every saved tile, so the map downloads fresh ones.

Find Refresh map tiles in Tracking options, just above Units.

Updated October 12, 2026 · Still stuck? Ask us