This update brings Ride along, a new way of searching the map and a redesigned Design & Audio screen. RIDE ALONG • See a route before you go: it rolls by as scenery, with the real height, the gradient at that point and your speed. Find it under Elevation profile: "Ride along the elevation". • Start, pause, jump back or drag along the route bar — from real time (×1) to a hundred times faster. • Choose how you travel: Wheelchair, Handbike or bike, Walking or Running, and your pace on the flat. Uphill is slower, just as in the estimated time. • Four sceneries (Polder, Forest, Simple, High contrast), gradient colours on the road, hectometre posts and, if you like, spoken gradients — the same ones navigation announces. • Elevation profile now comes straight after Route in the route details. SEARCH WHAT’S IN VIEW • The map now searches what you see: pan or zoom, and the list shows the places in view. Every place is on the map, grouped together; the list shows the nearest 200. • Range: show only places within 500 m, 1, 2, 5 or 10 km of the crosshair. The map zooms to that circle, and the circle moves along when you pan. • Prefer a fixed search radius? Turn off Search what’s in view under Settings ▸ Search radius. You pick the distance there from the same steps, and Show circle works in both modes. MAP AND LIST • The crosshair always sits in the middle of the visible part of the map, and a selected place stays in view above the list. • Map and list stay in step when you pick a place, on iPad too. • The location button brings you into view in one smooth movement. • Tapping a map button no longer also opens the place name underneath it. • Places stay on the map while loading, and loading is faster. DESIGN • Appearance (Light, Dark, System), Map style and Pocket mode brightness each have their own screen with a preview, under Settings ▸ Design & Audio. • Home Address shows your home on a small map. ON THE WAY • During a guided ride, What’s around me switches on by itself, only for places along the route. • Follow me: see how many of the 5 places are in use, and make a new follow link without stopping your ride. • Trial, off by default: roundabouts and street names, and surface and obstacles, in the guidance of Direct2Go routes.

This update is about the list beside the map, which sometimes lagged behind what you did — and about your route, which now stays put. • Your route is remembered. Close the app with a route open and it is back on the map next time you start, with "My routes" open. Close the route yourself and it does not come back. • Selecting a route now also loads the places around it. Picking a route from "My routes", importing a GPX or using the route button moved the map, but left the list on the old area. • Opening a place no longer reshuffles the list. The map's move to that place was read as you panning, so it searched again — and on closing, the place sat at the top at 0 metres with every distance around it changed. • After you close a place, the highlighted row stays in view, even if the list was rebuilt in the meantime or comes back at a different height. • The "My Location" button now always refreshes the list, returns it to the top and leaves no stale highlight behind. • Opening a place switches off location following, so the location button no longer looks active while the map is looking somewhere else. • The route button on the map no longer looks larger than the buttons next to it once a route is loaded.

• Without internet. AEDs and toilets now live on your iPhone. Find AED and Find toilet answer even without a connection and tell you the date of the data. Under Settings → Offline data the app keeps them current every day (only with internet), you can download any other category, see how much space it takes and switch AEDs or toilets off if you prefer. The map background itself still needs internet. • A new place page. Four tabs: About, Facilities, Hours and Ratings. Tap a tab and the panel moves with you; About takes you back to the standard view. • Opening hours with live status: "Open now until 17:30", "Closes in 25 min" or "Opens tomorrow at 09:00". The whole week sits in a tidy table, public holidays get a warning and remarks like "by appointment" appear under Please note. • Ratings like the App Store: a large average, a bar per star and the count. You can see them without signing in. • New category: Train Station. • Navigation: Direct2Go no longer remembers your choice between Apple Maps and Google Maps and asks every time (only when Google Maps is installed). "Home" asks now too, and picks walking or driving by distance. • Calmer and bigger: buttons are 48 points tall with the same corners everywhere, the detail panel is more compact and the offline message fits on two lines. Address and opening hours are easier to read. • Fixed: 's-Hertogenbosch and other towns with a hyphen never found their parking policy and showed a "Data error". Going from Dark back to Automatic left the app dark. Opening a website does more than before and tells you when an address is wrong. • User guide: a new part about getting around without internet, and you can now search the guide.

• Choose your own voice. Under Design & Audio → Voice you now find every voice your device has for your language. Tap one and you hear a sample sentence straight away. "Automatic" shows which voice the app picks by itself. Enhanced and Premium voices are downloaded in Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices. • That voice is used for everything the app says: turns along a route and "Toilet — at 2 o'clock — 80 m" alike. Delete the voice or switch language, and Direct2Go picks the best other voice by itself. Never silence. • Voice and speaking speed no longer sit behind the Hands-free navigation switch; they are under "Design & Audio" (formerly "Design"). So if you only use "What's around me", you can reach them too. • Easier to read: address, opening hours and distance in the list of places are darker in light mode and lighter in dark mode. They also stay readable over the satellite map. • New category: Healthcare Shop. • The On-screen time you choose under "What's around me" now applies to all of those alerts, including the answers to Find AED, Find toilet and Find disabled parking. Note: AED alerts used to stay until you dismissed them. They now disappear after your chosen time (5 seconds by default). To keep the old behaviour, choose "Until I dismiss". • Fixed: "What's around me" went silent in pocket mode. With the screen locked and the phone in your pocket, the alerts are back. • Fixed: switching from Dark back to System kept the app dark until a restart. It now changes straight away. • Website: a web address saved without "https://" now opens. If the saved address is incomplete, the app tells you instead of doing nothing, and on a place you can edit it takes you straight to Edit. • Call and Rate Direct2Go open more directly. If the App Store link fails, the review page opens in the browser.

• "What's around me" reworked: switching category or changing the alert distance triggers a fresh announcement right away, the distance now goes up to 500 metres, and every place is announced once even at cycling or driving speed. • One choice for the audible alert: Sound, Speech or Silent. Vibration stays a separate switch and is now reliable, including in the Silent setting. • Alerts now name only the category and the distance ("Toilet — 80 m"). • New AED category, plus a Defibrillator feature for places that have one. Press and hold the app icon for "Find AED": the app names the nearest registered AED. With Speech on, "AED" is pronounced "defibrillator". The answer now ends with "Call for help first", and an AED's detail screen opens with the same reminder: calling comes before fetching. If the nearest one is over 500 m away the alert adds "That is far" — 500 m away is a kilometre on foot. If none was found, the text names the radius searched instead of saying "nearby". The spoken answer repeats once, and is dropped the moment you leave the app to call. An AED's detail screen now carries a "Call 112" button — only in countries where 112 is the official number; iPhone asks you to confirm before dialling. • New Police Station category. The amusement-park category was renamed in Dutch. • Voice: the app now automatically uses the best voice installed on your iPhone (Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content). New speech rate under Settings → Route guidance → Voice; it also applies to proximity alerts. • The standard map is sharp and high-contrast again. If you prefer the toned-down look, turn on "Muted map" under Display. • Faster start: pins appear sooner after a cold launch. • iPad: the detail panel is shorter and can be dragged in height; the route button responds to a single tap. • A notification that does not fit on one line now expands by itself. • The counter shows "50+" when there are more places than the app loads at once. • Various reliability, privacy and error-handling improvements, including a GPX with broken elevation data no longer crashing the app.

What's new in 26.9.92 • New — Live distance and direction: in the results list, the distance to each place now updates as you move, and a compass arrow points the real-world way to walk there. The same live distance and arrow now appear on a place's detail card too. • Improved — Simpler parking info: the accessible-parking screen is cleaner and easier to scan. It shows the town, a direct button to the municipality's official parking website, and the ParkerenPlus app information where it applies. • Improved: the map now opens straight to your last location, without the brief jump at startup. • Improved: you're notified right away with a short message the moment your internet connection drops. • Fixed: after a search, closing and reopening the app now brings you back to the place you were viewing instead of jumping to your current location. The proximity alert stays quiet until you return to your own location. • Various bug fixes and polish — including a slightly brighter pocket mode and a clearer category selector. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

What's new in 26.9.91 • New — Proximity alert: turn it on to be warned the moment you come close to a place of the category you're browsing on the map. Set how near with a distance slider, and add an optional sound, vibration, and a spoken announcement that reads the alert aloud in your language. Direct2Go follows your location automatically and, when you open the app, takes you straight to the nearest matching place. The alert works while the app is open. • New — Pocket mode: a hands-free way to use the alert on the move. Press and hold the map for about a second, then slip your phone into a pocket or bag — the screen darkens and locks so nothing happens by accident, while the alert keeps warning you underneath (banner, sound, vibration and the spoken announcement all keep working because the app stays open). A big clock and the live alert status stay glanceable; press and hold for 2.5 seconds to unlock — pocket movement won't unlock it by accident, and VoiceOver users get a direct "Turn off pocket mode" action. • Improved: the Home button now sits beside the microphone as its own button — it steps aside while you type a search and returns as soon as you're done. • New: helpful one-time tips — a pointer to the manual on first launch, swipe-to-rate on the stars, a hint to widen your search distance when nothing is found, and discovering voice search. • Improved: editing an existing location now asks you to sign in with Apple first, protecting everyone's contributions; after signing in, your edit is saved automatically. • Improved: clearer messages in your own language whenever something goes wrong — including a retry option on the donation screen when you're offline. • Accessibility: banners are easier to read and dismiss, stars and labels follow your text size, larger tap targets, and animations respect Reduce Motion. • Various bug fixes and polish. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

The help button now includes text for extra clarity. The help/manual has also been updated, and Parking Plus detection has been added to accessible parking. Small bugs have been fixed.

What's new New: pull a selected result up from the list to reveal more details about that location — opening hours, accessibility info and more, all in one swipe. Clearer manual: we've improved the wording and structure so answers are easier to find and understand. And small bug fixes and polish throughout. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

What's new in 26.9.6 • New: Home Screen widget — launch Direct2Go straight into the actions you use most, including a "Home" tile that starts navigation home in a single tap. • New: Home button in the search bar — go to your home address instantly, without typing it again. • New: toggle AI search on or off right from the search bar with the magnifying glass icon. • Thousands of new locations across many different categories added to the database. • Various bug fixes and polish. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

What's new in 26.9.5 • Refreshed action buttons in the location details — a cleaner design with clearer, easier-to-recognize icons. • Updated manual: clearer explanations and easier to find your way around. • Improved security for community-submitted locations. • Minor bug fixes and polish. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

What's new in 26.9.4 • New categories added! And picking them is easier than ever: tap the locations info bar under the search field, then press and hold a category and scroll through the list to choose the one you want. • Much smarter AI search — it now understands what you're looking for far better and returns more relevant results. • Don't forget: you can also search by voice — just tap the microphone and speak your request. • Smarter voice search in English (soon), German, Dutch and French — dictate a full sentence, Direct2Go understands it. • New: pin clustering keeps the map tidy. From far away you see a single dot with "25", for example. Zoom in and that group splits into individual pins. • New: search inside the manual — find the answer to your question instantly, without scrolling. • Updated manual: now explains the home button and how to navigate on the map, plus several other important topics. • New: you're automatically notified as soon as a new version of Direct2Go is available in the App Store. • New: today's opening hours are now shown in the place list and the location details, wherever they're available. • More readable map during search: category pins remain visible and only your selected result is highlighted. • Map settings reorganized: map type and POI toggle now have their own sections, with automatic POI hiding in Hybrid mode. • Smoother loadings in place list — the number of results matches what you see, and the indicator appears and disappears without flickering. • Minor bugs fixed. • And fixes and polish throughout the map and search experience. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

What's new in 26.9.3 • New categories added! And picking them is easier than ever: tap the locations info bar under the search field, then press and hold a category and scroll through the list to choose the one you want. • Thousands of new locations added — not only accessible toilets and disabled (GPK) parking spaces, but also hospitals, general practitioners, pharmacies, dentists, libraries, museums, supermarkets, hotels, veterinarians and much more. • Much smarter AI search — it now understands what you're looking for far better and returns more relevant results. • Don't forget: you can also search by voice — just tap the microphone and speak your request. • Smarter voice search in English (soon), German, Dutch and French — dictate a full sentence, Direct2Go understands it. • New: pin clustering keeps the map tidy. From far away you see a single dot with "25", for example. Zoom in and that group splits into individual pins. • New: search inside the manual — find the answer to your question instantly, without scrolling. • Updated manual: now explains the home button and how to navigate on the map, plus several other important topics. • New: you're automatically notified as soon as a new version of Direct2Go is available in the App Store. • New: today's opening hours are now shown in the place list and the location details, wherever they're available. • More readable map during search: category pins remain visible and only your selected result is highlighted. • Map settings reorganized: map type and POI toggle now have their own sections, with automatic POI hiding in Hybrid mode. • Smoother loadings in place list — the number of results matches what you see, and the indicator appears and disappears without flickering. • And fixes and polish throughout the map and search experience. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

What’s New in Direct2Go ## See at a glance which pin belongs to which location Next to each name in the list, there is now a small icon that matches the corresponding pin on the map. No more searching when you view the list alongside the map — you can immediately see which result belongs to which marker. The icons for the address and opening hours have also been made slightly larger so everything aligns neatly. ## Faster access to the right category Press and hold a category arrow in the carousel to open the full search menu with all categories directly. Previously, this was only possible via the All button at the very beginning of the row — now the menu is available from every category. ## Better zooming when adding or editing a location The satellite map used to place a location now supports pinch to zoom in and out. This makes it easier to check the exact position of an entrance, toilet or parking space more accurately than before. ## One tap back to the original location The small round button at the bottom right of the edit map has been replaced with a clearly labelled Cancel button. Tap it and the location is restored to where it was when you opened the form — useful if you moved too far or selected the wrong position. ## Clearer titles and buttons when adding or editing * At the top of the form, you now see Add Location or Edit Location, depending on what you are doing. * The green action button at the bottom is shorter and more direct: Add instead of the broader Save. ## New look for selection sheets The sheets where you choose a category or facility now have the same look as the category menu on the main map. There is no unnecessary title bar or close button anymore — simply swipe the sheet down to close it. ## Microphone remains available after editing Previously, the microphone button on the main map could sometimes remain greyed out after adding or editing a location. This has been fixed: the microphone works again immediately after closing the form. ## Updated About This App page The description of what Direct2Go is and does has been expanded and clarified. The legal Disclaimer now has its own section, keeping the page organised and making important information easier to find.

What's new in 26.9.0 • Smarter voice search in English (soon), German, Dutch and French — dictate a full sentence, Direct2Go understands it. • New: pin clustering keeps the map tidy. From far away you see a single dot with "25", for example. Zoom in and that group splits into individual pins. • New: search inside the manual — find the answer to your question instantly, without scrolling. • New: you're automatically notified as soon as a new version of Direct2Go is available in the App Store. • More readable map during search: category pins remain visible and only your selected result is highlighted. • Map settings reorganized: map type and POI toggle now have their own sections, with automatic POI hiding in Hybrid mode. • Smoother loadings in place list — the number of results matches what you see, and the indicator appears and disappears without flickering. • "Send diagnostics" in Settings generates a clear, shareable report (device info, app version, recent logs) to attach to your feedback. • And fixes and polish throughout the map and search experience. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

What's new in 26.8.9 • Smarter voice search in English (soon), German, Dutch and French — dictate a full sentence, Direct2Go understands it. • More readable map during search: category pins remain visible and only your selected result is highlighted. • Map settings reorganized: map type and POI toggle now have their own sections, with automatic POI hiding in Hybrid mode. • Smoother loadings in place list — the number of results matches what you see, and the indicator appears and disappears without flickering. • New: "Send diagnostics" in Settings generates a clear, shareable report (device info, app version, recent logs) to attach to your feedback. • And fixes and polish throughout the map and search experience. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

• Smarter voice search in Dutch, English, and German — speak a full sentence naturally and Direct2Go gets it right. • Cleaner map while you search: category pins stay visible and only your selected result is highlighted. • Map settings reorganized: map type and the Points of Interest toggle now have their own clearly explained sections, with POI hidden automatically in Hybrid mode. • Smoother loading in the places list — the result count matches what you actually see, and the spinner appears and clears without flicker. • New: Send Diagnostics in Settings generates a clear, shareable report (device info, app version, recent logs) you can attach to feedback. • Plus fixes and polish across the map and search experience. Thanks for using Direct2Go!

This version introduces voice search, making it easier to find places using speech input. We also expanded the in-app help/manual to provide clearer guidance and support while using the app. In addition, this update includes improvements to accessibility and inclusive use, refinements to place actions such as navigate, call, share, and website, improved support for adding and editing location information, plus bug fixes and performance improvements for a smoother experience.

This version introduces voice search, making it easier to find places using speech input. We also expanded the in-app help/manual to provide clearer guidance and support while using the app. In addition, this update includes improvements to accessibility and inclusive use, refinements to place actions such as navigate, call, share, and website, improved support for adding and editing location information, plus bug fixes and performance improvements for a smoother experience.

In this update, we made improvements to the map view, various UI updates, and multiple maintenance and bug fixes.