New: widgets. Put Europa-Park's opening hours on your Home Screen or Lock Screen, with the next opening days on the medium size, or keep the wait times of your starred rides in view. Tap a widget to go straight to the calendar or the ride. You can also touch and hold the app icon to jump to the map, showtimes, opening hours or restaurants. New: photos. Rides, restaurants, shows, places and train stations now have photos. Swipe through them and tap one to see it full screen, with pinch to zoom. New: EPbuddy on iPad and iPhone Duo. The list stays on one side while the ride, show or restaurant you tap opens beside it, with today's opening hours at the top. On iPad the map fills the whole screen, and keyboard shortcuts take you straight to each tab, the map and the opening hours. Every info sheet now starts with what you came for: the wait time, the showtimes, the next trains or whether a restaurant is open, with the photos just below. Tap a show in the Showtimes list to open its details: the times still to come, how long it lasts, whether late entry is allowed and a description. The map has a new "Open now" filter under More that hides closed rides, restaurants and shows. EP-Express arrival times are now worked out from the trains' live positions and count down to the second as a train gets close. Trains also join and leave stations on the map more smoothly. Features that need your location, such as Near me and Navigate, now stay visible when they can't be used, and tell you why and how to turn them on. EPbuddy is faster and smoother, and text on info sheets no longer changes colour when you pull a sheet up.

New: mobile ordering. Restaurants that take mobile orders in the Europa-Park app are now marked with a small bag, on the map and in the Restaurants tab, and you can filter the list to show only those. Each restaurant's card shows whether ordering is open, the next pickup time and the full menu with prices, and one tap opens the restaurant in the official Europa-Park app to order. Where a restaurant takes table reservations, you can book from its card too. Ride details now show since when a ride has been down or closed. Show names and venues are now shown in your language. Closing times in the opening hours bar and the calendar are now as easy to read as opening times. Settings has a link to EPbuddy.de, the privacy explanation behind a small info button, and on most iPhones a note that dark mode saves battery. Loading is smoother: outlines now fade into the content that replaces them.

New: a Restaurants tab. See which restaurants and bars at Europa-Park and Rulantica are open right now. Switch between Open now and All, filter by park, search by name, and when you're in the park use Near me to see the closest ones first. One tap takes you to the restaurant on the map. On the map, closed restaurants are now greyed out, and each restaurant's card shows whether it is open. Europa-Park only confirms its closing time on the day itself, so until then the closing time is shown a little lighter, with a short note in the calendar. While data loads, lists now show their outline instead of a spinner, and wait times and other numbers roll to their new value instead of jumping. On Apple Watch, the opening hours complication now switches between Open and Closed at the right moments and recovers by itself after a dropped connection.

Walking directions now keep up with you. Start a route to a ride and it is worked out again as you walk it: the line shortens behind you, the time left counts down, and you are told when you have arrived. If one of the park's trains would help on the way, a suggestion appears beside the walk. For the EP-Express it shows when the next train is due and what the ride saves you. The Panorama Train and the Monorail run to no published timetable, so instead it shows the ride time and how long a train may take before walking would have been quicker. When walking is the quicker way, it says so. In the AR view an arrow now points the way while you follow a route, and starting a route from AR keeps the camera open instead of closing it. Labels no longer sit on top of one another, a ride's label hangs at the height of the ride itself, and the view moves more smoothly. Also fixed: the EP-Express returns straight to where it really is after a dropped connection instead of drifting there, and stays visible where its track runs under cover.

The park's trains are now on the map. Watch the EP-Express move along its raised track in real time. Tap a station to see when the next trains arrive, how long the ride takes to every other stop and round the full loop, and roughly what time you would arrive if you catch the next one. The Panorama Train and the Monorail are on the map too, each in its own colour. Tap one of their stations for the typical travel time to every stop, including a full loop. These trains only run one way, so the times follow the order you actually ride in. In the park, the AR view now labels the trains and stations as well, and every ride's details show a small map with a Navigate button and the walking time. While you follow a walking route, the map moves with you and turns with your heading. The map also gains a satellite view, with the less-used tools tucked into a menu. Showtimes can now be filtered by park: Europa-Park, Rulantica or the hotels, with Europa-Park's shows as the default. When you're in the park with location on, "Near me" lists the shows within a kilometre, nearest first, with the distance to each. Also improved: after closing time the list tells you the park is closed and when to check back instead of looking empty, ride information now stays in your language after you restart the app, and the calendar's day card no longer changes size when you select today.

EPbuddy now speaks Dutch, and picks your language for you. Dutch joins English, German and French, and on first launch the app follows your device's language instead of always starting in English. You can still change it any time in Settings, where the language picker is now a single row instead of a wall of buttons. Also fixed: rides closed because of weather or frost were showing an unknown status. They now have their own label and icon, and sit above fully closed rides in the list, since a weather closure often reopens the same day.

A new look, a rebuilt opening hours calendar, and a reworked Showtimes tab — plus a round of fixes based on bug reports. The light theme has been redesigned around the deep navy of the EPbuddy icon, so the app feels at home in the park from first ride to last. Dark mode is untouched, and the theme can be switched anytime in Settings. Navigation and toolbar controls throughout the app now use Liquid Glass. The opening hours calendar is completely new. Every day shows its full opening and closing time, hotel guest early access hours are no longer cut off, and tapping a day spells out both windows with room to breathe. The calendar now shows a loading indicator instead of briefly reporting the park as closed while it fetches. The Showtimes tab has been rebuilt from the ground up. Swipe between Today and Tomorrow, tap a show to unfold every performance time, and use the location button to jump straight to the venue on the map. A search bubble now sits next to the day switch — tap it anytime to find a show instantly, with smoother open and close animations. The keyboard tucks away with a tap outside the field, and switching into Showtimes from elsewhere in the app now animates like every other tab. Wait times on the Europa-Park map now update live every 30 seconds instead of freezing at whatever they were when the map opened, and jumping to a specific ride or show now works reliably on the first try. Also improved: ride sensation bars are colour-coded by intensity with a corrected scale, Virtual Line tickets show the correct status colour again, and open ride detail sheets stay in sync as new wait times arrive. Thanks for reporting bugs — many of the fixes above came directly from that feedback. This version requires iOS 18.6 or later. Support for iOS 17 has been dropped.

Never get lost again! Version 1.5 brings interactive park maps with turn-by-turn navigation to guide you straight to your favourite rides — no more wandering. And once you're there, point your camera at attractions to unlock AR overlays with live wait times appearing right in front of you. Navigation and AR work when you're in the park, so get ready for the best visit yet!

**What's New in This Version:** - It's SHOWTIME! Now we have showtimes available inside the app and on Apple Watch! - Roland Mack is stopping by to shake things up and squash some bugs. 1.4.1 -> Push notification hotfix

**What's New in This Version:** - It's SHOWTIME! Now we have showtimes available inside the app and on Apple Watch! - Roland Mack is stopping by to shake things up and squash some bugs.

**What's New in This Version:** - Fixed downtime being shown as '?'.

**What's New in This Version:** - Updated sorting animation and algorithm! No more sorting mishaps from now on.

**What's New in This Version:** - Smoother updates that keep everything running effortlessly - Better animations and steady lists to make browsing a breeze - Alerts for any changes in park hours, so you're always prepared - Fresh look optimized for the latest iOS - Improved watchOS interface.

**What's New in This Version:** - Smoother updates that keep everything running effortlessly - Better animations and steady lists to make browsing a breeze - Alerts for any changes in park hours, so you're always prepared - Fresh look optimized for the latest iOS

New in this update: • Notifications now work properly for opening hours changes. • Bug fixes and improvements.

What's New in Version 1.1: • Completely overhauled user interface with improved visuals and animations • New status indicators showing when wait times change • Added Apple Watch complications for at-a-glance park information • Real-time park hours with change notifications • Enhanced Apple Watch experience with optimized layout • Improved language support with refined translations and added French language support • Better performance and faster refresh times • Bug fixes and stability improvements