• Meet HokieBot, now in iMessage: a new home for bus questions, trip planning, and one-time reminders. • Add HokieBot as a contact and start a text from the app or with Siri. • Share bugs and ideas with the app team through HokieBot. • A simpler HokieBot page with ready-to-try messages.

• Plan trips by text with walking and bus options, saved places, and last bus lookup. • Ask for another option or a return trip, and get a one-time text when it is time to leave. • More consistent arrival times and smoother stop departure board expansion.

• Get bus times by iMessage with Text Hokie Transit. • More reliable arrival times across nearby stops, departure boards and routes. • Find bus stops by name or stop number. • Clearer first-launch guidance, offline messages and larger-text layouts.

HokieTransit 2.6 • Live buses glide smoothly along their routes, and every bus shows its route name. • Clearer walking and transit directions, with a map that stays in view. • Publicly mapped Flock camera locations on the map, with source details. • Better map framing and support for larger text.

HokieTransit 2.5.1 • Small improvements and fixes.

HokieTransit 2.5: Student Deals. Discounts at Blacksburg spots, only in HokieTransit. • First drop: 10% off in store at Blacksburg Vintage Collective, downtown. • Tap Show QR at checkout. Staff scan it and take the discount off. No account, and nothing to pay in the app. • New deals drop weekly, and each one stays live for 30 days. • Tap Remind me on the Deals tab to get a notification when each new deal drops. • Planning a bus trip downtown? The offer can show up on your trip, marked Sponsored. • Adding a class by CRN no longer gets stuck on "Loading terms".

Bug fix: - On the Directions screen, the route line now stays where it belongs on the map. Moving or zooming the map used to slide the line off the streets it was meant to follow.

This update brings improvements requested by HokieTransit riders: - Open live route maps full screen to pan, zoom, and follow your bus. - Save addresses and reuse them as trip destinations. - Find street addresses more reliably when planning a trip. - See the classes scheduled for your selected day. - Create Transit Feed posts more reliably with the + button. - Get clearer information about upcoming departures on Home. - Report a missed bus directly from Home.

Nearby departures now show all eligible routes, including service at adjacent stops. This update also improves arrival-time displays, refresh and route-loading recovery, and feedback when saving classes or retrying a failed request.

Route details now highlight the next arrival when tracked buses have passed your stop. Passed buses remain available to inspect, and scheduled times refer to your stop. Add by CRN now clears connection errors after a successful retry and no longer treats cancelled requests as an outage.

Not just the bus anymore. HokieTransit 2.0 is four tabs: Transit, Schedule, Busy and Feed. Schedule. Add your classes by CRN and get a leave alert built from live bus times, for however you travel: bus, walk, bike, scooter, skateboard, or drive and park. Busy. Dining now shows mobile order estimates station by station, alongside gym occupancy and student reports. Feed. Rider updates, questions and ideas get their own tab. Transit. Departure times, route detail and the map are easier to read, and the map opens on the campus network. Widgets now say when what they show has gone stale, instead of showing old data as current.

Is it busy? New: check how busy campus is before you head out. - Gyms: live occupancy for War Memorial Hall and McComas Hall. - Dining halls and Newman Library: tap once to say how busy it is, and see what other students are reporting. Route detail now shows every bus running your route, not just one. Tap a bus to follow its own stops and arrival times. Live arrival times are also matched to the right bus far more reliably when buses are running behind schedule. Map and navigation: - The live map is now a full-width button on the home screen, and it opens where you left it. - One tap switches between satellite and the street map, and you can flatten the map to 2D. - Your style and 2D choices now carry into turn-by-turn navigation. Transit Feed has moved into About.

Fixes for class reminders. • Morning classes now get a real bus-timed reminder. Before, anything starting before about 10:45 fell back to a generic "head to your building" nudge with no bus and no walk time. • "Bus arriving" alerts now come through instead of being dropped. • Your saved classes no longer disappear if you delete and reinstall the app. • We now ask about notifications when you add a class, rather than the first time you open the feed — so reminders don't get switched off by accident.

HokieTransit 1.6 makes step-by-step directions keep up with the actual bus. DIRECTIONS THAT FOLLOW YOUR RIDE Your step advances seconds after you get off the bus, instead of hanging on the one you already left. If your bus served the stop early and pulled away, the plan rolls forward to the next real departure and says so. Board the same route in the wrong direction and a banner catches it mid-ride, with a one-tap replan. Every leg counts down from live predictions, including the second bus of a transfer. TRANSFERS YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A connection now needs a real safety margin beyond the walk between bays, not a paper one. When live tracking shows your first bus running late, the connection you would have missed is dropped for one you can still catch. If there is no better option, you get a plain warning instead of a promise that will not hold. A MAP THAT LOOKS LIKE THE STREET Buses are drawn as buses, in each route's own colors, lying flat on the map as you tilt and turn. When the live feed goes quiet, buses dim and say so instead of gliding on stale data. Trip lines now draw the whole journey: the walk to your stop, the transfer between bays, and the last walk to your destination. YOUR CLASSES, BY CRN Add a class with its CRN and HokieTransit fills in the real meeting times and buildings. A class that meets in more than one room gets a separate leave-time reminder for each meeting. Also fixes a crash when asking the assistant for directions during an active trip.

HokieTransit 1.5 brings a redesigned home and clearer, more reliable transit information. A FRESHER HOME Cleaner cards and a faster path to nearby departures, trip planning, and your schedule. LIVE NOW MEANS LIVE Live badges and countdowns appear only when a bus is reporting its position. Scheduled estimates are clearly labeled. The Lock Screen and Dynamic Island now indicate when information is stale. SMARTER TRIPS AND ALERTS • Trip planning can now find routes on reduced-service days using available live bus positions • Service alerts stay quiet when normal and become prominent when they affect a route • Full route names replace ambiguous codes FIXED • Adding classes no longer closes the editor • Stop links open the correct stop • After-midnight trips show the correct times Plus dozens of smaller reliability and performance improvements.

Smart Schedule reminders now work the moment you add a class as we ask for notification permission right there, and the backend is more reliable about actually sending them. Plus small fixes to late-night bus times and alert formatting.

- "Where to" autocomplete now only shows places in Virginia. - Fixed: walkable campus destinations now show bus alternatives too, so you can choose the bus when you'd rather ride than walk. - Minor fixes to routing accuracy on the immersive map. - Service alerts from Blacksburg Transit now show on the home screen. Multiple alerts condense into one banner; tap to see all of them. - Navigation map loads in 3D immediately, instead of waiting for the route to fetch. - Immersive map now draws a walking line when walking is faster, instead of suggesting a bus detour for short trips. - Cleaner alert detail view: removed technical Cause/Effect rows that didn't add info. - Copy polish across the app (notifications, status messages, banners).

Smart Schedule reminders are now bus-aware. When you have a class, we'll ping you at the right time to actually catch your bus, not just 10 minutes before class. The notification tells you which stop to walk to and which route to catch, so you can leave the moment you see it. Tap any class reminder to jump straight into the trip planner with directions to that building.

• Widgets — add HokieTransit to your home screen, lock screen, or Control Center to see your next class, the closest bus, and active alerts at a glance. • Live rider alerts — get a push when other students flag a delay, detour, or service change. Opt in from About → Notifications. • Trip planning beyond campus — destinations and starting points can now be any place on Apple Maps, not just campus buildings. • Schedule import — snap a photo of your class schedule and we'll add every class automatically. • My Schedule and Transit Feed redesigned — cleaner layouts, a bigger Next Up card, and a more polished posting flow. • Smarter trip alerts — leave-now and arrival reminders now adjust in real time as your bus moves through traffic.

• Fixed immersive mapping issues for a smoother navigation experience • Improved the personal assistant for more reliable help and responses • Squashed various bugs and made small performance improvements

• Fixed immersive mapping issues for a smoother navigation experience • Improved the personal assistant for more reliable help and responses • Squashed various bugs and made small performance improvements

• Smart Assistant: Ask things like “When’s the next bus to Torg?” or “How do I get to the Rec Center?” and get fast transit answers right in the app. • My Schedule: Add classes and events, see your next trip, and get a real computed leave-by time based on actual transit and walking conditions. • Smarter reminders + Live Activities: Get leave-now alerts, bus catch reminders, and live countdowns on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • My Transit: Build a personalized home view with your pinned routes and favorite destinations. • Immersive 3D Map: Explore live buses on a full-screen 3D map with route search and smoother tracking. • Better trip planning: Improved nearby departures, stop-level ETAs, route details, alerts, favorites, and walking-vs-bus comparisons. • Transit Feed: A new community board for bug reports, feature ideas, and transit discussion. Also included: • Improved ETA confidence indicators • Better service alert visibility • General reliability and performance improvements

- Fixed an issue where the Immersive Mapping screen could get stuck on a loading screen for some users - You can now view upcoming bus runs on a route. Tap the arrows to swap between runs and see all stop times update - The home screen for users without location enabled now shows live campus departure data instead of static route links

This update improves routing, navigation, and overall reliability. - Fixed an issue that could cause a black screen when starting navigation - Improved transfer routing for off-campus trips, including TTT/Christiansburg - Fixed route display issues so both directions now appear correctly for routes like CAS - Improved nearby departure labels so directions are shown more accurately - Better assistant responses and smoother handoff between questions and trip planning - General transit questions now go to the assistant instead of the trip planner New in this version: - Added 3D guided navigation with a conversational agent panel via Enter Immersive Mapping (Beta) - Improved the no-location experience with campus route banners and better fallback browsing