The minutes used to snap. Eight became seven between one glance and the next, with nothing in between to say it had moved. Every countdown in the app rolls its digits now — the board, the stopovers list, the journey rows — so a number that changes looks like it changed. The widgets and the watch keep the old still digits on purpose: those tick without the app being awake, and that is exactly what makes them free. The sort chips have moved into the row they always belonged in. They used to be a band of their own above the panel, costing a full row of screen; now they sit in the gap between share and walking speed. Same four choices — soonest, fastest, fewest changes, least walking — and the bottom of the screen is no taller for it. Every journey row is a line shorter. The countdown had a line to itself beneath the departure time, and since that column was the tallest thing in the row, that one line set the height of every card in the list. The two numbers sit side by side now, which is where they belong: one says when, the other says how long until then. More of the list fits on the screen. Berlin street names survive the summary. A disruption on Schönhauser Allee came back under a name matching no sign in the city — the guard meant to catch exactly that only understood streets written as one word, so every two-word Allee slipped past it. It reads them properly now. On the watch, tapping a stop in the Nearby widget opens that stop's departures. It used to open the app wherever you had last left it, showing nothing you had asked for.

You asked how to get to Wannsee and got seven ways back, each one tinted. One was the earliest arrival, one the shortest ride, one had the least walking, one the fewest changes — four superlatives at once, four colours, so nearly every card was highlighted and none of them was ranked. Pull a refresh and two would trade places under your thumb. Now you pick the axis. Four chips at the bottom of the screen — soonest, fastest, fewest changes, least walking — and one journey wins, tinted, saying in words which one it won. The order holds still: two journeys that tie no longer swap between refreshes, and a train that has already left cannot win anything. The row is built around the number you act on. The departure time is the largest thing on the card and counts itself down by the second. The legs are one bar as wide as the row, each segment as long as its leg takes, so a seven-leg trip is visible all at once instead of clipping mid-badge — one long ride, or four short hops, reads before any word does. Changes count rides now; the walk to the stop was never a change. Everything you touch sits low, in thumb reach, because this screen is read one-handed standing on a platform. The refresh button is gone — pull the list down, the way every other list here already worked. On the board, the via line is back. It names the next few stops under a departure, and two Berlin lines can share a destination and take opposite ways round to it, so often it is the only thing that tells them apart. It had not broken; it had quietly stopped appearing, which is why nobody thought to say so. It works on the open data now too. A station saved while the app was reading open data could end up saved twice, and the second copy did not work. One stop, one bookmark — and the duplicates already sitting there are repaired the next time you open the app. On the watch: a station serving five kinds of transport no longer shortens its own name to a stub, the journey card has a layout of its own instead of the phone's squeezed into a corner, the distance is legible, and there is a refresh button again — a list on a wrist cannot be pulled.

Stand at Hermannstraße and look up. Six lines serve that platform, and the old board spent itself on two of them — a heading, then a row for every departure, the same M44 written out four times before the U8 got a mention. So the board became one row per line. The M44 to Buckow-Süd is one row now, with every time it leaves underneath it, counting the next one down by the second. That row is the widget's row, the same one you already read on your Home Screen, so the two can no longer drift apart. A colour runs down the edge of each so you find your line before you have read its name. Tap it and you get the stops. That is new: for a while, tapping a row opened a page with a title and nothing under it. Small things, in the places you notice them. A destination too long for one line now takes two, instead of losing its middle — the difference between Buckow-Süd, Stuthirtenweg and Buckow-Sü…tuthirtenweg. The buttons that float over the board are glass again, and the departures read through them. On the Dynamic Island, the compact view holds a symbol instead of a word cut off after one letter. The route map stopped blinking. Platform numbers stopped being clipped out of the widget, on iPad especially. When a translation or a summary cannot run, it says why, rather than looking like a button that does nothing. And the app no longer crashes the first time you open it.

The board went blank on a Tuesday. Not a station, not a line — every departure in Berlin, all at once. The servers this app had read since the beginning stopped answering, and stayed that way for six days. So it learned to read somewhere else. Transitous serves open transit data for the whole of Europe, no account and no key, and Berlin is in it: departures, nearby stops, search, the stops along a trip, and door-to-door journeys. All five, rebuilt. Then, quietly, one of the old servers came back. Not both — one. That is the part worth keeping. The app now checks before it asks. It prefers VBB and BVG, the operators' own data, whenever they are answering, and falls back to Transitous when they are not. It notices within minutes, on its own, and the widgets follow. There is a setting if you want to pin it, and most people never will. A stop that federation had listed twice is one stop again. Search stays inside Berlin and Brandenburg instead of wandering to a same-named village in Bavaria. The Ringbahn's headsign is a direction again, not a code. Six days without a timetable is how long it took to build an app that does not depend on one server being up.

Storkower Str., waiting for the board to load. The glyph jumped up and down while it worked — pinned to the top of a container that changed height whenever the title collapsed. It holds still now, or zooms gently in place, and not at all when Reduce Motion is on. When the fetch failed, all it ever said was "API Error code: 503". No sentence, no way back. An error now says what happened in your own language, prints the technical line underneath — HTTP 503 · Storkower Str. · 13:00 — and offers Retry, on all four screens that can fail. The old Retry was a label shaped like a button; nothing in the app could try again without leaving the screen and coming back. The station widget had drifted from the app it belongs to: platforms in plain grey, a line capsule with the wrong corner, destinations losing their middle inside margins nobody asked for. The platform is a pill again, the capsule matches, the margins gave back their width, and there is an extraLarge layout for the space it always deserved. On the watch, the corner complication said how far and never which way. The bearing had been sitting in the data all along. It reads 350 m NE now. A circular complication joins it — the letters over the distance, in their own colour — and the families that had been quietly commented out are back. The last leg was a walk to Schalkauer Str., and the card said exactly that: a time, a small walking figure, the street name, an arrow — and then nothing. The destination was an address rather than a station, and an address had no name to give. Now the walk reads all the way through: 350 m, and the time you arrive. The card carries its destination at the top again, and a bar that keeps moving on its own through the hour when nothing can refresh it. A U9 leg once announced that service was normal, that some lines were partly cancelled, and that details were available elsewhere — in red, with a warning not to board. What it had actually been handed was two notices: "medium occupancy expected", and the word BVG, filed by BVG as a remark about itself. Given nothing to summarise, the summary invented something. Operator credits are dropped before summarising now, and the list still shows them. One sentence per leg, written once, and it leaves when the notice leaves. Another notice named four lines — S3, S5, S7, S9 — and back came a warning about S32 through S50, a sequence carried on past the end of the list as though those were stations. None of it was ever there. Line numbers, stops, platforms and times are checked against the source now; what was invented gets one chance to disappear, and if it stays, the notice arrives as it was written, cause and place intact — signal repair at Hackescher Markt.

Thirty stops between Gesundbrunnen and Hohenzollerndamm. The screen showed thirty separate rows, each with its own stub of route line — one ride, read as a stack of fragments. Now a single line runs the whole way. It fills as you move, a marker slides down it, the stop you boarded at stays marked. Above it: the line, where it ends, how many stops are left, when you arrive. Tap a stop and the other departures from there open as a card — what you could change onto. Tap the card for the full board. Only the open stop carries an arrow; the other twenty-nine keep quiet. The ride can sit on your Lock Screen now. The line, a bar across the whole trip, the next three stops, and in the Dynamic Island a countdown to the next one. No more counting stations through a dark window. Four toolbar icons became one menu, and the departure board has room for its title again. Pull down to refresh. The time picker opens over the list instead of covering it, departure or arrival takes effect at once, and the widget can show arrivals too — from, instead of to. A disruption notice used to print itself twice: a summary, then a preview of the same sentence. Now one sentence and a count. It arrives in your language, even when the delay was filed as a mere hint. And station names stay as the signs spell them — S Südkreuz Bhf, with the translation beside it, never instead of it. The floating home and map buttons are glass on iOS 26 and watchOS 26, so the list reads through them. And the whole disc takes a tap, not just the icon in the middle.

Three grey icons on a stop: something underground, something on rails, something on wheels. True, and barely useful. Now, when only one line of a kind serves that stop, the line says its own name. U2. M8. 142. In their own colours, once you've opened the stop once. Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz stops being a guess. A line badge should never shrink to a coloured dot. Beside a long destination, RE4 did exactly that. Not anymore. The progress bar used to come back blank from your pocket — it had been reading a clock that fell asleep. Now it reads the real one. Legs already ridden step aside; the one you're riding scrolls into view. The widget stopped showing 14:31 at half past ten. When it can't reach the network, it tells you instead of pretending. The Ringbahn turns the right way round — S41 clockwise, S42 against it, on the watch and in the Dynamic Island. On the wrist, walking legs take less room, so the remark beneath them fits. And the loading screen has a sky.

This update focuses on clearer live information while you're already on the move: - AI remark summaries now surface directly in journey legs, so disruptions are easier to understand at a glance. - Widgets now show live countdown timers more cleanly, with steadier text layout in departure rows. - Live Activities have a more readable layout with better platform badges, countdowns, destination text, and Dynamic Island behavior. - Remark summaries now handle partial cancellations and preserve abbreviations like BVG and DB more reliably. - Share text formatting is improved, and several layout and stability issues have been fixed throughout the app.

There's a warning on the next leg. The kind that used to mean tapping through a wall of text to find out why. Now it surfaces right there, Apple Intelligence condensing it to a line you can act on. You reroute. The app fills in where you're standing — no need to type it. Your destination stays. Nearby stops grew compass arrows. So did the widget. Walking out the wrong exit is harder now. Live Activities got a proper clock and a platform line. The Dynamic Island shows what remains: countdown, destination, where to be. Notifications skip past departures that already left. Stops open Look Around. A handful of layout details that add up over a long commute.

She got off at the wrong stop. Not far off — one station — but the street names meant nothing and she wasn't sure which way to walk. She opened Nearby. An arrow rotated toward each stop on the list. She turned until the nearest one pointed straight ahead and walked. That arrow is new in 4.9. Every stop in the Nearby list now shows a compass direction, updated as you move. The widget does too — a small colored badge in each row, so you know which way to go before you've even unlocked your phone. The reroute button got a proper workflow. Tap it mid-journey and the app reverse-geocodes where you are, keeps your destination, and plans a new route from the ground up. It pops back to the search screen, fills in your location, and searches automatically. You don't have to type anything. Nearby stops now load instantly from cache when you relaunch. No spinner. The address of where you are appears in the title — geocoded quietly in the background, the same way the widget has done it since last update. There's also LookAround for stops now, a share button for departure info, and the support section got a proper redesign. The small things: platform badge in Live Activities, compass hiding on the last walking leg, translate button disappearing once everything is translated. All of those landed earlier in 4.9 and are part of this release too.

BB Fahrplan 4.8 – Release Notes Release Date: 2026-02-08 What's New •Favorite Star Button: Quickly mark favorite line directions directly from the directions list •Line Departures View: New view showing all departures filtered by a specific line •Delay Indicators: Departure times now show delay (+3) or early (-2) as superscript •Widget Improvements: More accurate relative time display, updated refresh interval description •Time Display Fixes: Improved time rounding and better handling of missing arrival/departure data •Snapshot Testing: Added automated visual regression tests for UI components

BB Fahrplan 4.7 – Release Notes Release Date: 2026-01-31 What's New • New App Icon: Fresh, modern design with improved visibility • App Renamed: Now called "BB Fahrplan" (formerly BerlinFahrplan) • AI Remark Summarization: Apple Intelligence can now summarize transit remarks and warnings • AI Journey Remarks: Get AI-powered summaries of journey alerts and service information AI Features • Smart Remark Summarization: Automatically condense multiple transit remarks into clear, concise summaries • Section Header AI Summaries: Journey sections display AI-summarized warnings and status updates • AI Summarize Button: Tap to summarize remarks in detail views when Apple Intelligence is available • Settings Toggle: Enable/disable AI remark summarization in Settings → AI Features • Language-Aware: AI summaries respect your app language preference User Experience Improvements • "Do Not Ride" Warning Color: Cancelled or problematic services now highlighted with warning colors • Improved Remark Display: Better organization of warnings vs. general hints • Heuristic Detection: Automatic detection of cancelled services from remark text Technical Improvements • RemarkSummarizer utility class for centralized AI summarization logic • AIRemarkSummarizationStatus enum for consistent AI availability checks • Array+RemarkSummarization extension with type-aware prioritization • RemarkSummaryResult and RemarkSummaryText components for cross-package access

BerlinFahrplan 4.6 – Release Notes Release Date: 2026-01-25 What's New • Enhanced Departure Time Display: Journey stops now show delay status with color-coded times (red for delayed, blue for early, standard for on-time) • Interactive Feature Demos: Lock screen and notification demos now use real widget components and data • Apple Intelligence Integration: Smart notification demo shows AI availability status with helpful setup guidance User Experience Improvements • Real-Time Status Visibility: Quickly identify delayed or early departures at a glance in journey view • Improved Lock Screen Widget Preview: Feature demo now displays actual AccessoryRectangularDepartureView component • Smart Notification Preview: Demo uses real CueCardEntry data for authentic notification previews • Apple Intelligence Notice: Clear guidance when AI features require setup in Settings Localization Updates • New German translations for feature demo strings • New Traditional Chinese translations for feature demo strings • Added localization for arrival notification messages Technical Improvements • StopView refactored to use TimedDepartureProtocol for type-safe time handling • Added LegTimeInfo helper struct for journey leg time wrapping • Created TappableTitleView and AccessoryRectangularDepartureView shared components • LocationKit dependency added to JourneyLegsKit for delay color calculation

BerlinFahrplan 4.5 – Release Notes Release Date: 2026-01-18 What's New • Comprehensive Feature Introduction System: New users now get a beautiful onboarding experience showcasing all app capabilities • Interactive Feature Cards: 8 detailed cards highlighting widgets, live activities, Apple Watch support, and more • First-Launch Experience: Automatic feature introduction presentation for new users with elegant sheet presentation • Multi-Language Support: Complete German and Traditional Chinese translations for all new interface elements • Settings Integration: Easy access to feature overview from Settings with convenient reset option for testing Enhanced User Experience • Platform-Specific Badges: Visual indicators for iOS and watchOS features • Detailed Feature Descriptions: In-depth explanations of widgets, live activities, nearby stations, and smart notifications • Intuitive Navigation: Seamless integration with existing app flow and tab navigation • Accessibility Ready: Full support for dynamic type and localization across all supported languages Developer Improvements • Clean Architecture: Modular SwiftUI components with proper state management • Debug Tools: Built-in reset functionality for testing first-launch experience • Performance Optimized: Efficient rendering with LazyVGrid and conditional imports • Real-time entry date tracking for accurate departure times Code Quality & Architecture • Migrated to Swift Testing framework for improved test reliability • Enhanced UtilityKit integration with binary target support • Restructured DepartureServiceKit for better modularity • Improved AppUIKit organization and dependency management • Enhanced test coverage with better snapshot testing • Streamlined package dependencies and build optimization

BerlinFahrplan 4.4 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-12-21 What's New • Enhanced relative time accuracy for widgets and departure displays • Improved widget time calculations with better entry date injection • Refined user interaction with tap restrictions on departure stops • Advanced testing framework integration with Swift Testing Bug Fixes • Fixed accessory relative time display inconsistencies • Resolved widget relative time calculation errors • Improved time comparison accuracy for departures • Fixed transparency issues in widget displays Widget & UI Improvements • Enhanced departure list interaction with improved tap handling • Better time formatting consistency across all widget types • Improved visual transparency and display clarity • Real-time entry date tracking for accurate departure times Code Quality & Architecture • Migrated to Swift Testing framework for improved test reliability • Enhanced UtilityKit integration with binary target support • Restructured DepartureServiceKit for better modularity • Improved AppUIKit organization and dependency management • Enhanced test coverage with better snapshot testing • Streamlined package dependencies and build optimization

BerlinFahrplan 4.3 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-12-14 What's New • Relative time display option for widgets and departure lists • Customizable time format preferences ("5'" vs "in 5 min") • Enhanced widget configuration with user-controllable time display • Improved departure time formatting with compact relative times Widget Improvements • Added useRelativeTime configuration option for StationWidget • Default relative time display with user override capability • Consistent time formatting across all widget sizes • Reactive binding system for real-time preference updates User Experience • Compact relative time format ("5'" instead of "in 5 minutes") • Seamless switching between relative and absolute time displays • Widget customization through iOS widget configuration • Improved readability with shorter time representations Code Quality • Enhanced test coverage for ICE express line color preservation • Streamlined package organization with better dependency management • Improved Swift 6 compatibility and build performance • All widget tests passing with 100% success rate

BerlinFahrplan 4.2 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-12-06 What's New • Widget package consolidation with NearbyWidget unified architecture • Improved widget API exposure for better Swift Package Manager integration • Enhanced color preservation for express train lines (ICE, etc.) • Streamlined package organization with dedicated widget components Widget Improvements • Consolidated all widget implementations in NearbyWidget package • Unified StationWidget and NearbyWidget with shared components • Public API exposure for proper Swift Package Manager integration • Improved TitleLabel component with location icon support Code Quality • Fixed critical color preservation bug in widget departure conversion • Enhanced test coverage for ICE express line color handling • Improved package architecture with better dependency management • All widget tests passing with 100% success rate

BerlinFahrplan 4.1 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-11-30 What's New • Enhanced modular package architecture with improved organization • Better code separation with domain-specific packages • Refined transport color handling with proper API encapsulation • Improved package dependencies and build reliability Code Organization • Moved extension files to appropriate packages for better modularity • Enhanced LocationKit with departure and line display logic • Improved StopKit with product helper utilities • Streamlined UtilityKit with shared color and formatting utilities Architecture Improvements • Proper API encapsulation for transport color system • Clean separation between public and private APIs • Better package dependency management • Maintained backward compatibility while improving structure

BerlinFahrplan 4.0 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-11-22 What's New • Dramatic build performance improvements with up to 40% faster compilation times • Modular Swift package architecture with UtilityKit for shared components • Advanced build optimization configurations for development environments Performance Enhancements • Development build optimizations provide 18% speed improvement • Platform-specific build configurations eliminate redundancy Code Architecture • Centralized shared utilities in UtilityKit package with comprehensive tests • Modular package structure for better maintainability • Dedicated transport protocols in separate packages • Streamlined dependencies and improved code organization

BerlinFahrplan 3.18 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-11-15 What's New • Enhanced AI notification messages for iOS 26+ with improved context and formatting • New CompactDeparture models for better performance and data handling Improvements • Streamlined codebase with removal of deprecated package dependencies • Enhanced transport info handling with new protocol-based architecture • Improved color utilities and compass functionality • Comprehensive code quality improvements with zero compile-time warnings • Better test coverage with modernized testing infrastructure

BerlinFahrplan 3.17 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-11-09 What's New • Cross-device connectivity: Clone your iPhone data to Apple Watch instantly via WatchConnectivity - perfect backup when iCloud sync is delayed or unavailable • Modern search interface using native iOS search experience with .searchable modifier • Improved watchOS interface with missing home button restoration Improvements • Better search experience with iOS 26 native search field styling • Enhanced widget background color support across all platforms • Comprehensive code quality improvements with zero compile-time warnings • Better file import/export with detailed progress feedback Bug Fixes • Fixed watchOS LocationPickerView button functionality

BerlinFahrplan 3.16 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-11-02 What's New • Data import and export functionality - backup and restore your bookmarks, search history, and preferences • Enhanced journey input panel with improved gesture handling • CloudKit sync monitoring and debugging tools for better data reliability • Location-based deep linking improvements for widget integration Improvements • Better duplicate handling for journey search history • Improved UI responsiveness with refined gesture pass-through • Cleaner bookmark view with vertical page layout • Platform display optimizations without extra spaces Bug Fixes • Fixed gesture conflicts in journey input panel • Improved corner loading text display • Better search button functionality • Enhanced deep link navigation reliability • Resolved tab switching issues with journey history

BerlinFahrplan 3.15 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-10-25 What's New • Apple Watch circular widget support with line and time display • iOS lock screen widget improvements with better departure visibility • Glass effect design throughout the app for modern iOS 18 aesthetic • Enhanced filter panel with floating glass overlay design • Improved scrolling experience on iPhone 16 Improvements • Better widget layouts for all Apple Watch complications • Refined glass panels for journey planning and transport selection • Optimized spacing and layout adjustments • Enhanced widget link functionality for accessory views Bug Fixes • Fixed widget separator display issues • Improved lock screen widget to show multiple departures • Better handling of accessory widget links and navigation

BerlinFahrplan 3.14 – Release Notes Release Date: 2025-10-19 What’s New • The floating buttons on iPhone and Apple Watch now appear and disappear more naturally while you navigate. • You can now see all departures from a station directly under the lines view. • Improved map with clearer direction arrows and smoother interaction. • The home button now works more reliably and brings you back to the nearby view as expected. • Deep link from widget line and direction to Station view Improvements • Better layout and spacing across screens. • Updated button behaviour on Apple Watch for a smoother experience. Bug Fixes • Fixed an issue where the map sometimes wasn’t tappable. • Fixed problems with button visibility.

Berlin Timetable - Release Notes Version 3.13 (October 12, 2025) New Features & Improvements - Enhanced Widget Experience: Improved 3-row widget layout with 2-line display support on Apple Watch - All Departures View: New comprehensive departure overview for better station monitoring - watchOS Enhancements: - Fixed bookmark sharing between watchOS app and complications - Improved nearby station links and navigation - Enhanced station lines view with proper titles - UI/UX Improvements: - Star button integration in departure row views for quick favorites - Improved button colors and styling consistency - Enhanced map button functionality - Better nearby view button color handling