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A comprehensive log of every update made to Tunnel Rat, starting from Day 0.

September 6, 2026

Latest
v1.1.2

Improved

  • Smarter cushion on Time to Go reminders. Trains sometimes arrive a minute or two before the countdown says, especially further out. Your leave-now push now fires a bit earlier—more so for longer walks—so an early train doesn’t slip away without you.
  • More honest backup times. When live arrival data is out—an MTA data outage, or you’re deep offline—the app’s estimated times now reflect how often trains actually run at your stop, measured from real service, instead of trusting the paper schedule. The banner says so too: “MTA Data Outage · Showing Estimates.”

Fixed

  • Every station name now works in search. At transfer hubs that carry more than one name—like Franklin Av–Medgar Evers College, which connects to Botanic Garden—some names quietly matched nothing. Searching any of a hub's names now finds it, with a small note when your match came from a connected station's name.
  • Reordering favorites works again. Dragging stops into a new order used to snap right back. The reorder screen has been rebuilt with drag that sticks—plus new up and down arrows for when dragging won't cooperate.
  • Alerts say which direction again. When a change only affects one direction—Coney Island-bound trains skipping a stop, say—the alert now leads with that, in the MTA’s own words. It used to get dropped, which made a one-way change read like the whole line was out.
  • The nearby stop card actually shows up. Open the app while you’re standing in a station and the nearby stop card now appears within a second or two. Before, it often waited until you’d walked most of a block—which, if you were waiting on a platform, meant it never appeared at all.
  • Your pinned train stays put. Swiping away the nearby stop card can’t take your pinned train with it anymore. The two share one spot at the bottom of Faves, so only one shows at a time—and a pin still only clears when you remove it or the train has gone.

July 11, 2026

v1.1.1 (1)

Improved

  • Trip times that match the real world. Planned trip times now reflect how your lines actually run—including any active delays—so the estimate matches what you’ll experience instead of showing an optimistic schedule right next to a delay warning.
  • Sharper arrive-by planning. Planning to arrive by a set time now handles longer trips and pins your departure to the latest you can safely leave—so you’re not sent out the door earlier than you need to be.
  • Smoother with VoiceOver and large text. Live trip steps and section headings now read more clearly with VoiceOver, a couple of controls are easier to tap, and a few spots that used to get cut off at the largest text sizes now fit.
  • Estimated L train times when you’re offline. The L runs underground where signal drops out, so when we can’t load live times you’ll now see estimates based on the schedule instead of nothing at all.
  • Clearer directions on crosstown alerts. Service alerts for the L, G, J, and Z now name the borough each direction is headed—like Manhattan or Brooklyn—instead of uptown/downtown, which never quite fit those east-west lines.
  • Sharper walking directions on the map. The dotted lines that show the walking parts of a trip now scale cleanly as you zoom out—no more oversized, fuzzy dots when you pull back to see the whole route.
  • Cleaner high-contrast mode. For riders who use Increase Contrast, a few spots got cleaned up—menu text no longer casts a faint shadow, the holiday-service banner shows a clearer edge, and Home Screen widgets keep their high-contrast look even in the tinted style.

Fixed

  • A clearer first step during a trip. When a trip is underway, the top step could sit partly hidden behind the header. It now sits cleanly below it, so you can read the whole step at a glance.
  • Pinned trains stay pinned. Tracking a train through holds and weak signal is far more reliable now—your pin sticks with the same train instead of quietly clearing or hopping to the one behind it.

July 6, 2026

v1.1 (1)

Added

  • A new app icon. The Tunnel Rat mark got a redraw—a crisper rat riding a cleaner train, in a richer purple, with proper dark and tinted versions for your Home Screen. The new artwork shows up on the loading screen, in onboarding, and on the About page too.
  • Favorites Digest. One notification a day with the status of your favorite lines—disruptions, delays, or the all clear—delivered at a time you pick. Turn it on in Settings → Notifications.
  • Airport trips. Planning a trip to JFK or LaGuardia now includes the right airport connection—the AirTrain, or the Q70 and M60 buses—with fares and wait times built in. Airport stations also spell out how to catch your connection right on their page.

Improved

  • Steadier close-up map. Station names, route chips, and entrance markers now stay put while you pan around at street level—the map only switches to its simpler view during big, zoomed-out sweeps.
  • Jump back to the top. On stop and line screens, tapping the header while you're scrolled down now zips the list back to the top—the same shortcut re-tapping a tab gives you on Home and the map.
  • A closer look at nearby stops. Tapping a nearby stop card on the map now zooms in to street level, so you can see the surrounding streets and station entrances instead of just a highlighted pin at the old zoom.
  • Cards that stand out in the dark. Dark mode's page background is now a touch deeper, so cards and panels separate more cleanly from the space behind them.
  • A tidier Notifications screen. Reminders and the new Favorites Digest now live together in a Features section, and the Times & Days controls are more compact.
  • Roomier Not Running and Not Scheduled cards. The cards listing lines that aren't running or aren't scheduled right now have a little more breathing room, so they don't read so cramped.
  • A steadier reminder setup. The step header now stays put while you scroll, with an X to leave setup from any step and—when editing—a trash button to delete the reminder. Both double-check before anything is lost, and leaving an edit untouched just closes quietly.
  • Truer walking times. Walking estimates now follow real streets instead of straight lines, so the walk to the station reads the way it actually is. Anything still settling shows a ~ until it does.
  • Alerts that match your trip. When you plan a trip, you'll only see alerts that actually touch your route—an incident miles down the line no longer flags a clean ride. The Alerts tab still shows everything.
  • Clearer reroute callouts on a train’s stop list. When a train is rerouted, its stop list now flags “Temporary Local Stop” at the extra stops it’s verifiably making—and service changes for the opposite direction no longer flag your train’s stops.
  • Smarter route suggestions. The trip planner now skips routes nobody would actually take—ones with long walks that are also slower than another option. A route that earns its walk by saving you time or a transfer still makes the list.
  • Station cards that show every line. Nearby station cards on the Map tab now list all the lines at a connected station—so 4th Av–9th St shows its R, D, N, F, and G together, matching what you see when you tap in.
  • Dimmed badges when a line is suspended. When work or a disruption takes a line fully out of a station, its badge now dims—in the station view, on the map's station labels, and on nearby station cards—just like lines that aren't scheduled, so you can tell at a glance not to wait for it.

Fixed

  • No more silent reminders. If notifications were off—for the whole app or just for reminders—your reminders could quietly stop reaching you. The Reminders screen now calls it out and fixes it in one tap, and saving a new reminder turns reminder notifications back on for you.
  • Notification settings that tell the truth. Turning notifications off in the app now silences reminders too, and the Notifications screen correctly shows when notifications aren't allowed instead of always saying they are.
  • Honest service-change notes on train timelines. When you open a train's details during a service change, the note under a stop now appears only where that train is actually doing something unusual—like an express making local stops—and only while the change is in effect, instead of tagging every stop the alert mentions.
  • Stuck direction arrow on the map. The arrow showing which way you're facing could freeze after a subway ride or a long stretch in the background, and stay stuck until you relaunched the app. It now hides when your phone's compass can't get a good read—like underground—and springs back the moment it can.
  • Cleaner refresh time on the widget. The last-updated time on your Home Screen widget was ticking down to the second—reading like "44 min, 41 sec ago." It now rounds to whole minutes, so it reads simply as "44m ago."
  • Holiday schedule smarts. When the subway runs a weekend schedule for a holiday, the app now follows along—lines taking the day off dim across the map and station screens, and trip plans only suggest trains that are actually running.
  • Day and Night filter only where it helps. The time-of-day filter no longer appears on alert pages for what's happening right now—it only shows for upcoming planned work, where filtering by day or night actually means something.
  • The no-service note got its card back. When a direction has no trains coming, that message now sits in the same card your arrivals use—on stop pages and the map—instead of floating on the background.
  • Transfer lines stick to their stations. Once in a while the short line linking two connected stations on the map could drift away from the station dots after opening the app. It now lands right on the dots, every time.
  • Airport terminals now show as accessible. Trip accessibility details were mislabeling the JFK AirTrain and LaGuardia terminals as having no elevator access—both are fully step-free. They now read as fully accessible, with a proper name instead of a technical code.
  • One-way service changes no longer detour your whole trip. When work affects trains in just one direction—say, Manhattan-bound trains skipping a stop—trip plans now know the other direction is running normally. Before, they treated the station as closed both ways and sent you on long detours around stops your train still makes. Route options also stop waving a service-change flag for changes that only touch the opposite direction, and the trip-time button on a place's page now matches the route you'll actually see.
  • Arrivals no longer crowd the line picker. Scrolling the map’s station sheet could push arrival cards right up against the line picker at the top. Everything keeps its distance now.
  • Pinned trains survive holds. When your pinned train gets held at a station or knocked off its published schedule, the pin now rides it out instead of quietly vanishing—and it never disappears while you have that train’s details open.

July 2, 2026

v1.0 (8)

Added

  • Departure reminders. Tell us the train you want to catch and when, and we'll send a push when it's time to head out—timed to your walk plus live train times, so you leave right on time. Set one up in Settings → Reminders.
  • Accessibility at a glance. A wheelchair symbol now sits next to the station name on the stop and map screens, showing how accessible a station is—fully, partially, or not—so you can tell without opening anything.
  • Set a reminder right from a trip. Planning a trip for later? A Create Reminder button now sits next to Start Now—one tap preloads a reminder for that trip's first train, ready to review and save.
  • One tap for route details. Tap your selected route in the trip planner for the full picture—alerts on the lines you’ll ride and elevator access at the stations you’ll use, all in one place.

Improved

  • Route warnings that tell you why. When something’s affecting a route you’re planning, the preview now names it—Delayed, Service Change, or Planned Work—instead of an exact arrival time we can’t stand behind. And it only appears when the issue actually applies at your travel time.
  • A heads-up when you’re outside New York. Open Tunnel Rat away from the city and a note lets you know you’re outside New York—so an empty-looking map or missing nearby stops reads as intentional, not broken. Tap it away whenever you like.
  • Named stops when you preview or ride a trip. The map now labels the stations that decide a trip—where you get on, where you transfer, and where you get off—so you can size up a route before you start it and follow along once you’re moving.
  • Clearer reminder saves. Saving a reminder now confirms with a quick Reminder Created note. The review screen also labels your catch time as Board Time—when the train leaves—since the actual nudge comes earlier, with your walk built in.
  • Calmer cards for upcoming work. Planned service changes that haven't started yet now wear a quiet grey banner with a calendar—only work disrupting service right now shows red or amber. You'll see it on the Alerts tab and when checking a trip planned for later.

Fixed

  • Clearer VoiceOver labels on the tab bar. If you get around with VoiceOver, the tabs along the bottom now announce their real names—Favorites, Map, Alerts, and Search. The Alerts tab used to read as 'Warning,' which could sound like something was wrong.
  • Fresh times the moment you open the app. Coming back to Tunnel Rat now refreshes arrivals right away on every screen—your saved stops, stop pages, the map, and active trips—instead of showing leftover times from your last visit until you refreshed by hand.
  • A loading state instead of a false "no arrivals." Stop pages could briefly claim no trains were coming while times were still loading. Now you'll see a loading shimmer until we actually know.
  • Departed trains clear out. A train that had already left could linger with a stale countdown—on a boarding card mid-trip, or on your saved stops around the end of service. Once we know it's gone, it clears right away.
  • A home-screen widget you can trust. The widget could freeze mid-countdown, dress up old times as fresh, or get stuck asking you to refresh overnight. Countdowns now keep ticking between updates, the time stamp tells the truth about its age, and a quiet line reads Not Running instead of nagging.
  • Easier-to-read buttons on the map's sheets. The close and menu buttons at the top of the map's station and place sheets were blending into the background—they now stand out clearly at every sheet height, and a faint hard line under the station sheet's header is gone.

June 30, 2026

v1.0 (7)

Added

  • Peek a train’s remaining stops. Tap a train—in your saved stops, on a stop’s page, or in the map—to see the rest of its trip: every stop still ahead, when it’ll reach each one, and the lines you can transfer to along the way.
  • Pin a train you’re racing for. Pin a train and it stays docked at the bottom of your saved stops with a live countdown—it sticks around even if you close the app or lose signal underground, and clears itself once the train passes your stop.
  • See where a line branches. Open a line and the branches it splits into now show as their own labeled sections—like the A’s split out to the Rockaways and Lefferts Blvd—so it’s clear which stops sit on which branch. Tap a branch to collapse it.
  • See what’s running right now. Stops a line isn’t serving at the moment gently fade, and transfers that aren’t running fade too—so a glance tells you what’s actually moving, not just what runs at some point in the day.
  • Know when each stop is served. Every stop now shows how the line serves it—all the time, late nights only, or just rush hours and peak season—the kind of detail that trips you up on the Rockaway and weekend runs.
  • Edit and remove your saved places. A new menu beside the map’s search lets you change or clear your Home and Work whenever they move—so you’re never stuck with an old address.
  • New app icon. Tunnel Rat has a brand-new icon with a glassy, dimensional look—and the welcome and loading screens now mirror it, so the app feels of-a-piece from your Home Screen on in.
  • Accessibility badges on the map. Stations with elevator access now show a wheelchair badge right on their map label—a filled badge for fully accessible stations, an outline for partially accessible ones—so you can spot step-free access at a glance. Tap any station for the full picture.
  • Symbols & Icons guide. A new reference page spells out everything you see in the app—local and express badges, the shuttles, the dots that mark each stop, the connected-station symbols, and every alert and accessibility icon. Reach it from the ··· menu anywhere in the app, or from Settings.
  • Pick light or dark as you start. The welcome screen now has a light, dark, or system switch right at the top, so you can set how the app looks before you even begin—and your choice carries straight through to Settings.

Improved

  • Clearer reasons a line isn’t stopping. When a line isn’t serving your stop right now, the note explaining why is now specific to that stop—‘Only stops here late at night’ rather than a vague line-wide summary—so you can tell whether it’s skipping your stop or simply not running at the moment.
  • Quick actions on any train. Press and hold a train for a short menu to jump to its full line or check its alerts—on every train, not just ones with a service change.
  • A clearer look for service alerts. Service alerts got a redesign. Each now opens with a color-coded banner—its color and icon show how serious it is, alongside the affected direction and when it ends—over a bold, plain-language summary of what’s happening. It’s much faster to scan, and the MTA’s original wording is still a tap away, clearly labeled.
  • Sharper trip times. Trip-planning estimates are more accurate for late-night and infrequent service, on trips with a few legs, and across the early-morning service changeover—so the times you see line up better with what actually shows up.
  • Honest arrival times on an active trip. While you’re following a trip, the upcoming-arrival times now fade and flag themselves as out of date if your signal drops—so a stale countdown never looks live and you won’t miss a train that already left.
  • A heads-up for step-free access. When you route to a station that isn’t step-free accessible, trip planning now tells you up front instead of letting you find out when you get there.
  • Saved places act like favorites. Open your Home or Work from the map and it now shows as starred, like any place you’ve favorited—and unstarring it removes it from your saved places.
  • A faster, smoother map. The Map tab draws its stations and subway lines noticeably faster the first time you open it, and moving around it now stays fluid even where stations sit close together—fine detail eases back while you’re panning and snaps in the moment you stop.
  • More efficient home-screen widgets. Your widgets now refresh only when their arrivals or alerts actually change, so they do less unnecessary work in the background—a little easier on battery, especially if you keep several on your Home Screen.
  • Refined depth and shadows. Shadows across cards, buttons, and map markers now share one consistent look and sit a little softer throughout the app—subtle polish that’s most noticeable in Dark Mode.
  • Clearer widget on weak signal. When your home-screen arrivals widget can’t refresh on a weak signal, it now says so clearly instead of looking like the tap did nothing—and it reaches for the same faster connection the app uses, so it’s more likely to update underground.
  • Good news goes teal. Every all-good moment—no active alerts, lines looking good, a train arriving right now—now shows in a fresh teal instead of green, across the app and your home-screen widgets.
  • Calmer service notices. Minor station and boarding notices now appear in a soft blue instead of grey, so they read as the low-key heads-ups they are and stand apart from the rest of the screen.
  • A smoother way to set Home and Work. Setting your Home or Work from the map’s search is cleaner—a simpler header you can back out of with a tap, a prompt that asks for the exact place, and a quick confirmation once it’s saved. Your starred favorites there pick up the same purple icon as your saved places, too.
  • Dark Mode loading screen. On launch, the loading screen now settles onto a deep purple backdrop in Dark Mode—at home with the rest of the app—instead of the brighter daytime purple, and comes up cleanly.
  • A calmer map. The Map tab now thins out the crowd of nearby businesses and keeps the bigger landmarks worth steering by—parks, stadiums, museums, and the like. Tap a station and the map clears, so the station and its entrances stand out.
  • Preview your route on the map. While you're choosing between trip options, you can now slide the route panel down to a slim bar—uncovering the full map and the route we're suggesting—then slide it back up to compare options and start. Handy for seeing where a trip takes you before you head out.
  • Active trip in Dark Mode. The top edge of the step-by-step directions now fades cleanly into the dark background, instead of a faint gray band where the header meets your steps.
  • Focus on the stop you tap. Tap any stop on the map and the other stations around it now ease back—their names and line badges fade away and their dots dim—so the stop you picked stands out and the map stops feeling crowded. Tap another stop to switch to it, or close the card to bring everything back.
  • Tidier ··· menus. The ··· menus throughout the app are reorganized into clear, labeled sections—actions at the top, display options in the middle, info at the bottom—so everything’s easier to find at a glance.
  • A clearer connection banner. The banner at the top of the app now leads with an icon for what’s going on—no signal, a weak signal, or an MTA data outage—so a glance tells you why times might be behind.
  • A smoother welcome. The onboarding steps now ease in—text and elements settle into place with a gentle, staggered motion instead of snapping over all at once—so your first run feels calmer and more considered.
  • Jump to any stop on a train’s route. Looking at a train’s upcoming stops, tap any one to open it—and backing out drops you right back on the train you were tracking. A stop that’s a station complex opens with its full platform switcher.

Fixed

  • No routing onto a suspended line. Trip planning won’t send you onto a line that’s fully suspended—it finds another way, or tells you the line you’d normally take is down.
  • Smarter fallbacks when planning a trip. Arrive-by results no longer quietly drop valid options, and if your location is off you now get a quick tap-through to Settings plus a working hand-off to Maps from where you are.
  • Stops in their true order. Some lines—the A most noticeably—could list their stops out of order where the route branches. The full list now follows the real path of the train, end to end.
  • A clearer save confirmation. The brief confirmation that appears after you save or remove a place could look faded and washed-out. It’s now solid and easy to read.
  • A map that stays flat. The Map tab could occasionally tilt into a 3D view. It now stays flat and top-down, the way a subway map should.
  • Accurate holiday tag. The “Holiday” label on your Favorites now appears only while holiday service is actually in effect—not a day or two before it starts.
  • Truer direction labels. Some stops named a borough the train doesn’t head toward—southbound trains through Downtown Brooklyn read “Brooklyn & Manhattan,” for instance, even though they run deeper into Brooklyn. And at a few big transfer stops like Jay St-MetroTech both directions named the same borough, leaving nothing to tell them apart. Each direction now lists the boroughs that train actually reaches and reads differently from the other way—wherever it shows up: the stop screen, your Favorites, and the widgets.
  • Your entrance shows at any zoom. During a step-by-step trip, the station entrance you’re meant to use now shows on the map no matter how far out you’re zoomed. Before, the first walking leg could look like it ended on a blank patch of map until you zoomed all the way in.
  • A cleaner end to your trip. Trips that end inside a larger station no longer add an extra, empty “switch trains” step right before you leave. Your directions now finish cleanly with the “Exit the station” step.
  • Honest arrivals when your signal drops. When you’re offline or barely connected, a stop now says plainly that it can’t load arrivals right now—instead of guessing that trains aren’t running or showing a schedule it can’t stand behind.
  • A failed refresh looks like one. Tap refresh with no signal and the button now shows a no-connection mark instead of a checkmark—so a refresh that didn’t go through never looks like it did.
  • No overlap after a flaky signal. Fixed a rare glitch where a screen’s title could overlap the list beneath it after your connection flickered in and out underground.
  • An accurate holiday notice. The holiday banner on the Alerts screen now simply names the holiday, instead of always adding “Sunday Schedule”—which could be wrong for a holiday that lands on a Saturday, like the Fourth of July.
  • Classic layout by default. New installs now start with the Classic arrivals layout, the way they were meant to. You can still switch to the grouped layouts anytime in Settings.
  • Pinned trains stay pinned. The pin on a train’s details could occasionally switch itself off while you watched—now it holds until you unpin it yourself.
  • Map lines that fade on time. On the map, a line that isn’t stopping at a station right now fades—and that fading now keeps up as service changes through the day, like when late-night-only trains stop running in the morning. Before, a station could keep showing its overnight state until you panned or zoomed the map.

June 16, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Faster, smoother launch. The app opens quicker and the loading animation got a polish pass—it now fills in one smooth motion instead of catching partway, and when you reopen after it’s been closed a while it drops you straight to your Favorites instead of hanging on the loading screen.
  • Real schedule when your times go stale. If your saved arrival times are hours old and you’re on weak signal, the app now shows the regular schedule—clearly marked, with a heads-up at the top—instead of leaving frozen, out-of-date countdowns on screen.
  • Less clutter at big stations. When you tap a station in a large complex and zoom in, the names and badges around it now ease back so the entrance markers stand out and stay easy to read.
  • Clearer messages on your widgets. When a home-screen widget has nothing to show—no trains running, no favorites added yet, or all your lines running clean—its message is now shorter, reads in full instead of getting cut off on the smallest widget, and is easier to read at a glance.
  • Tuck a station’s card away. Drag a station’s card down to a slim bar and the map opens up behind it—pan and zoom to scout its entrances and the blocks around it while the station stays selected. Drag it back up for the full arrivals and details.
  • A cleaner map. The map’s stop markers and express-station marks got a refresh, and station names now stay crisp and easy to read over any part of the map. In dark mode, the lines and shaded areas that show free transfers between nearby stations switch to a brighter purple so they’re easier to pick out.
  • A sharper map in High Contrast. With the system’s Increase Contrast setting turned on, the map’s stops, station names, and line badges now carry bolder outlines so they separate cleanly from everything behind them.

Fixed

  • No false “No Service” on part-time lines. Lines that only run certain hours—like the Z at rush hour, or trains that don’t run overnight—were showing a red “No Service” alert, and could even send a notification, during the hours they’re simply not scheduled to run. Those normal schedule gaps no longer show as disruptions or notify you, so a quiet line reads as quiet—not broken.
  • Neighboring stations no longer look merged. On the map, the shaded entrance areas for two separate stations sitting close together—like Fulton St and the World Trade Center stations next door—could overlap and read as one big station. Each now keeps to its own footprint.
  • Ramps marked as step-free. Entrances with ramps are now marked as step-free access on the map alongside elevators, instead of showing the stairs marker.
  • Widget arrivals stay pinned to the top. When a home-screen widget hadn’t refreshed in a while and was down to its last upcoming train, that train could drift toward the middle of the widget. Arrivals now stay anchored at the top, right under the station name, however many are showing.
  • Calmer direction switch. The up/down button that flips a station between its two directions—like uptown and downtown—used to flash for a moment when you tapped it. Now it switches cleanly and instantly, anywhere it appears.

June 15, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Your Favorites row, always there. On the Alerts tab, the Favorites row under Planned Work no longer appears and disappears. When there’s upcoming work on the lines you follow it shows how many; when there isn’t, it quietly says so—so there’s always one place to look.
  • Cleaner station entrances on the map. Station entrances now show as tidy chips that match the stop dots, and at busy complexes they group into a single marker with a count instead of burying the map—zoom in and they fan out to the individual doors.

Fixed

  • Long-term closures, off the Disruptions list. A stop closed for weeks of planned work—like a 7 train station shut for improvements—could show up under Disruptions as if it were a live problem. Those longer planned closures now sit under Long-Term instead, keeping Disruptions focused on what’s happening right now.
  • Map stops back where they belong. At some zoom levels a handful of stations—like Bergen St on the 2/3—were drawn stacked on top of a different nearby stop, and their line badges could flash the wrong lines for a moment. Each station now sits at its own entrances, cleanly, at every zoom level—and at the big multi-line complexes, dots use hand-tuned positions so a few that sat a block off, like Broadway Junction, land right where you’d expect.

June 14, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Cleaner station headers. The station page and the map’s station sheet have a tidier header: saving a stop and other quick actions now live in the ••• menu, and the line filters sit right below the name so they’re easy to reach.
  • Clearer stops on the map. Express stops now read as a distinct ringed dot, the stop you’ve tapped stands out in purple, and the dots, line badges, and station names sit a little more crisply above the map.

Fixed

  • Saved-stop directions, right away. The direction labels on your saved stops used to flash a plain “Uptown”/“Downtown” when you first opened the app, and sometimes forgot the detailed version on the next open. They now show the station-specific direction the moment your Favorites load, and remember it from one visit to the next.
  • Overnight closures read as disrupted all night. Near the start and end of a late-night closure, the Right Now view could briefly show a suspended line as “Good Service.” It now reflects the closure for its full window—and reads the schedule in New York time, so it’s right even when your phone’s clock is set to another zone.
  • Cleared alerts disappear right away. When the last alert affecting a stop was resolved, the stop could keep showing it until you left the screen or relaunched. A resolved alert now clears from the stop, the Alerts tab, and Home as soon as it’s gone.
  • The Alerts widget keeps up on refresh. Tapping the Alerts widget’s refresh button could leave an old delay badged after it had already cleared. The widget now drops stale and expired alerts the same way the app does, so a refresh shows the current state.
  • Notices stay on the Alerts tab. Station and boarding notices could show up as a grey “Notices” tag on your Favorites screen. They now live only in the Alerts tab’s Notices section, so the tags on Favorites stay focused on disruptions and delays.
  • Back from directions returns to the station. Getting directions to a station from the map and then tapping back used to drop you on a different screen. It now brings you right back to that station’s times.
  • No false “no service” on a stale open. Opening a station after the app had been closed a while could blink “No service at this stop” for a moment before the times loaded. It now shows the loading placeholder until a refresh actually confirms the times—so a brief gap never reads as a dead station.

June 12, 2026

v1.0

Fixed

  • Multi-night work stays put. Planned work that runs across several nights or weekends used to disappear from the Alerts tab once its first window passed—even while a later window was still live. Every window counts now: the alert stays visible, timed to whichever window is happening or coming up next.
  • Rescheduled work updates. When the MTA quietly reschedules planned work without rewording the alert, the new dates now flow through instead of the old schedule sticking around.

June 11, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Load more results. A new button at the bottom of place suggestions pulls in a fuller set of matches—and when suggestions come up empty, the deeper search runs automatically. Tricky searches like a business name plus a street actually find the spot.
  • “Routes not scheduled.” When a line you'd normally take isn't running at your travel time, route results tell you—a note lists the lines the schedule ruled out, alongside the existing note for disruptions.

Improved

  • Time-aware trip suggestions. Trips factor in the time of day—you won't be routed onto a train that doesn't serve your station then. The D, for example, runs express past 4th Av–9th St during the day and only stops there late at night, so it's no longer suggested midday.
  • Line markers that know the schedule. A station's line markers lead with the trains that run there all day; lines that only stop part of the time appear dimmed while they're not running—and light back up during the hours they actually serve the station.
  • Not Running vs. Not Scheduled. Station pages split missing lines into Not Running (a disruption is keeping a scheduled train away) and Not Scheduled (it simply doesn't run here right now—with a note for when it does, like “Runs late nights”).
  • Express stations, marked right. Map dots follow the subway map convention you already know: an open circle marks an express station, a solid dot marks a local stop—so when your train goes express, a glance shows exactly where it stops.
  • Calmer entrance markers. Selecting a big station no longer buries the map in entrance markers—large complexes reveal their entrances as you zoom in, while smaller stations still show theirs right away.
  • Station search. “Court Square”, “union square”, “atlantic barclays”, “west 4th”—spelled-out names, different word orders, and street-style abbreviations all find the right station now.

June 9, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • A searchable FAQ. Settings → Support → FAQ has plain-language answers to the most common questions—arrival times, favorites, alerts, accessibility, privacy, and more—grouped by topic, with a search box to jump straight to what you need.

Improved

  • A fresh new look. Tunnel Rat has a brand-new app icon and mascot—you'll spot the new rat on your home screen, on the launch and loading screens, and all around the app.
  • Larger Text support. The whole app now scales with your iOS text-size setting, from arrival times to line badges, so it stays readable at any size.
  • Assistive tech support. Better VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and Reduce Transparency support, plus bigger tap targets on buttons—the app is more usable however you get around it.
  • A clearer About page. Everything's sorted into Developer, Data, and Licenses sections—full credit for the MTA, New York State, and GTFS data behind Tunnel Rat, the open-source libraries it's built on, and a note on how AI rewrites service alerts into short summaries (only the MTA's original alert text is ever sent).

June 8, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • A widgets guide. Settings now walks you through adding a Tunnel Rat widget to your home screen—and editing one you've already placed to change its stop, direction, or layout.
  • A Layout section in Settings. Choose how arrival cards look—Classic, Robust, or Compact—and whether to group similar lines, with a live preview that updates as you tap.
  • Share Tunnel Rat. The Share action in the top-right ⋯ menu is live—tap it to send anyone a link from Messages, Mail, or wherever you like.

Improved

  • A warmer welcome. First-time setup opens with a brief welcome screen, and every setup step got a cleaner, refreshed look.
  • The Alerts widget fills its space. When only a few of your favorite lines have alerts, line chips size up to fill the widget—and scale back down as more lines are affected, so a busy widget stays readable.
  • Clearer widget names. The arrivals widget now appears as “Arrivals” in the widget gallery (it was “Favorites”), and both widgets have clearer descriptions.
  • Widget wording. Tidied up what widgets say while loading, when you haven't picked any favorites yet, or when there's no service to display.

Fixed

  • Widgets stick to your lines. Arrivals widgets only show the lines you've selected for a stop—hidden lines no longer slip back in after the widget sits idle or you tap refresh.

June 6, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Alerts that match your travel time. Set a future time with “Arrive by” or “Leave at” and your route options flag planned work scheduled for that time—not whatever's happening right now. Live issues that'll be long resolved by then no longer clutter the results.
  • Truer trip times. Estimates now factor in how trains actually run—from the MTA's measured running times by line and time of day—instead of the published schedule alone. Busier lines at rush hour read a touch longer, matching reality.

Fixed

  • Place search finds the Met. Places whose names contain transit-sounding words—like the Metropolitan Museum of Art—were being mistaken for subway stops and hidden. They show up as expected now.

June 5, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Line page descriptions. Each line's description is now tidy and collapsible—tap to expand the full write-up of where the line goes and what it's like to ride—and a new “Learn More” link opens the line's Wikipedia article.
  • Planned work counts. The grey “Next 7 days” tag on line and stop pages is now labeled “Planned Work” and shows how many items are coming up—one weekend change or several, at a glance.

Fixed

  • Widget empty states. If you haven't added any favorites yet, your widgets now prompt you to add one—instead of showing a state that assumes you already have some.
  • Stuck widgets. Removing a favorite stop that a widget was tracking now shows a clear “Stop removed” message—touch and hold to pick another—instead of getting stuck on “Loading…”.
  • A tidier empty Favorites screen. Before you've added any favorites, the Favorites tab no longer shows a “No Alerts” tag with nothing to report—just a clean prompt to add your first stop.

June 4, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Alerts widget. A new widget (Small or Medium) shows at a glance which of your favorite lines have service changes or delays—a red “change” row and a yellow “delay” row with the affected line chips. When everything's running normally it simply says “All favorites look good.” Tap the refresh button for the latest, or tap the widget to jump to the Alerts tab.
  • A “Notices” section in Alerts. Station and boarding notices—like a temporary platform change or an entrance closure—group into their own quiet grey card instead of mixing in with disruptions and delays. Added or extra service shows here too, so good news isn't flagged like a problem.
  • Line guides. Each line's detail page opens with a short, hand-written description—where it runs, who rides it, and what it's actually like—written from a New Yorker's point of view, not the MTA's.
  • Schedule fallback. When the MTA's live arrival feed goes down—which can happen even with a strong connection—the app falls back to the regular schedule (marked with “~”) instead of showing “no trains.” A “Live Times Unavailable · Showing Schedule” banner makes it clear when that's happening.
  • Haptic feedback. A subtle tap when you favorite a stop, pull to refresh, switch tabs, flip a direction, open an alert, or start a trip—small confirmations that make the app feel more responsive.

Improved

  • Alert voices, labeled. Alert cards label our summary “Updated…” and the MTA's original wording “Published…” (tap a card to flip to it), so it's clear which voice you're reading.
  • Not-running lines. Lines that aren't running show a badge for why, and you can tap any not-running line to open its line page or view its alerts—just like a normal arrival row.
  • Direction labels. Headers across the app read as a plain place—“Manhattan,” “Court Sq,” “Brooklyn & Queens”—instead of the wordier “To”/“Into” phrasing.
  • Borough grouping on line pages. Stops group into one clean section per borough in the correct order—the 4 train reads Bronx, then Manhattan, then Brooklyn. Some lines previously split a borough in two, making the line look discontinuous.
  • Instant arrivals on reopen. Reopening the app shows your last-known arrival times right away—dimmed until they refresh—instead of briefly flashing an empty screen.
  • Faster weak-signal detection. When signal drops in a tunnel, the “Weak Signal” banner appears within seconds instead of leaving you on a long spinner, so it's always clear when times may be out of date.
  • Clearer map at big stations. Station names no longer stack up illegibly at large complexes—when labels would overlap, the Map shows just the busiest station's name, and every stop stays tappable.
  • Location off? Easy fix. If location is turned off, the Map's location button shows it and gives you a one-tap shortcut to turn it back on in Settings.
  • Snappier nearby stops. The “nearby stop” banner on Favorites appears as soon as you resurface from a tunnel, and nearby stops on the Map stay put while you pan or zoom instead of blinking away.
  • Smoother trip directions. The first walking step stays anchored to where you began instead of drifting to follow you; entrance markers fade in as you zoom toward street level; and previewing a route through a station with direction-specific entrances highlights the correct one for your way.
  • Settings additions. A way to rate the app, a list of the open-source software Tunnel Rat is built on, and a short note on how alert summaries are written.

Fixed

  • Alert badges in Compact. Badges now appear in the Compact layout too—before, a line with an active change or delay showed no badge there, so whether you saw it depended on your layout choice.
  • Quieter digests. The weekend and work-week digests stay hidden when there's no upcoming planned work on the lines you follow, instead of showing a banner that opened to an empty page.
  • G and M direction labels. Confusing labels that could read the wrong destination at some stops now read correctly.

June 3, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Route stops on the map. During a trip, the map shows every stop along your route as a dot, so you can see what's between you and where you get off. Stop names appear as you zoom in.

Improved

  • Step-tap zoom. Tapping a step that opens a station zooms the map straight to that stop—and back to you when you close it.
  • Up to four route options. The planner can show a fourth genuinely-different route—but only when a meaningfully distinct one actually exists.
  • Truer station markers. Each station's dot sits at its street entrances instead of drifting toward the platform's center—so the marker lines up with where you'd actually walk in, and tapping a station centers there too.
  • Active-trip polish. Cleaner blurred header on the active-trip screen, and the route step badges on the map read consistently in Dark Mode.
  • Steadier Robust widgets. Minute chips are a consistent width, so the time columns stay lined up instead of shifting as countdowns change.

Fixed

  • Stuck stop card. A stop card could get stuck over the Favorites tab after switching away from the app and back. Not anymore.
  • Small Robust destinations. The Small Robust widget shows each line's destination again—trimmed to fit when space is tight.
  • Stray “MIN” label. A lone “MIN” could float by itself in the Large Robust widget when a line had no upcoming trains.

June 2, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Color-coded alert tags. Alerts carry a tag so you can read severity at a glance—red for major disruptions, amber for delays, grey for minor notices—and planned work is marked with a calendar icon, so scheduled changes are easy to tell apart from sudden ones.

Improved

  • Plainer “toward” wording. Boarding steps read “toward” a borough instead of “into,” which stays accurate even on a short hop.
  • Better route variety. When you plan a trip, we're better at surfacing genuinely different options—including faster routes with fewer transfers that could slip through before.
  • “Not Running,” explained. The list of lines with no upcoming trains is now called “Not Running” and—when we know it—tells you why (e.g. “Track maintenance”). It shows on the map too, not just the stop page.
  • Plainer no-service wording. “No service at this stop” when nothing's running, “No service in this direction” when only one way is affected, “No arrivals in the next 30 minutes” when trains run but not soon—and your widget says “No service” instead of always nudging you to refresh.
  • Active planned work, placed right. Planned work that's underway appears alongside the disruptions and delays it affects, with the same urgency colors, instead of in a separate Maintenance list.
  • Cleaner Notifications settings. More consistent icons and spacing, a clearer on/off label, a compact borough picker that fits on one row, and clearer wording on the Times & Days and Boroughs filters.

Fixed

  • Express stop lists. Express trains list only the stops they actually make, instead of mixing in the local stops they skip past.
  • Silent transfers. Changing trains at a shared station always shows a “Transfer” step now, so a train change is never silently skipped.

June 1, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Estimated arrivals offline. When there's no live or recent data for a stop—underground, dead signal—arrivals fall back to schedule-based estimates marked with a “~”, across the app and your widget, so you're not staring at a blank stop.
  • Privacy Policy and Terms in the app. Read both in full inside Settings → Info. The short version: no ads, no tracking, and your data stays on your phone unless you choose to share it.

Improved

  • Honest staleness. Arrival countdowns freeze and dim as soon as your data is stale on a weak signal—an out-of-date time can't masquerade as live—and the widget shows how old its times are once they're stale.
  • Offline address search. Searching for an address with no signal explains you're offline and points you to station search, instead of a misleading “No matches.”
  • Offline equipment and digests. Elevator and escalator status and your digest stay available after the app has been closed underground.
  • Pinned Settings headers. Headers on Settings pages stay pinned as you scroll, so the back button is always within reach—and it no longer slips behind the offline banner.

Fixed

  • Offline banner overlap. The banner was covering content on the Feedback form and on alert pages like Disruptions, Delays, and Planned Work—those screens now sit neatly below it.

May 31, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Routes tuned to your priorities. Trip results include the genuinely best route for each priority—fastest, fewest transfers, least walking—tagged with what it's best at, and the list reorders to match the priority you set in Preferences.
  • Alerts on every route. Service alerts show on every suggested route—not just the one you've selected—so you can spot a disrupted line at a glance. When a line you'd normally take is suspended, the planner calls it out.
  • Wider route variety. You'll see a broader range of options—including routes with noticeably less walking, even when they take a little longer.
  • Speed and smoothness. The app opens noticeably faster, the map pans and zooms more smoothly, and stops, lines, alerts, and trip results fill in with less waiting and fewer blank moments.
  • Consistent platform-switch animation. Switching platforms on a station screen animates consistently—arrival rows ease in every time instead of occasionally snapping into place.

Fixed

  • Routing around service changes. When a line is skipping your stop or suspended through it for weekend work, the planner no longer routes you to board there—it sends you to a station that's actually being served.
  • Laggy route previews. Previews on the map update instantly when you tap between options, instead of occasionally lagging on the previous route.
  • Borough filter. Filtering alerts by borough works correctly now—selecting one narrows the list instead of leaving everything showing.
  • “Weekend work” mislabels. One-off events (like a parade) and unplanned problems (like a signal issue) are no longer labeled “Weekend work” just because they fall on a weekend.
  • Outer-borough place labels. Place search shows the correct borough for addresses across all five boroughs—outer-borough spots are no longer mislabeled as Manhattan.

May 30, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • “Maintenance” category. Planned work that's happening right now—like weekend track maintenance—groups under its own category, easy to tell apart from full disruptions and delays. Affected lines show a small wrench badge and status chip across Favorites, stations, and the map, and it surfaces in the trip planner and widgets too.

Improved

  • Better entrance picks. At big multi-line complexes (like 14 St–Union Sq), trip directions point you to the entrance that's actually closest, instead of occasionally sending you across the street to a farther one.

May 29, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Entrance direction labels. At stations where each entrance only reaches one direction's platform (like 18th St on the 1, or Bergen St on the F/G), zooming in labels entrances “Uptown,” “Downtown,” or by borough—so you head for the right stairs before going underground. Labels stay uncluttered: one per direction at first, every entrance up close.
  • Step markers on trip routes. Planned trips show small markers right on the map where you board, transfer, and exit—read the whole route at a glance without opening the step list. Entrance dots are trimmed to the ones your route uses; zoom in close to reveal the rest.

Improved

  • Correct-side entrances, system-wide. At ~70 more split-platform stations, the planner guides you to the entrance on the correct side for your direction—entering the wrong side at these stations can mean walking around the block and paying a second fare. (Previously this worked at 5 stations.)

Fixed

  • Double-listed alerts. A service alert affecting more than one line could occasionally appear twice in the Alerts list. It shows once now.
  • “Arrive by” times. Setting a trip to “arrive by” a time now shows the correct departure and arrival—when to leave to make your deadline—instead of mistakenly using your deadline as the departure time.
  • Norwood–205 St warning. A false “separate entrances per direction” warning at Norwood–205 St (D), which actually has a single shared platform. Any entrance works there.

May 28, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Dotted transfer connectors. Transfers between lines show a dotted connector on the map so you can see the connection at a glance—no more mystery gaps between ride segments.

Fixed

  • Short route lines. Route lines on planned trips extend all the way to the station marker instead of stopping short.

May 27, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Entrance dots. Every entrance at the stations on your route shows up on the map, so if the suggested one isn't ideal or is closed, you can spot alternatives at a glance. The specific entrance your route uses is highlighted in purple.
  • Direction cone. Your location dot on the Map tab shows a directional cone so you can tell which way you're facing.
  • Wrong-side warnings. At stations with separate entrances per direction (Bergen St, Carroll St, 23rd St on the F, Nassau Av on the G, 18th St on the 1), the Enter Station step warns you which side to enter—picking wrong means walking around the block and paying again.

Improved

  • Walks end at real entrances. Walking lines end at the closest real station entrance, not the middle of the station footprint—and at split stations they land on the correct side of the street for your direction of travel.

May 26, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Trip planning. Tap the new “Where to?” pill on the Map tab to search for a destination—addresses, places, or stations—and pick from suggested routes with walking estimates and live arrival times. Filter by leave-at / arrive-by, rank what you care about (least transfers, shortest walk), or require elevator-accessible stations.
  • Step-by-step trips. Start a trip for live directions: walk to the station, board the train, ride, transfer, exit—with live arrivals updating on the board card as you go. Tap any “Take the train” card to peek at that station's arrivals, alerts, and routes without losing your trip.

May 25, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Holiday schedule detection. When the MTA runs a Sunday/holiday schedule (like Memorial Day), a banner appears on the Alerts tab and a chip on the Home tab—tap for all holiday-related alerts in one sheet. Per-line alerts caused by the holiday (B, W, Z not running) group with the banner instead of cluttering the Disruptions grid.

May 24, 2026

v1.0

Fixed

  • Alert menu taps. Tapping an arrival with an alert badge on the Faves tab wouldn't open the alert menu. It does now.
  • Stray map lines. Cleaned up some leftover connector lines on the map from the recent station-grouping rework.

May 9, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • High Contrast mode. A new toggle in Settings → Appearance sharpens text, strengthens borders, and increases contrast across every surface. It also respects iOS's system Increase Contrast setting.

May 8, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Connecting stations. A new Connections section in the stop sheet lists stations you can reach without paying again via underground passage—in NYC that surfaces the long 14 St 7th↔6th tunnel. Tap to walk through to the connecting station's arrivals.
  • Borough filters on alerts. Every alert subpage has a Borough pill alongside Line, Date, and Time—pick one or more boroughs to narrow the list to alerts that touch where you care. System-wide alerts always come through.
  • Borough filters on notifications. Settings → Notifications has a Boroughs card too—toggle it on and pick which boroughs you want pushes from. Off by default, and system-wide alerts always come through.

Improved

  • Each station as its own dot. Stations appear as distinct dots—Times Sq's 8th-Ave entrance reads separately from its 7th-Ave entrances, and the 14 St complex shows dots at 7th, 6th, and 8th Ave. Tap any dot for the stop sheet with that platform pre-selected—the sheet header tracks the platform you're filtered to, and the map recenters when you switch platforms. Stop names and line chips make same-named siblings easy to tell apart.
  • A tidier filter row. The alert filter row reads more naturally (Line / Borough / Date / Time) and scrolls horizontally instead of stretching the page. Equipment is left unfiltered—most equipment alerts don't carry borough info.

Fixed

  • 14 St and Jamaica groupings. 14 St (1/2/3) at 7th Ave and 14 St at 6th Ave are now separate stations in search and favorites, as are Jamaica-179th St and Jamaica Center (E/J/Z). Bonus: faving Times Sq from different platforms no longer creates duplicate entries on Home.
  • Swallowed taps. Buttons, toggles, and rows near the top of Favorites, Stop detail, Alerts, Line detail, the Daily Digest, and the Report form weren't responding—the blur under the sticky header was silently absorbing them. Taps pass through cleanly now.

May 7, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Source chips on alerts. Each alert card shows a small chip identifying who wrote what you're reading—the Tunnel Rat icon on our summary, the MTA logo on the original.
  • About page. Settings → Info covers data attribution (MTA), what Tunnel Rat is, and who makes it—with links to mta.info, tunnelrat.app, and tktk.studio.

Improved

  • Clearer card flipping. Flipping a card to the raw MTA text swaps it to a softer grey surface with a thin border—easier to tell at a glance which face you're on. The raw face hides the MTA's headline so the description carries the message.

May 6, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Cleaner route lines. Routes that share a brand color (A/C/E, 4/5/6, B/D/F/M) collapse into a single thick stroke instead of stacking parallel lines—same Apple Maps treatment—and line thickness adapts as you zoom.
  • Smarter stop rendering. Stops render three ways by zoom: tiny dots far out, dots with names at neighborhood level, full route-chip pins up close. Junctions and express stops are filled dots, locals are hollow rings, transfer hubs are neutral—and the selected stop stands out with a larger size and bold white border.
  • Loading skeletons match your layout. Classic and Compact layouts have their own loading skeletons that match the real arrival rows—no more brief shape-shift when arrivals land.

Fixed

  • Empty map sheets. Tapping a pin for a stop with no trains running (like a weekend suspension) shows “No upcoming arrivals” instead of an empty sheet—and if cached arrivals expire mid-view, a clear “No arrivals within 30 minutes” replaces the blank space.

May 5, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Compact layout. Pick from three layout styles in the overflow menu: Classic (one arrival per row), Robust (grouped with a big countdown), or the new Compact—up to three upcoming arrivals per route as a tight row of chips, with the next one pulsing green when a train is arriving now.

Improved

  • Clearer layout names. “Condensed” is now called Robust, and the route-grouping toggle is now “Group similar lines.”
  • Feedback page. Feedback lives on its own page instead of a sliding sheet—Settings → Share Feedback, or any overflow ⋯ → Feedback. On Bug Report, Lines and Stops affected collapse into single rows that open dedicated pickers, you can flag multiple stops in one report, and the S (42 St shuttle) joined the lines list.

May 4, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Home-screen widgets. Widgets show the next trains at one of your favorite stops—pick the stop and direction when you add one. Tap the time chip to refresh on demand; tap the widget to jump to that stop. Lines with service changes show a red alert icon; significant delays show a yellow clock.
  • Three sizes, two styles. Small, Medium, and Large each support Classic (one train per row with a countdown) and Robust (grouped by line with minute pills). You'll find them as “Favorites” in the widget gallery.
  • Edit Favorites shortcut. A button at the bottom of the Home tab—Add Favorites if you haven't picked any yet—for quick access to the stops and lines editor.

Improved

  • Refreshed first-time setup. All four setup steps got a fresh visual pass—bigger headers, friendlier illustrations, tighter spacing. Stop picks stay pinned at the top as you keep searching, line picking gets All / None quick actions (and warns if you deselect everything), and the notifications step previews three real example pushes for your lines.
  • Refreshed overflow menu. The top-right ⋯ menu's quick actions are Settings, Feedback, and Share. Arrival grouping renamed: None → Classic, Route → Condensed. The Favorites editor drops a redundant subtitle, and the “Remove stop” trash icon is red to match.
  • One feedback screen. Share Feedback and Report a Bug are one screen with a Suggestion / Bug Report toggle—and Get Help opens your email app addressed to hi@tktk.studio (or copies the address if you don't have one set up).

May 3, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • VoiceOver reads full sentences. Arrival rows, alert cards, stop cards, and line chips read aloud as complete thoughts (“F train to Coney Island, 3 minutes”) instead of disjointed pieces—and section headers are findable via the heading rotor.
  • VoiceOver on the Map. Map pins announce the stop and its lines (“14 St – 8 Av, serves A, C, E”) and read as buttons; nearby cards and the Refresh button announce themselves with full context.
  • VoiceOver in setup. Line and stop pickers announce as toggles with selected state, so you can tell what you've added. The equipment detail sheet reads each elevator and escalator as one coherent description; back buttons, the overflow menu, and the accessibility indicator all announce themselves; and decorative animations like the loading mascot are skipped.

Fixed

  • Refresh that refreshes. Opening the app after backgrounding sometimes showed only a couple of arrivals (or none) for a favorite stop, and refresh wouldn't fix it—only force-quitting would. The button now properly pulls fresh data.

May 1, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Cleaner nearby cards. Removed the walking-time badge—the line chips and station name read more cleanly without it.

Fixed

  • Chip highlights. Tapping a nearby card now correctly highlights its station's chip on the map, including stations that span multiple platforms (like Fulton St or Times Sq).

April 30, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Chips at lower zoom. The colored line chips on each stop appear at a more zoomed-out level—see which routes serve which stops without zooming all the way in. Panning and zooming got smoother too.

April 29, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Your line first. When an alert affects multiple lines, the title leads with yours. Subscribe to F and a B/D incident reroutes onto F? You'll see “F/B · Route Change”—instantly clear why it's relevant to you.

Fixed

  • Duplicate pushes. When the MTA issues two near-identical alerts for the same incident with subtly different text (“57 St” vs “57th St”), they collapse into a single notification.

April 28, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Direction labels that mean something. Headers across Home, Stop Detail, and the Map reflect the real route at every stop. Brooklyn F/G stops read “To Manhattan & Queens”; outer-borough locals read “Into Brooklyn”; Manhattan stops flag a borough when one is salient (“Downtown & Brooklyn” at Fulton St). The Bronx keeps its “The” everywhere.
  • Alerts, twice as fast. Cut the typical delay from the MTA publishing an alert to a push hitting your phone from around 3 minutes to about 75 seconds.
  • Accessibility pill, easier to find. Each station's accessibility indicator leads the alerts row instead of being tucked at the end—blue when accessible (full or partial), grey when not. Tap for the full breakdown, including current elevator or escalator outages.

Fixed

  • Duplicate “All Clear”s. Lines like A/C/E could send duplicate All Clear notifications for the same resolved alert—and near-identical republished updates within 15 minutes no longer pile up your lock screen.

April 27, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Map opens to NYC. First tap on the Map tab opens straight to a NYC view instead of flashing the globe while data loads. Panning is bounded to the city, there's a max zoom-out, and if your location isn't available it centers on Union Sq – 14 St.
  • Tighter digest copy. Each route's card body is a one-line summary framing the change at a glance, with bold day-and-time prefixes (“Mon 11:15 PM–5 AM”) on the bullets so you can spot when the work hits. Saturday work lives only in the Weekend Digest now, where it belongs.
  • Canonical chip order. Line chips on stop rows sort in MTA order everywhere—numbered lines by color group (1/2/3 → 4/5/6 → 7), then lettered (A/C/E → B/D/F/M → G → J/Z → L → N/Q/R/W → shuttles). No more feed-order jumbles like 14 St-Union Sq's.

April 26, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Digests get a real page. The Weekend and Work Week Digests open as a dedicated subpage of the Alerts tab—with a line filter grouped by color—reachable from a persistent row in Planned Work. Pushes, the Home banner, and the row all land in the same place, and routes that already started move to Active Now automatically.
  • Digests that always arrive. The Friday and Sunday 5 PM digests keep retrying for up to ~3 hours if anything goes wrong on our side. If one ships with less-polished copy than usual, a small “Some details may be incomplete.” note says so.
  • Night and weekend labels. Late-night planned work reads “Mon · Night” or “Mon–Tue · Nights” instead of the old “Mon → Tue” that made nightly windows look like multi-day outages. Full weekends read “All Weekend,” active alerts read “Until 9 PM” / “Until Mon,” and card copy is prefixed “Night Work” or “Weekend Work.”
  • Map tab manners. Tapping a stop pin highlights it in purple, tapping a nearby card pans the stop clearly above the sheet, and map rotation is off—north stays up while you pinch.

April 25, 2026

v1.0

Fixed

  • Stuck “Weak signal” banner. Opening the app after a long stretch on a previously-flaky connection could leave it stuck on “Weak signal · No recent arrival data” until you force-quit. Coming back from background now counts as a fresh reconnect—and mid-session, a few failed fetches in a tunnel no longer lock the app out of retrying.

April 24, 2026

v1.0

Fixed

  • Tap targets. Settings → Appearance theme rows now select from a tap anywhere on the row, and the Faves tab lost an invisible band that was swallowing taps near the top of the stop list.

April 23, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Native filters. Lines, Dates, and Time filters on Planned Work are native iOS menus, with four quick date presets (Today, This weekend, Next 7 days, Next 30 days). Active filter pills read in brand purple so it's clear what's on. The Overnight card is back to “Tonight,” matching the rest of the app.
  • Shuttles by name. Pushes for the Rockaway, Franklin Av, and 42 St shuttles use the shuttle's full name instead of internal route codes—no more “no H shuttle service.”

Fixed

  • Dark mode legibility. Timing pills and severity cards use hue-appropriate colors in dark mode—the pink-on-red and muted-yellow readability issues are gone.

April 22, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • “All Good.” “Resolved” notifications are now called All Good—the push reads “🟢 A Train · All Good” / “Service is back to normal.” Warmer, and it puts the line front-and-center.
  • Chunkier time controls. Start and end times in Time & Days sit in easier-to-see containers, and day-of-week chips are bigger, switching to brand purple when selected.
  • Route lines follow the tracks. Map route lines trace the real geometry of each line—every curve, bend, and bridge—instead of cutting straight chords between stations. Shared-track stretches keep their parallel spacing through the curves.
  • Inline Favorites editing. The Favorites settings page shows each stop's line picker inline—no more bottom sheet—matching first-time setup. Reordering is a focused mode in the ⋯ menu (drag, ✓ saves), and Remove stop lives there too.
  • Swipe back from Alerts. Swipe from the left edge to go back from any Alerts subpage. The “Long-Term” chip also stopped crowding stop and line screens—those changes are always a tap away in the Alerts tab.

Fixed

  • Setup notifications that actually enable. Allowing notifications during first-time setup now actually turns them on—with sensible defaults and your lines auto-populated from the stops you picked, so you're fully set up by the home screen.
  • Setup search hang. The “Set your stops” search field no longer hangs for several seconds when you start typing.
  • Overnight overreach. The Overnight list only shows alerts that actually start inside tonight's 9 PM – 5 AM window, instead of catching daytime alerts that start later today.

April 21, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Long-Term Changes. Multi-month capital projects (a 3-month escalator replacement, 143-day station improvements) are a distinct category on every surface—no longer dressed up as acute red disruptions. Stop Detail gets a separate Long-Term chip instead of lumping them into Next 7 Days.

Improved

  • Active Now vs. Planned Work. The Alerts tab groups into two clear sections: Active Now (Disruptions, Delays, Long-Term Changes, Equipment Outages) and Planned Work (Overnight + Scheduled). “Future Work” is renamed “Scheduled,” every category page gets a one-line subhead, and card radii are unified.
  • Redesigned digest sheets. Tapping a digest push, banner, or chip opens a redesigned sheet—centered title, date-range subhead, a card per affected line, each leading with a headline like “Skips stops all weekend.” And the Workweek Digest is now the Work Week Digest.
  • Standard sheet chrome. Bottom sheets use standard iOS chrome—one “Done” button, no custom close buttons or redundant CTAs. Map stop sheets get a native nav bar with the favorite star on the right; alert sheets get a centered title and corner X. Cleaner, more familiar, better with VoiceOver.
  • Borough context on alerts. Station names in cards and pushes are tagged with their borough on first mention (Manhattan is assumed). Long “take Y and transfer at Z” reroute blocks are trimmed—the short “Use nearby Station X” lines stay, and the full instructions are a tap away on the raw MTA alert.
  • Subtler shadows, refined background. A near-white page background in light mode, a deeper indigo-leaning near-black in dark, and softer, more precise shadows on cards, chips, and sheets.
  • Better filter empty states. When a filter hides every alert on a page, a clearer empty state appears with a one-tap “Reset filters” button. Tapping a push for an already-cleared alert shows the original card with a green RESOLVED tag.

Fixed

  • Honest tab badge. The Next 7 Days chip actually filters to the next 7 days (it surfaced all planned work indefinitely), and the tab badge no longer fires for long-term alerts—those are ongoing, not acute.
  • “No arrivals” flash. Reopening the app after a while no longer flashes “No arrivals” / “Offline” on Home, Stop Detail, or the map sheet—the loading skeleton holds until fresh data lands.
  • All Clear pushes. All Clear notifications had been silently broken for 10 days—the behind-the-scenes step that hands a resolved alert to the notification sender wasn't firing. Clears arrive on schedule again.
  • Sheet title placement. The line-tap bottom sheet's title sits at the top next to the close button, not floating midway down—and a crash when two digest fetches ran at once is gone.

April 18, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Tighter severity rows. Tighter chip spacing fits 4 affected lines on one row, and Starts Tonight / Future Work cards keep their half-width when only one is visible.

Fixed

  • Friday-night weekend work. The Weekend Digest now catches weekend work that starts Friday evening—multi-day shutdowns beginning at 9:45 PM Friday were missed by a window that started Saturday at midnight.
  • Already-active “Tonight” alerts. Starts Tonight no longer lists alerts that are already active—all-day reduced-service patterns mislabeled as nightly-only now route to Disruptions or Delays.
  • Double-listed future work. The Future Work list no longer double-shows alerts already surfaced in Starts Tonight—and filtering by line brings them back so the filtered view stays complete.

April 17, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Planned Work page. A dedicated page with filters and the full list, replacing the Right Now / Future Work switcher. The Tonight pill previews upcoming overnight work—including weekend runs starting at 9 or 10 PM—and hides itself once the overnight window opens.

Improved

  • Line Issues + More Info. The tab reorganizes into two groups: Line Issues (Disruptions / Delays / All Lines Look Good) and More Info (Long-term Changes, Equipment Outages, Starts Tonight, Future Work). Pills with zero count hide—a silent count is a signal.
  • Tappable severity rows. Tap a Disruptions or Delays card for a full page of that category; tap the red or yellow severity icon for a sheet of every active alert in it. Long-term multi-week work gets its own pill so it doesn't crowd the red row.
  • A calmer arrival default. New users start with each train on its own row—every route equally visible at a glance. Existing users keep their preferred grouping. Alert icons on arrival rows are hidden for now; the new Alerts tab carries that info better.
  • Consistent shapes. Cleaner card shapes and corner rounding tidied app-wide, so chips, rows, and cards sit together more harmoniously—and every category surface pushes a dedicated page instead of mixing sheets and pushes.

April 16, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Tonight & Elevators pills. A Tonight pill gathers late-night-only alerts so they don't clutter the Disruptions row at 2 PM (they move back when the clock hits late night), and an Elevators pill opens a clean list of outages, each card headed by the station name.

Improved

  • Right Now status grid. “Now” is “Right Now,” leading with a line-by-line grid—Disruptions, Delays, Good Service, Equipment—so you can read the whole system without scrolling cards. Tap any line for a sheet of everything affecting it.
  • “Everything's Good.” When every line runs normally, Right Now leads with a single all-clear card instead of a long Good Service list.
  • Future Work, decluttered. A clean vertical list—no more “Next 7 days” / “All others” split—with line and date filters on the page itself, quick presets, a custom range picker, and one shared “S” chip for the three shuttles.

April 15, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Readable alert summaries. Longer summaries break into paragraphs when they cover multiple topics, so you can scan them—and each alert type has its own colored timing badge with a matching icon: Disruptions red, Delays yellow, Equipment blue, Planned Work neutral. The Active list also leads with the most recently updated alerts, so the freshest content is on top.
  • Continuous countdowns. Arrival countdowns on Favorites, Stop Detail, and the map sheet update continuously instead of only on data refresh—numbers drop every minute as expected.
  • Per-group cards. Arrivals grouped by Destination or Line get their own cards, with the stop name and direction toggle above so the stop still reads as a unit. “Route” grouping is renamed “Destination,” and long-press is scoped to the stop header.
  • Brand gradient on pop-ups. The digest banner, nearby-station banner, tooltips, and offline banner share a consistent purple gradient—and the status bar flips to white icons while the offline banner shows, so the clock stays legible. Tooltips were also refreshed—previously-dismissed ones re-appear with the new version.
  • Shuttle push names. Single-line shuttle pushes use the full route name (“42 St Shuttle”) instead of just “S.” Digests renamed too: “Weekend Ahead” → “Weekend Digest,” “Week Ahead” → “Workweek Digest.”

Fixed

  • Bold that's actually bold. Bold phrases inside alert rows and sheets render bold now—they were silently flattened before. “All Clear” resolution alerts also stopped showing as cards; they're push-only, as intended.
  • Alerts that survive blips. Cards no longer go blank when the raw MTA feed hiccups—as long as our summary came through, you'll still see your alerts. Brief server blips retry quietly in the background.
  • Equipment issues are back. The Equipment Issues section returned after the MTA moved elevator and escalator notices to a separate data feed—outages show the specific equipment, station, reason, and estimated return. The duplicate “EQUIPMENT” chips elsewhere were removed; the blue accessibility badges already carry that.
  • No backlog for new subscribers. First-time subscribers no longer receive a backlog of pushes for alerts that fired before they subscribed.

April 14, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Smoother motion. Animations follow a single consistent feel—quicker, calmer, without the little overshoots that crept into toggles, menus, and transitions. Arrival rows fade in with a gentle stagger, and countdowns crossfade numerically instead of popping.
  • A faster-exiting banner. The offline banner exits faster than it enters, so dismissing it never feels like it's in your way.

April 13, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Digest notifications. Weekend Digest (Friday @ 5 PM) and Workweek Digest (Sunday @ 5 PM) give you a heads-up about planned service changes before they happen.
  • Quiet hours. A new Timing section lets you choose which hours and days you want notifications. Digests always deliver regardless.

Improved

  • Notification settings polish. Refreshed icons and labels throughout the screen.

April 11, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • All Clear notifications. When the last alert on one of your lines resolves, a quick “🟢 All Clear” tells you service is back to normal. Tap it to jump to your Home tab.
  • Per-type toggles. Settings → Notifications lets you subscribe to Disruptions without Delays, turn off All Clear pushes, or any other combination. All three are on by default when you first enable notifications.

Improved

  • Pushes that lead with the line. Titles lead with the affected routes—“A/C/E · Skipping Stops 🔴”—and multi-line alerts read naturally: “2 & 5 · Delayed,” “2/5/6 · Delayed,” “2/5/7 & More · Delayed.” The Staten Island Railway shows as “SIR.”
  • Smarter notification taps. Tapping a push scrolls the Alerts tab to the exact alert and flashes a highlight—if a line filter was hiding it, the filter clears. Already resolved? A friendly “All clear” sheet quotes the original notification.
  • Favorites polish. Next-up arrival chips are square with a lighter background and slightly larger numbers, all three upcoming times share the same pill style (the big countdown calls out the next train), and stop cards get more breathing room. “Changes” is renamed “Disruptions” everywhere, and the Delays icon is a clock-with-exclamation.

Fixed

  • False “All clear” sheets. Tapping a push no longer shows “All clear” for alerts that are still active—the app waits for fresh data before deciding anything's resolved. And All Clear pushes don't fire when scheduled work is still pending on the line.
  • Stripped alert details. Alert cards show the full station list and routing details that were getting stripped out—and highlighted cards from push taps scroll into full view instead of hiding behind the header.
  • Cold-start taps. Tapping a push from a cold start reliably opens the Alerts tab instead of occasionally landing on the wrong one.
  • Mis-grouped delay alerts. Delay alerts caused by track maintenance were showing as “Future work” on Favorites—they show under “Delays” now, with the delay icon on affected rows.

April 10, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Push notifications. Get notified about delays, suspensions, or planned work on your lines. Choose which lines in Settings → Notifications—if you already have favorite stops, you're automatically subscribed to those lines. Tap a notification to jump straight to the alert.

Improved

  • Notifications that read naturally. The title shows the alert type and lines (“Delays: 2 Train”), and the body is a short sentence about what's going on (“Signal issue at West 4 St, affects uptown trains.”).
  • Real timing ranges. Alert badges show actual ranges—“Now → 9:50 PM” for active alerts, “9 PM → Tue” for scheduled ones, “Starts @ 9 PM” when there's no known end. Scheduled cards get a subtle border so they read as distinct.

Fixed

  • Stale alert copy. Older alert text could briefly show on launch before the latest version loaded. The MTA label also moved to the bottom-right, next to “Updated X ago.”

April 9, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Live ticking countdowns. Arrival countdowns tick down live between refresh cycles instead of updating every 30 seconds. Offline, they keep ticking from cached data for up to 5 minutes, then cards show an offline state so you're not misled by stale times.
  • A smarter offline banner. The banner shows how long you've been disconnected and whether it's estimating—and the refresh button shows a paused state when offline instead of spinning forever.

April 7, 2026

v1.0

Improved

  • Faster everywhere. Faster tab switching (Home and Search no longer reload when you flip back and forth), smoother Favorites scrolling, smoother map panning, and less background work when you're off the Home tab.
  • Honest offline states. Offline with no saved data, favorite stops show a clear offline indicator instead of misleading messages, alert chips say “No alerts data,” and the map stop sheet shows an offline state too. A header timestamp appears when arrival data is older than expected.
  • Alert card credibility. Cards show an “MTA” label so you can tell where data comes from, “Updated X ago” tracks when the MTA actually changed the alert, alerts not yet summarized say so, and dark mode cards get clearer hierarchy. A faster refresh cycle cuts data usage without sacrificing freshness.
  • Patience for weak signal. Better timeout handling—the app won't hang waiting on slow responses.

April 6, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Nearby stop cards. A scrollable row at the bottom of the Map updates as you pan—and tapping a pin pre-loads arrivals so data is ready when the sheet opens. Re-tap the Map tab to recenter on your location.

Improved

  • Future-tense alerts. Scheduled service changes read in future tense—no more confusion about whether it's happening now or later. Tap any rewritten card to flip to the original MTA language, and a new tooltip explains how we summarize alerts.
  • Location touches. The nearby-station banner on Favorites shows a “Near you now” label, and walking times on the Map measure from your location, not the map center.

April 4, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Nearby stops on the map. A persistent bottom sheet shows nearby stops with walking times—tap one to see live arrivals without leaving the map.
  • Near-station banner. When you're very close to a station, a floating banner appears on the Favorites tab for a quick arrivals check. Swipe it away if you don't need it.

April 1, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Background refresh. The app refreshes your arrival times and alerts in the background, so data is ready when you reopen—no more waiting for a fresh load after switching apps.

March 31, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Platform filter chips. Complex stations (Fulton St, Times Sq, Atlantic Av) show platform chips—tap “A C” to see only that platform's arrivals and alerts. Alert chips filter to match.

Improved

  • Sticky headers. Favorites, stop detail, and line detail get sticky headers with a frosted blur that fades in as you scroll. The Favorites header collapses smoothly, and re-tapping the tab icon scrolls back to top.
  • Stoplight accessibility colors. Accessibility status reads green (fully accessible), yellow (limited or service issue), red (not accessible)—and alert chips with many lines show a +X overflow count instead of cramming.
  • Smoother launches. The loading screen stays until your data is fully ready—no flash of empty content—and the app gives up on stuck requests sooner on bad signal. Behind the scenes, arrival data loads more efficiently with an automatic fallback if the primary source is unavailable, and we added monitoring on our side to catch issues early.
  • Alerts filter popover. Redesigned with a cleaner layout and Now/Future toggle labels—and platform alert sheets filter to the selected platform's lines.

Fixed

  • Banner overlap. The offline banner no longer overlaps headers across the app.

March 30, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Report bugs from anywhere. Tap the ladybug icon in the overflow menu on any screen—bug reports, feedback, and support requests submit directly from the app with automatic diagnostics attached.

Improved

  • Settings reorganized. Clearer sections—Customization, Support, Info, and Developer—plus a new Appearance page, and “Share Feedback,” “Report a Bug,” and “Get Help” open real submission forms. Overflow quick actions updated: “Edit Faves” and “Report.”

March 29, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Arrival display settings. Sort by time (soonest first) or fixed MTA color-group order, and group by route or not at all—ungrouped shows up to 5 arrivals on Home and 20 on Stop Detail. Find them in the overflow ⋯ menu.

Improved

  • Fresher station data. Station data updates are picked up automatically on app launch instead of waiting up to 24 hours, and the inactive routes section got a cleaner design with line chip and “None scheduled” label.

Fixed

  • Station complex groupings. Multi-platform stations like Fulton St and Union Square correctly show all lines and arrivals together.

March 27, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • Line picker in setup. Choose which lines you care about at each favorite stop. Returning users see the new steps with existing favorites pre-loaded—no re-picking everything.
  • “Tap on nearly anything.” A tooltip after setup helps new users discover how much of the app is tappable.

Improved

  • Smarter direction headers. Direction labels are driven by official station data instead of fragile name matching—more accurate borough labels on every line, with concrete destination names for east-west lines (J/Z, L) and the M at Manhattan and Queens stops.
  • Borough-grouped arrivals. Routes sharing the same uptown terminus borough appear together, with their own toggle and line chips.

March 26, 2026

v1.0

Added

  • A rebuilt Settings screen. Four focused sections—Customization, Support, Info, Developer—with a new Theme page (System/Light/Dark with live preview), a Content page to compare Tunnel Rat summaries vs raw MTA text, a Location page with permission status, and this very changelog.

Improved

  • M line intelligence. The M gets bespoke direction labels per borough—Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens North (Forest Hills side), and Queens South (Middle Village side)—and Line Detail groups its two Queens segments separately. J/Z trains read “Brooklyn & Queens” at Brooklyn stops, with direction arrows flipped to match their east-west travel.
  • Settings polish. Tightened row padding, section headers, and chevron styling throughout.

Fixed

  • Map header color. The map header appeared white instead of transparent in both light and dark mode—and the App Version row now confirms with a brief “Copied” when tapped.