A new Opal Travel widget is now available on Apple devices, showing passengers service information from their favourite stops with greater convenience and fewer clicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly 50% of searches across trip planning apps and websites are people doing quick checks of public transport timetables. The widget helps to make these checks simpler and faster for passengers on the go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The feature is believed to be a first of its kind to be offered by transport officials in Australia. It is now available on iOS devices and is expected to be available on Androids in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By saving your favourite trip in the Opal Travel App, the widget automatically refreshes and shows the next three trip options with times and the platform, bus stand, or wharf number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new widget is one of several simple solutions introduced for Apple users in recent years, others include Apple Express Transit tap-on which allows passengers to tap on without unlocking their mobile, and disruption notifications that push updates about any network changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To add the widget, iOS users should update to the latest version of the Opal Travel in the App Store. Then choose a public transport route from your \u2018Saved Trips\u2019 or set up and save a new trip using the \u2018Next Service\u2019 option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To place the widget on their home screen users should touch and hold the screen to enter edit mode, then click the \u2018+\u2019 button to locate the Opal Travel widget and follow the prompts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Find out more about the Opal travel app<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Transport Minister Jo Haylen:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Opal app has around 850,000 users each month, and this new widget acts as a shortcut, meaning they can access timetable information that bit easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s a simple addition to our app that\u2019s putting more travel information in the palm of people\u2019s hands, like a personalised departure board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt may seem minor \u2013 but sometimes it\u2019s the little things that can have a big impact on making our lives a little bit more convenient when we\u2019re in a rush to get to work, school, or that first kick in the footy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Transport for NSW Acting Chief Technology Kurt Brissett:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is one of several ways we\u2019re making it simpler, clearer and quicker for passengers to check their travel times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can unlock travel information through your smart phone \u2013 but the most important is \u2018where do I need to be and when?\u2019, and you can now check that on your phone’s home screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s no limit to the number of widgets you can add, so you can have different boards for the different legs of your train, bus, metro, light rail or ferry route.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new Opal Travel widget is now available on Apple devices, showing passengers service information from their favourite stops with greater convenience and fewer clicks. Nearly 50% of searches across trip planning apps and websites are people doing quick checks of public transport timetables. The widget helps to make these checks simpler and faster for … Continue reading “New Opal app feature goes live for Apple users”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26724,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}