SBB Preview 4+

No, don’t give us FEWER locations, give us MORE!

Jeez, SBB, the original Touch Timetable layout was limiting and frustrating enough, with a maximum of sixteen entries, plus “from” and “to”, and six “recently used” locations. Now you have removed the “recently used” locations altogether from the preview version, and reduced it to four in the standard version, while expanding the sixteen tiles from taking up two thirds of the screen to taking up three quarters of the screen FOR NO ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY. The new “personal tiles”, that each take up the space of TWO of the newly bloated sixteen tiles, and cannot be resized, reduced or removed, are more of a slap in the face than additional functionality.

The only reason that I can think for enlarging the sixteen tiles that were already bigger than they needed to be is to make the pictures look pretty. If that is the case, you at least need to provide a picture for EVERY SINGLE possible stop, in order to justify the waste of screen space. Instead, I have MORE of my screen space lost to blank squares that I cannot reduce, and a dramatic loss of functionality.

Please Please PLEASE allow the sixteen squares to be halved in height, so that we can have, say, 24 default locations with the “recent locations” restored, or 32 default locations with the new reduced functionality layout. This, as it is, is the worst of all worlds.

Developer Response ,

Hi there. Thank you for your detailed feedback and input. You can also create up to 20 custom fields in the new touch timetable. In addition, "Current location" and "from" and "to" are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Tap on one of the empty (larger) tiles, enter a location, then (as soon as the tile has a red border) you can move the border and adjust the size. Kind regards.

Awful update

This update has left me with stations on the touch timetable I never use, there seems to be no ability to remove them only to add new ones, please revert back to the original layout as this just doesn’t work for me

Update following your reply: You’re unable to delete the pre selected tiles, you can only select and delete the additional tiles you create yourself

Developer Response ,

Hi there. Thank you for using SBB Preview (beta test app for SBB Mobile). The new touch timetable is "work in progress" and not final. The touch timetable is "intelligent" - it shows the most relevant stations for you. If you want all these stations to be personalized, tap the pen at the bottom right and move the horizontal line all the way up. The preset stations disappear and free tiles for personalized setup (tile with a + in the middle) become active.

Incredibly good upgrades

This app release offers a significantly better UI than the existing SBB CFF app without compromising on the quantity of information provided. Touch swipe is a fantastic feature and the location services seem to have been improved to localize transit stops nearby. The app will be fantastic when the remaining features from the existing app are integrated.