Disney World has revealed a sweeping set of updates coming to the My Disney Experience app over the coming months. From a full visual redesign of the homepage to a new Trip Checklist, simplified plan sharing, AI-powered search, and Spanish language support, the changes represent the most significant rethinking of the app’s guest-facing experience in years. The new updates are part of continued efforts by the app and website teams focused on making planning simpler, booking easier, and helping guests feel confident ahead of their vacations. Here’s everything new that’s coming to the My Disney Experience app soon!
My Disney Experience App Is Getting a Major Overhaul
In This Article
- New look and feel for the home screen
- Trip Checklist feature
- Trip Party plan sharing
- AI-powered search
- Spanish language support
- Recent app improvements & guest feedback
Recent App Improvements & Guest Feedback Wins
All of the changes listed below, and more changes to come, are aimed squarely at ensuring guests can plan confidently and easily. Disney says that its approach to updating the My Disney Experience app and Walt Disney World website is directly shaped by guest feedback. Disney even pulled back the curtain a bit to share some internal metrics on how recent app improvement changes have translated into easier planning for guests.
- Combining today’s plans and future plans into one single cohesive “My Plans” flow on the app improved ease of use by 8%
- Making the dining reservation booking flow easier in terms of search improved satisfaction by 5% and drove record-high website ratings
- The renaming of Lightning Lane and shifting from day-of booking to pre-arrival led to a double-digit gain in both ease of use and overall experience.
One of the most recent updates that Disney did not mention, which we think is worth highlighting, is allowing guests to finally make theme park reservations in the My Disney Experience app.
On the heels of those recent updates, Disney is poised to roll out key major updates to the My Disney Experience app in the coming weeks and months to make planning easier and help guests feel more confident ahead of their vacations. Here’s what to expect!
A New Look Built Around Your Trip
The biggest change guests will notice is a full redesign of the app’s home screen. The current home screen presents a mix of content at equal visual weight, making it difficult for guests to quickly find what’s relevant to their trip. The new design flips that, anchoring everything around the guest’s specific visit.
The redesigned home screen will feature a trip countdown, a trip checklist, resort reservation details, and park information, all front and center. Disney is also moving to a softer color palette, pulling back the visual noise that characterizes the current interface. The goal, as Disney put it during a recent briefing, is to make sure guests see exactly what they need, with everything at their fingertips.
Disney shared a mockup of the homepage with media at the panel, and it featured a very clean, minimalist design. It highlighted your trip details at a glance, along with a simple tab at the bottom of the page with links to “My Trip”, the in-app map, search, and a hamburger menu for deeper navigation. As with all screenshots shared with media, the final concept may differ.
As we’ve covered, Disney has been steadily improving the app over the past year, including a My Plans update that launched in October 2025 and a map functionality overhaul earlier that year. The redesign rolling out in the months ahead takes those incremental steps further, giving the app a coherent, trip-first structure for the first time.
Trip Checklist: Know What You Need to Do Before You Arrive
One of the updates that new visitors and Disney Parks veterans alike will enjoy is the Trip Checklist. Disney says it is designed to reduce the planning anxiety that first-time visitors and families with young children often feel. The checklist will surface key milestones in the order guests need to complete them, including booking dining reservations, making Lightning Lane selections, checking in online, and adding tickets to your digital wallet.
Critically, the checklist will also show guests exactly when their Lightning Lane booking window opens, something that has historically been tougher to find, with some guests using workarounds in the app. Disney confirmed the checklist is tailored to each guest’s specific trip details, so the actions and timing shown will reflect where they are in the planning process.
Disney’s Cruise Line app has included a similar checklist for some time, and the countdown clock feature that will accompany it has been one of the most popular features in that app. Both are now coming to My Disney Experience.
Trip Party: Sharing Plans Just Got a Lot Easier
Connecting with travel companions in the current app is a known pain point. The process requires guests to send an email, wait for an acceptance, and navigate the concept of “managed guests,” a system that has frustrated families and groups for years.
The new Trip Party feature replaces that with something far simpler. Guests will be able to pull up contacts directly from their phone and send a link to join their trip via text message. The recipient taps the link, signs in, and is added to the trip. From there, everyone in the Trip Party can see the shared plans automatically. No emails, no managed guest prompts, no waiting.
The concept that we were shown utilized the built-in Apple Share Sheet to share plans – a functionality that should be common for guests using that operating system. I’d imagine a similarly seamless functionality is present in Android devices.
AI-Powered Search
As we covered separately, AI-powered search is also coming to the My Disney Experience app. The upgraded search will generate a concise summary that answers the guest’s question directly at the top of the results. Guests can dig deeper if they want, but an answer that should fit the majority of queries will be immediate.
Disney demonstrated the feature with an example of searching for where to find chicken tenders at Magic Kingdom, a query that currently surfaces unrelated results. The new AI search returns the correct answer with a clear summary. The feature works with both short queries and longer, conversational questions.
Spanish Language Support
The My Disney Experience app has been available in English only since its launch. That is changing. Disney confirmed Spanish-language support is coming to the app, following the Walt Disney World website, which has offered multiple languages for some time. Additional languages may follow, but Spanish is the first to roll out, and it should roll out soon.
When to Expect the Changes
Disney confirmed these updates will roll out iteratively over the coming months, with Walt Disney World receiving them first. Disneyland will follow later in the year. No specific launch dates have been announced for individual features, but Disney indicated the rollout begins in the near term.
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