Google Maps Adds Code for Destination and Line Filters in Departure Boards [APK Teardown]

When you’re checking a station’s departures, finding a service heading your way is the next question. Google Maps is adding code for destination and line filtering to its existing transit departure board, with labels covering the search itself, clearing a filter, and an empty result.

The broader capability is already public, and Google’s help page documents station departures. The departure-board feature has been in the app’s code since June 18, 2026. Our teardown found strings extending that work in this build; public rollout of the search and filtering additions remains unverified.

Search by destination or line

The board gains prompts for both “Search destination” and “Search destination or line.” The second label explicitly includes a line as a search target, alongside a destination.

The search sheet also gets a “From %1$s” title. This ties the search to a departure point: the station you’re checking while looking for services heading elsewhere. These three labels describe the search’s scope and its station-specific context:

Clear the destination filter

A separate accessibility label reads “Clear destination filter.” It names a control for removing the destination restriction, giving the board a way back to a broader departure view when you want to change what you’re checking.

The filter has its own clearing action in the departure-board strings:

A clearer message when no departures match

The update also accounts for queries that have no departures to show. Its message names the destination through a placeholder, rather than leaving you with an unexplained empty list:

The “right now” wording describes the current departure result for that query. It does not say that the station never serves that destination—a useful distinction when you’re checking where you can head next.

Destination and line search would give the existing board a more direct job: finding the departures that take you where you need to go.

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