Disney Pulling Play Disney Parks App on September 16

Disney is retiring the Play Disney Parks app on Sept. 16 2026. The app currently powers several interactive experiences at Walt Disney World, and once it's gone, you'll lose access to your login and saved progress.

Illustrated park map graphic from the Play Disney Parks app, featuring Big Thunder Mountain, Sleeping Beauty Castle, a sailing ship, and Frontierland's Shooting Exposition

Here's what the Play Disney Parks app currently supports:

• Star Wars: Datapad
• Batuu Bounty Hunters
• DuckTales World Showcase Adventure
• Attraction queue games
• Parks trivia
• Digital achievements

What Happens to Each Experience

Batuu Bounty Hunters will stay open after the app retires. It'll keep running through MagicBand+ and the screens already set up around the land. Only the app portion shuts down on Sept. 16 — the rest of the experience continues as normal.

Star Wars: Datapad will retire along with the app. There's no word yet on a replacement.

DuckTales World Showcase Adventure at EPCOT has been down for refurbishment over the last few weeks, and Disney says there is no information to share at this time on its future.

A Brief History of the App

Disney announced Play Disney Parks in April 2018 as a way to fill queue wait times with interactive games. The app launched on June 28, 2018, alongside the opening of Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios. At launch, it included in-queue games at Toy Story Mania!, Peter Pan's Flight, Space Mountain, and Slinky Dog Dash, plus trivia and digital achievements.

The Play Disney Parks app shown on an iPhone alongside the app icon

The app expanded through 2018 and 2019, adding activities at Disney's Art of Animation Resort and Disney's Animal Kingdom, along with sponsored games near Splash Mountain and Epcot's Kidcot locations. Disney also let guests convert certain achievements into physical collectible pins for a limited time.

Star Wars Rise of the Resistance Jobs in the Play Disney Parks App

The app's biggest feature arrived with Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in August 2019. The Star Wars: Datapad turned your phone into an in-world device, letting you hack door panels, scan cargo crates, translate the in-universe language, and interact with screens and props throughout the land. When Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance opened in December 2019, Disney added two more Datapad experiences tied to the attraction's storyline.

Updates slowed after 2020 as Disney shifted its digital focus toward Genie and Lightning Lane with My Disney Experience.