Make Favorites usable
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I'm a pilot and I really like Windy (Premium) as a tool for flight planning. I mostly use the Android app.
The Favorites feature is helpful but in it's current form it leaves a lot of room for improvement. Here are my main usability issues:- Make the list sortable (please). Having the airports of the day on top of the list would be a huge time saver.
- When I select an item (usually an airport) to check the details and webcams or NOTAMS there is no way to navigate back to the favorites list. Instead you have to select the favorites view again from the home screen and the app downloads all the (very handy) details (METAR) again. This takes quite some time.
- If you remove an entry the Favorite overlay freezes. All you can do is close it. This seems to be a bug.
Thank you
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@sigristu Hello, thank you for your suggestions about our panel of Favorites. Regarding to the first point, you can Pin to top any element in your Fav list to get this location to the top of the list. Also you can add any Fav item to homepage, so it is displayed immediately as a widget, when you open the app.
Regarding to your second point, we can discuss it at our first meeting of 2026. You are right that this behavior is not user friendly at all.
To your third point, can you elaborate a bit on this?
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@Suty Thanks for the feedback
The pin feature is what I use now but then sorting in general and within the pinned favorites would really be helpful.Thanks for looking in the second point.
Regarding the 3rd point I created a screen video. To reproduce scroll thru favorites, then delete a favorite. After the delte you cannot use favorites anymore (no scrolling, no clicking). I use Windy 48.0.2 on Android 16 (patch level November 1).
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@sigristu Okay, thank you for the video. I will go through it and forward it to our devs. Thank you for all the information.
