Disney is retiring the Play Disney Parks app effective September 16. On that date the app will be pulled from the App Store and Google Play, and users will no longer be able to log in.

The app has powered a long list of interactive extras across Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World since 2018, from Star Wars: Datapad inside Galaxy's Edge to queue games, park trivia, and digital achievements. Most of that goes away in less than a month.

What Goes Away on September 16

The Play Disney Parks app currently runs several in-park activities at both resorts. According to reporting from Disney Parks journalist Scott Gustin on X, the following are tied to the app that is being retired:

• Star Wars: Datapad in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, including hacking droids, scanning crates, tuning transmissions, and translating Aurebesh
• Attraction queue games at select rides, including Toy Story Mania!, Slinky Dog Dash, Space Mountain, and Peter Pan's Flight
• Park trivia and themed music and sound playlists
• Digital achievements and collectible badges earned over the years
• Disney Fab 50 Quest, the augmented reality character hunt at Walt Disney World
• The DuckTales World Showcase Adventure app component at EPCOT

The Star Wars: Datapad will be retired along with the app. Disney has not announced a replacement for it.

Batuu Bounty Hunters Is Sticking Around

There is one notable survivor. Star Wars: Batuu Bounty Hunters will remain available after September 16, continuing to run through MagicBand+ and the existing screens placed throughout Black Spire Outpost.

What changes is how you start and track it. The app component of Batuu Bounty Hunters stops working on September 16, so the MagicBand+ and the in-land screens become the way to play. If you have been using your phone to track targets and credits, that piece is going away.

DuckTales World Showcase Adventure Is a Question Mark

The DuckTales World Showcase Adventure at EPCOT has been down for refurbishment for the last several weeks. When asked what happens to it after the app is retired, Disney said there is no information to share at this time.

That leaves the EPCOT scavenger hunt in limbo. The full activity is currently unavailable, though some of the game's interactive elements around World Showcase are still firing. DuckTales World Showcase Adventure took over from Agent P's World Showcase Adventure in 2022 and has run on the Play Disney Parks app ever since.

Back Up Your Achievements Before the App Shuts Off

This is the part that matters if you have played for years. Once the app is retired on September 16, you will not be able to log in, which means saved progress and achievement collections go with it.

A few things worth doing before then:

1. Open the app and screenshot your achievements and any collectible badges you want to keep
2. Capture your Star Wars: Datapad progress, including scanned crates, hacked droids, and translated signs
3. Save any Fab 50 or trivia milestones you want a record of
4. Do it before September 16, since there is no announced way to export or transfer any of it

Disney has not said whether any of these activities move into the main My Disney Experience or Disneyland apps.

The End of an Eight-Year Run

Play Disney Parks launched in 2018, arriving alongside the opening of Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios. The pitch was simple: turn standby lines and walking time into something to do.

It got a lot more ambitious in 2019, when Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opened and the Datapad turned the whole land into a playable layer. Guests could hack droids, scan cargo crates, and translate Aurebesh signage, and for a lot of Star Wars fans that was a real part of visiting Batuu.

More followed, including Batuu Bounty Hunters with the launch of MagicBand+ in 2022 and the DuckTales takeover of the World Showcase scavenger hunt the same year. The app was still getting feature updates as recently as late 2025.

What We Know So Far

Here is the short version:

• Play Disney Parks is retired on September 16, 2026
• The app comes off app stores that day and logins stop working
• Star Wars: Datapad is retired with no announced replacement
• Batuu Bounty Hunters continues via MagicBand+ and in-land screens
• DuckTales World Showcase Adventure's future is unclear, with no update from Disney
• Queue games, trivia, and achievements end with the app

Disney has not detailed what, if anything, replaces the app's activities in the parks. We will update this post as more is announced.