Now On Tap Aims To Ease Holiday Stress With New Flight, Package Tracking Feature

Now on Tap aims to ease holiday stress with new flight, package tracking feature

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Published 16 Dec 2015

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Now on Tap might save you a few steps with some of those usual holiday chores like checking a flight status or tracking packages.

According to ’s Inside Search blog, should someone text you a flight number you’ll be able to touch hold the home button (the usual procedure for launching Now on Tap) get a card with updated status information.

flights on tap — Get flight details quickly by launching Now on Tap.

Same goes for packages: launch Now on Tap when you have an email with shipping information you’ll see tracking information.

Should you break away from the crowds for a moment decide to read some news, there’s another new tool you can put to use: launch Now on Tap while reading you’ll see suggestions for other articles about the same topic.

now on tap news2 — en reading news, Now on Tap will suggest additional stories.

The new features appear to be coming from the server side, so no update to the app is needed.

The impact on you: recently uncovered a number of surprising ways Now on Tap can be helpful. lling up related news topics via search was on the list, but ’s now improved this area by suggesting actual articles. Now on Tap is one of those services is constantly tweaking trying to improve, so stay watchful you may spot something new.