The New Disney World Dining Reservation Change We Hope Is Actually a Glitch

If you’re planning a Disney World trip well in advance, then you’ll probably be booking your dining reservations before you arrive.

Advance dining reservations open 60 days before your vacation, and you can make them easily through the Disney World website or the My Disney Experience app. However, this week, we discovered a change that makes using the app a little bit more complicated.

For a while now, you’ve been able to make dining reservations entirely within the My Disney Experience app, as long as you’re in the booking window. The app is great for checking availability, and you can even use it to book a last-minute spot on the Walk-Up Waitlist for restaurants.

However, now, when selecting “check dining availability” from the “+” menu on My Disney Experience, instead of operating within the app, the dining reservations page now opens in an external browser. You get redirected to the Disney World website, where you may be prompted to log in and give location permissions (even if you’ve already gone through those steps in the app).

From there, the process is very similar to what it was in the app — select your party, date, time, and location for dining, then continue to the restaurant availability page. After choosing a restaurant, you can select add-ons and accessibility requests. For dietary requests, there’s a note in the reservation page that you should inform the wait staff at the restaurant of any allergies. (That one was a change made earlier in February 2026.)

Honestly, we find this change to be a bit annoying. It takes extra time that could be valuable if you’re attempting to snag hard-to-get reservations at that 60-day mark. This is a similar setup to the park reservation feature in the My Disney Experience app. When Annual Passholders or ticket holders have to make those reservations, the app still redirects to a browser window.

We’ll keep an eye on this system and see if it changes again. It’s possible that this change was made to deal with high booking demand for the Garden View Tea Room (reservations opened on February 19th), so hopefully it’ll go back to normal.