I also struggled to get the traffic button for a day or two for each new phone device that I connected. Once I understood it to be that way, I stopped worrying and just waited it out. Now it works perfectly well, all the time, on all phone devices.

Because the vast majority of our customers do not have a traffic receiver and it's counter-productive having a top-level button that people cannot actually use.

Tim,

Thank you for the clarification. I‘ll try on my next flight and in simulation mode with spawn aircraft.

I would vote for making the ‘traffic button’ visible, regardless of actually receiving traffic. This would minimise the head-down time in cockpit while flying and in conflict with oncoming traffic.

Eric

Edit: Just tried in simulation mode, and yes, it works! But I still do not understand, why the button is only visible after traffic has been detected.

The button is only visible if you are actually receiving traffic data.

I tried to get the full screen traffic radar on the display of my iPhone, but didn’t find the ‘Traffic button’ described in the manual. Is it missing or did I overlook it? I’ve tried while flying and in simulation mode.

Eric
SkyDemon for iPhone 3.12.7.187

The manual reads:

If you have a smartphone running SkyDemon, the Traffic Radar is
not displayed automatically in the corner of the screen, but
instead it can be viewed as a full-screen display, which you might
like to use as a complement to the normal map view on your main tablet. To bring up the full-screen Traffic instrument on your phone just open the main navigation menu by tapping the blue SkyDemon icon in the top left-hand corner of the screen, then choose ‘Traffic’.