How would they have known, even in the event I used them to book the flight?
Guess they did not and now will not
I am going to assume personally that this was an abandoned experiment and the strings were lingering unused and now spotted during new changes
I believe some airlines put the reference number in the transaction data. Maybe they were able to scrape/correlate that.
Still think itās a cool idea. Would love to know some more about it!
Hereās a bit of info, I guess theyāve built on this
Does that still work? None of my flights including a BA booking donāt have these details
I donāt know, hopefully one of the staff can tell us.
Are you booking via any sort of third party?
Nope all direct. easyJet, BA and KLM recently used
Probably because there was a guy on here, who said he requested unlocks every other day, and thought it was normal 
Version: 2.36.0 
Changelog: https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-for-android-beta-channel-changelog/10207/995?u=nexusmaniac
Some very interesting changes packed in this weekās update 
16 changes this week 
<string name="energy_quote_unavailable_area">Octopus Energy is not available in your area</string>
Monzo can now let customers know whether theyāre eligible for Octopus energy 
<string name="external_card_truelayer">truelayer</string>
<string name="external_cards_onboarding_amex_connected">Amex is now connected</string>
<string name="external_cards_onboarding_amex_connected_subtitle">You can now see your credit card balance in your Account.</string>
After my post here https://community.monzo.com/t/credit-card-inside-monzo/60225?u=nexusmaniac, I am happy to share that the strings show some significant progress
Controversial change, perhaps, this weekā¦
<string name="loan_usp_from_pot_header">Reach your Pot goal sooner</string>
<string name="pot_goal_loan_promotion">Reach your Pot goal sooner</string>
<string name="pot_goal_loan_promotion_button_text">Learn More</string>
<string name="pot_goal_loan_promotion_message">You're eligible for a loan of up to %s to help you hit your Pot goal.</string>
<string name="pot_goal_loan_promotion_title">Reach your Pot goal sooner</string>
#opinion, I donāt think that Monzo should push loans for people who want to reach their pot goal 
from my perspective a pot goal is something manageable / controllable, not something I think I would ever need a loan for 
Iām interested to hear what others think though! 
Would this be useful for you?
(Bear in mind that thereās nothing in the actual app, yet. This is likely part of an A/B test)
And to wrap things up on a super happy note
Thereās pot history 
<string name="pot_history_action">History</string>
This can be reached by tapping āHistoryā or the āDepositsā āWithdrawalsā and āRound upsā boxes
Pretty swish 
Agree 100% but I want to wait to see exactly what theyāre doing. Having a name but no details could well mean we are thinking completely the wrong thing
Agreed, I donāt think itās good practice to encourage people who want to save to reach their goal to take out a loan to reach it faster. Thatās quite irresponsible in my view, and I strongly hope that theyāll reconsider this. Iām conscious about the fact that loans will be important for Monzo to reach profitability, but this, in my view, goes too far - I wouldnāt advocate profitability at any cost.
Absolutely! 
I donāt want to start shouting at Monzo about something I canāt be 100% sure is accurate 
but the way it reads leads me to assume what the change indicates 
But I certainly trust Monzo enough that I donāt feel theyāre doing anything intentionally āsketchyā 
the way I use pots wouldnāt welcome the offering of a loan but I cannot speak for every use case 
Itāll be interesting to see whether Monzo blog about it or show some more details in a sneak-peak thread in the future
Just to echo @Rat_au_van, itās purely speculation at this stage I donāt doubt that Monzo are handling this in a fair and positive way as opposed to preying on anybody whoās desperate to hit that goal - whatever it may be 
I think the offer of a loan to meet a pot goal would only make sense if the ability to include a target date for a pot goal is built.
In that scenario, people might take up the offer of a loan to pay for a holiday they need to pay for on the pot goal target date or new phone released on the pot goal target date.
A pot goal target date would also make it easier for Monzo to identify people who might want one of these loans (eg: people with a pot called āHolidayā or āSkiingā or ānew phoneā who donāt look like theyāre going to reach their goal before their target date after scheduled transfers into the pot are taken into account) and so reduce the chances of Monzo accidentally annoying people who are on track to meet their goal targets.
Completely agree with this. I imagine Monzo would only send these loan suggestions to people who have met Monzoās credit check requirements and so are eligible for their loans anyway.
It should do if the airline sends it! This data is optional for airlines to include and only shows up when the transaction settles a few days after it was originally made.
This feature was highly experimental and in the end, not enough airline transactions included the data to justify building it out much further for now. The strings removals are just cleaning up some of the concepts that were never fully built for what we could do with the data if it were reliably available.
Version: 2.36.1
Changelog: Monzo for Android - Beta Channel Changelog šµ
Changes:
<boolean name="truelayer" value="false" /> - New 
<boolean name="account_v2_enabled" value="true" /> - Changed 
(Rollout basis)
String Changes:
<string name="locked_pot_unlock_message">If you do, weāll move all the money back into your main balance and close this Pot.</string>
<string name="locked_pot_unlock_title">Are you sure you want to unlock this Pot?</string>
<string name="pot_detail_unlock_title">Unlock Pot and withdraw</string>
<string name="unlock_pot_action">Yes, unlock and close this Pot</string>
<string name="unlock_pot_dismiss">No, keep it locked</string>
Locked pots are the only changes in this release, as far as I can see 
Matches exactly what Iāve covered in this thread: Unlocking your own Monzo Pot š 
I would have thought if you have a pot named new phone and it does not have enough money for when the new phone is released, you wait longer untill you do have the money saved.
Taking out a loan so you can have the latest handset on release day is a bit irresponsible.
In that case yes i agree with you.
But what about a ācar insuranceā pot and you havent met the goal amount in time to pay for your renewal?
There is a valid case i think
Completely agree, but it only makes sense if Monzo add target dates for pot goals.
Seems like you can unlock pots yourself now. And the new account screen has been more widely rolled out.
Still no indication a pot is locked from the new account screen, though.
Deleting pots seems to bug out. It returns you to the pot edit screen of the pot you just deleted. Returning to the account screen eventually deletes it. Trying to edit from the pot screen results in an error.
Certainly can 
I posted more about that down below
New account screen is looking fantastic 
Have you also got it?
Ahhh. 
Yeah the account screen is better. Guess Iād echo the comments about the Add Money button and positioning of the loans/overdrafts.
The add money button could be moved to the pin reminder and card management buttons but Iād understand if it was more obvious as is for new users initially.
Iād argue the borrowing section should only appear above pots if it is actively being used.
I guess Iād also want the next iteration to reduce the amount of screen space used for the skeuomorphic card, too.