I don't know if it was an experiment but there were signs prominently posted advising all travelers to keep their shoes on. My companion also did not have to re

I don't know if it was an experiment but there were signs prominently posted advising all travelers to keep their shoes on. My companion also did not have to remove her laptop before screening, but they did pull her aside to look at it after the X-ray. There were no bins, passengers were expected to put their phones and loose change into a pocket of their carry on, then I just walked through a metal detector and it was done. The line was very long but moved extremely quickly. There was a dog working the line, so perhaps it was an instance of this: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/shoes-on-feet-laptops-in-bags-tsa-now-waves-passengers-around-body-scanners https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/shoes-on-fee...