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iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by reaperducer »

ravenstine wrote: post #99
Terretta wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same is true in a physical card wallet. An 80 year old with early onset challenges can work this wallet, pick a card, and then hold the phone to the reader at a store. It's all co-opting "familiar" actions for them, not tech-like, which means they can do it. The biggest UX issue Apple has for that persona isn't the wallet, it's the lack of physical home button. Everyone in their 70s and up seems to be given pause…

What does an 80 year old (or anyone really) need with more than one or two cards on a daily basis where this would be an issue? Not being flippant; I legit want to know what leads to this. I have multiple cards but there's only one I use 99% of the time, and it's pink so it stands out.

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Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by ncr100 »

timacles wrote: post #107
kilian wrote: post #71

The wallet app UI is the peak of Apple's 'single 20y/o in sf' design. Anyone that has multiple card from the same bank (because, say, you have a personal account and a shared account with your partner) has to do the "pick between the two identical looking top 20px of cards" dance every time they use Wallet to pay for something. It is mind-boggling that the current UI persists.

When I first started using it I thought something was broken

Which something? The identical-ness of your particular collection of cards, in the wallet?

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by ghaff »

Silamoth wrote: post #56
intrasight wrote: post #14

Could someone explain what a "pass" is in this context?

Basically anywhere you need to scan a QR code to get in, you can have a pass in Apple Wallet. I’ve never stored payment info in Apple Wallet. But every time I take a flight, I store my boarding pass in Apple Wallet. It’s than printing a physical boarding pass, it automatically updates metadata (e.g., flight times, gates), and it’s nicer than just a picture. Previously, you could only add passes if the company support…

I basically only fly one airline. But I generally try to store train passes, airline tickets, show tickets, etc. in the wallet when I can especially if I can't easily print a backup print copy--which is often an effort if I'm traveling.

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by rootusrootus »

chuckadams wrote: post #43

It's kind of nice that I can put my Safeway and Soopercard in there now, but that still means having to scan the barcode, and frankly it's less cumbersome to just hand my physical card to the cashier. The only store that seems to have figured out how to automatically add their card to NFC payments is Maverik gas stations.

> my physical card

Sure, if you carry the physical card. But that's exactly what I get from having it on the phone -- I don't want an inch-thick wallet from times of old, I want to carry as little as possible. I have a tiny magsafe wallet with ID, one physical credit card, and an airtag card. Everything else lives on the phone.

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by ncr100 »

amluto wrote: post #93
kilian wrote: post #71

The wallet app UI is the peak of Apple's 'single 20y/o in sf' design. Anyone that has multiple card from the same bank (because, say, you have a personal account and a shared account with your partner) has to do the "pick between the two identical looking top 20px of cards" dance every time they use Wallet to pay for something. It is mind-boggling that the current UI persists.

The flow for removing cards is also a fantastic exercise in slowness.

How so?

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by tantalor »

Liquid_Fire wrote: post #63

> A few places where we still help, even after iOS 27 ships: > Google Wallet. Create a Pass is iPhone-only. Roughly half of the wallet-using world is on Android, and our generator builds Google Wallet passes from the same form. What does this actually mean? Google Wallet has had a button to add your own passes for many years. How is the feature described here different?

Yep. Lots of things are supported:

https://support.google.com/wallet/answer/12060038

Anything with a bar code or QR code will work. It's not complicated.

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by ncr100 »

dweekly wrote: post #62
randusername wrote: post #10

What a relief. My awful workaround was photos of all my membership barcodes labeled with a sharpie so that I can search "Gym" or "Library" or whatever to pull them up from OCR indexing.

I've got a Photos album called Keys.

Photos on Google has a Document image recognition category too. <3

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by aurareturn »

kilian wrote: post #71

The wallet app UI is the peak of Apple's 'single 20y/o in sf' design. Anyone that has multiple card from the same bank (because, say, you have a personal account and a shared account with your partner) has to do the "pick between the two identical looking top 20px of cards" dance every time they use Wallet to pay for something. It is mind-boggling that the current UI persists.

Why doesn’t the bank design a slightly different top for different cards?

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by rootusrootus »

flymasterv wrote: post #57
dewey wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Wallet might be the most used feature for many on the iPhone, especially if they pay with their phone. What makes you think it's looking for a problem to solve? I think Wallet is great and the adoption in certain areas like boarding passes is almost 100% and it beats digging through email to find some pdf and zooming in on some QR code when you have to present it (Hoping that your screen doesn't rotate in the…

I guess I consider Apple Pay via Wallet, which I use, to be different from Gym Membership via Wallet, which just doesn't seem worth the effort? Maybe I'm unusual.

I don't like carrying physical cards around for every little thing. To me carrying a gym card around is way more effort than storing a QR code on the phone.

Re: iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Post by reaperducer »

basch wrote: post #36
randusername wrote: post #10

What a relief. My awful workaround was photos of all my membership barcodes labeled with a sharpie so that I can search "Gym" or "Library" or whatever to pull them up from OCR indexing.

Pass2U Wallet works great, but like many apps, it really should just be a feature to begin with. You can also make passes for other people and send them / share them. Looks like someone else recommended a competitor Pass4 Wallet as well, may need to go compare.

Pass2U Wallet works great, but like many apps, it really should just be a feature to begin with.

The weird thing is that this was a feature when Wallet was first introduced. You could create a URL that would add a pass to a wallet. There were web sites that helped out with it. I still have some of the passes I created this way a decade or more ago.

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