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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 croes »

Terretta wrote: post #82
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 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…

> The same is true in a physical card wallet.

That’s why Apple has to copy the problem for the wallet?

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

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Post by kenferry »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #131
DrewADesign wrote: post #85

While the author does mention the barriers to adoption, the premise— Apple was waiting for people to do something, but people weren’t doing it— subtly casts Apple as a passive entity in this scenario. The solution seems to be presented as Apple stepping in to make up for Developers’ inaction. If it’s been 14 years and there’s been very little adoption, this is clearly a UX problem. How many small venues or libraries…

What there really should be is a wallet equivalent of an ics file. It doesn't need to support everything, static images would be enough for most use cases. Advanced features could then require the current model. But that would require collaboration, and standards, which seem to have gone away as smart phones came in.

This has existed since the first version, except it needs to be signed with a valid apple cert.

A .pkpass file is a zipped directory that has a json file and some assets. There's no need to have a more limited version, a pass is already very limited.

The issue is spoofing. Major event ticketers are unwilling to publish passes if there's nothing to stop someone else from publishing a pass that is indistinguishable from their's and thus is an avenue for fraud.

The difference with events is that an ics file is not something someone's going to try to sell you or that you'd want to buy. But anyway, all Apple would have to do is stop checking the signing.

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

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Post by jdhwosnhw »

seldomcomment wrote: post #192

This reminds me of WalletWallet [1], posted few months ago on HN [2]. [1] https://walletwallet.alen.ro/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345745

That’s because, as the article explicitly states, this post is by walletwallet’s developer

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

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Post by avs733 »

seldomcomment wrote: post #192

This reminds me of WalletWallet [1], posted few months ago on HN [2]. [1] https://walletwallet.alen.ro/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345745

Its a blog post from the WalletWallet team about the upcoming changes that have only been reported by Bloomberg news

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

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Post by gortok »

mh- wrote: post #163
gortok wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. I have only a vertical ordering available in Apple wallet. A card can be above another card or below another card. I have 3d physicality in a wallet that Apple wallet does not replicate.

Ah, so two+ columns vs one.

Two columns vertically, but four columns deep in 3D space.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

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.

Nothing like having every flight you ever booked continuously stored forever. So easy to say “gee this flight was three days ago, maybe they don’t need the boarding pass anymore”. I just checked and I somehow have a covid test from 2022 stuck in there.

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

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Post by jqpabc123 »

alistairSH wrote: post #165
aurareturn wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Because the cards aren't different cards. In my case, I have a personal card and a shared card from the same bank. The card type is the same, one just happens to have my spouse as a co-owner. Some banks do allow you to pick a card look/image. Most don't. But whatever the case, Apple really should allow tagging cards in the Wallet with a small icon/emoji/something. It doesn't need to be fancy - just enough to visually…

just enough to visually distinguish two otherwise visually similar cards.

How about a simple, old fashioned text label for each card?

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