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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 gib444 »

zimpenfish wrote: post #72
lxgr wrote: post #26

Finally! An option to override automatic (un)archival of passes is also desperately needed. Some passes just don’t expire based on time, and too many pass creators are too incompetent to put the correct time in even if they do. Airlines in particular are prone to things like using local time in a field expecting UTC, which has made boarding passes auto-archive hours before leaving for the airport for me…

> An option to override automatic (un)archival of passes is also desperately needed. PREACH. If you buy an open return (any time within 30 days of outward), Avanti set the expiry on both wallet passes to be the outward day. Which means your "valid for 30 days" ticket disappears almost immediately. Absolute shambles.

Probably intentional. Train companies do loads of shenanigans with tickets and pricing

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

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Post by bombcar »

Invictus0 wrote: post #89
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…

This is silly. "It matches a 70 year old's muscle memory" should not be the sole test of good design; if it were, then we would be plugging mouses and keyboards into our phones.

As we more and more mandate smartphones to live, we need to take accessibility into account. Watching "the olds" (which we are all fated to become someday unless something intervenes) fight technology is eye-opening; especially when you realize that you are starting to fight it.

I never knew there was a virtual home button available in iOS; but apparently there is.

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

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Post by bombcar »

eNV25 wrote: post #167
mvdwoord wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First thing I noticed too, as I have multiple cards from the same bank. I also noticed they show you last digits of the ... CARD number, not the account number which would be tremendously more helpful. But I figured out you can put little icons on the cards. Which my bank did automatically for my business account. I added a little person icon for my personal account. Maybe bank specific though but definitely super du…

That's ridiculous. The card number has nothing to do with the account number.

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. My debit card from my credit union is easy to map to the account as they share digits, but other debit cards from other institutions are completely unrelated.

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

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Post by Forgeties79 »

gortok wrote: post #88
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…

But it’s not true of a physical wallet. I have 8 locations in my bi-fold wallet I can place any given card, orientation-wise. Lower left, lower right, upper left, upper right, inside left, inside right, dollar bills left, dollar bills right.

I don’t know about you but I can’t possibly remember what’s in every fold and pocket because most of the stuff is used infrequently but is still necessary to have on me (health insurance card, for instance).

I basically only know what’s in one or two places. I just end up rifling through everything until I find it

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

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Post by WorldMaker »

aczerepinski wrote: post #144

As long as we're innovating, how about adding tap to pay to the physical apple cards?

If you have an Apple Card they already assume that you have an iPhone to tap to pay with. Why pay for hardware in the card that duplicates hardware your phone already does better?

(Better as in Phone tap to pay has an extra layer of security that card tap to pay does not. But also yes, cynically, better for Apple because Apple gets a small cut in Phone tap to pay to help pay for that extra layer of security.)

Using an Apple Watch for tap to pay is really nice, for what it is worth.

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

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Post by bombcar »

mikepurvis wrote: post #132
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.

I'm 39M and have ended up with a bunch of different credit cards; I get annoyed picking between them even without the additional complication of them being identical in appearance. For me it's my daily driver, my Costco branded card, my airline's amex card, my USD denominated card, and my work-issued card. There are also two ATM/debit cards in there which I'll occasionally choose at small merchants where I know the C…

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

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Post by bombcar »

jqpabc123 wrote: post #200
alistairSH wrote: post #165

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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?

For all I know there is something like that, but it'll be buried in settings, probably in accessibility, where nobody ever goes.

Discoverability of options on the iPhone is fraught with danger and distrust, I learned about CarPlay widgets a few days ago and I've used it for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUminiQjtM

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

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Post by bombcar »

yieldcrv wrote: post #78
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.

long hold to re-arrange your rearrange what your default card is - but to the bottom of the stack - is dumb

Apple has my location at every moment of my life, from birth to natural death, and they can't switch the default card based on the store I'm in?

Will wonders never cease.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

bombcar wrote: post #213
eNV25 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's ridiculous. The card number has nothing to do with the account number.

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. My debit card from my credit union is easy to map to the account as they share digits, but other debit cards from other institutions are completely unrelated.

This whole comment section looks to be turning into a "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Credit Cards" blog post.

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

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Post by OJFord »

ncr100 wrote: post #112
timacles wrote: post #107

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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?

Well, I don't know what it looks like in Apple Wallet, because I use Google Wallet, but for the same reason I'm struggling to imagine the problem because there the cards are pretty large – maybe ⅔ real card size on my Pixel 10 – and in a carousel at the top. So you can see clearly which one the active one is, and just swipe between them if it's not the one you want.

Easier than my physical wallet tbh, where they're behind each other, which I say begrudgingly because I've long held out, only starting to use the app a couple of weeks ago.

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