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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 WorldMaker »

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.

Part of it is why carry a physical wallet anymore when your phone (and Apple Watch) can store all of your cards? There are even US States now that let you store your Driver's License in Apple Wallet. (And a version of Digital ID based on a US Passport that works for TSA and sometimes but not always US Customs.) There's an increased ability to leave the house just carrying your phone and not a physical wallet.

In a gym context specifically: a lot of gym wear doesn't have pockets. Being able to leave your phone and physical wallet at home or in a locker and use your watch (which you also use for workout tracking) for every membership card swipe, vending machine electrolyte/protein drink purchase, and gym class ticket can be very convenient.

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

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Post by jqpabc123 »

bombcar wrote: post #217
jqpabc123 wrote: post #200

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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

From my limited experience, Apple often denies the obvious for the sake of asthetics.

For example, the simple utility of a [Backspace] key.

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

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Post by jermaustin1 »

bombcar wrote: post #203
jermaustin1 wrote: post #174

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Same here. I'm in the US. I actually thought Credit/Debit cards had to have YOUR "full" name on them. My wife and I share MANY accounts, and none of our cards have a "shared" name on it.

The only information sent to the card processor is the swipe (number expiration date) and sometimes the zip code and verification code on the back (if entered by hand).

When my wife worked retail (20+ years ago), she had to verify the name on the card with the name on the machine with the name on their ID. They caught a decent number where the machine had a different name pop up than the card showed. And WAY more when comparing both to their ID.

They called her "The Bulldog" because of how vigilant she was about it. That store lead the region in CC Fraud. But soon they were the bottom of the region in shrink and loss prevention.

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

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Post by circuit10 »

cormorant wrote: post #50

Who's to say the business that issued the ticket will accept your homemade imitation? with "adjustable styles, images, colors, and text fields"?

It works fine if scanned by a machine though (ticket gate, self checkout etc.)

I've used a third party app for this for a UK weekly pass train ticket you could only buy physically, but if you buy it on a train rather than at a station they can't print you a ticket with a magnetic strip and they have to give you one with a barcode (technically an Aztec code), which you can then scan onto your phone and use at the gate. But I kept the original ticket with me too and would use that if a person asked to inspect it

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

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Post by thedougd »

dpoloncsak wrote: post #185
thdr wrote: post #181

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> but the problem isn't, IMO, as bad as you make out. But it is exactly as bad as they describe it. My bank doesn't provide color options for my cards, and there is no way to distinguish my two cards aside from the displayed four digits.

...so you keep the one you primarily use in the front of your card slot in your wallet, and the one you don't use often behind your other cards. Apple wallet solves this in a similar way, letting you arrange the order

I didn't know I could do that, so I just gave it a try.

First instinct, double tap the side button to open Wallet. Couldn't rearrange the cards there. So,I opened Settings app and couldn't rearrange the cards there. Finally, I opened the Wallet app and found I could rearrange cards there, though there's no visual indicators that I can. I accidentally changed my default card on the first attempt.

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Post by ghaff »

And literally (at least in the correct meaning of the term) I just spent 30 minutes trying to get a theater ticket into my wallet from my computer and was able to do so only after I switched to my phone. I'll make a printout anyway which would probably work if push came to shove in spite of what the email says. But I just don't love that you're fsckd if something happens to your phone. As I said in another message. I'll probably buy another phone sooner than I would have otherwise just so I have a reasonably contemporary packup.

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

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Post by ridgeguy »

delecti wrote: post #171
brandon272 wrote: post #156

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> The biggest UX issue Apple has for that persona isn't the wallet, it's the lack of physical home button. I'm in my 40s and don't have much trouble with reaching Home by swiping up from the bottom. But anecdotally, when I observe a person who is 65+ operate their iPhones, 9 times out of 10 they experience problems swiping up from bottom to reach Home. The swipe up does nothing, presumably because they aren't startin…

The hands of older people are also just literally less compatible with a capacitive touchscreen, because skin retains less moisture as we age. If you've ever seen an older person licking their finger before turning the page of a book, that's why.

Also, fine motor coordination often declines with age. Can make it hard to do a swipe or hit a key reliably in the first try.

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Post by croes »

somehnguy wrote: post #64
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 been using Pass4Wallet for the last few years to create Wallet entries for local clubs I'm apart of. It's actually better than native passes in some cases because you can add custom info to the entry, like a gate code. It's really flexible in terms of barcodes, QR codes, etc as well. Great app I'll probably continue using, I'm not confident Apple will allow the amount of customizability it allows.

Pass4Wallet seems dead. The developer website

https://girappe.com/ is also dead

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

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 exists, .pkpass. You mostly don’t know about them because iOS tries to abstract away the file system, and because each one has to be code signed by a registered Apple Developer account.

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

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Post by croes »

creaturemachine wrote: post #48
dschep wrote: post #39

This is just parity with google wallet, right? AFAICT my library card in google wallet is just a generic card/pass type.

Google wallet did this from day one.

That’s why Google can’t announce a new feature.
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