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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 PrairieFire »

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…

Excellent take. Had Apple made a dummy proof "Pass" portal for clubs, venues, etc to use to visually design and manage passes (and maybe even distribute?) when they launched this, I think it would have exploded, and the ecosystem lock in would have just been all that much deeper. But Apple doesn't really think or operate like that.

Be really interesting to see how their approach evolves over the next couple years with sea changes happening all around them in this moment.

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Post by johanyc »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #5
toenail wrote: post #2

Makes you wonder why this wasn't always possible.. I go to lots of events that have qr codes on their tickets, this will be useful

Does just taking a pic of the QR code not work just as well?

Apple wallet proactively shows your event pass when it's time. Much better than trying to find the photo from your camera roll

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Post by johanyc »

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.

> 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.

From the blog

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

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Post by somehnguy »

croes wrote: post #228
somehnguy wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Bummer. Welp, still works for now. I'm sure there are very similar apps as well.

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Post by dfunckt »

troupo wrote: post #133
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.

There's also no way to go to the wallet from the actual shortcut screen you most commonly use (the double-click power one)

Wait, what? Double-clicking will prompt for Face ID to open your default card for oayment, and from there you swipe down to see the stack — which I suppose is the screen you’re looking for.

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Post by jjice »

isodev wrote: post #178

Oh great, Apple is sherlocking yet another category of apps (and not to mention Apple always had a convoluted and gatekeepy approach to letting passes show up in the Wallet app) I guess there is no appetite for “antitrust” in the US right now.

There are many anittrust arguments that can be taken up against Apple, but I don't see how this is one of them. They're adding a feature to add a QR/bar code to the wallet app. It's a very minor feature.

As for sherlocking, this is such a minor use case that I'm not sure why anyone (minus maybe the initial app developers) would be upset. As a user, I need one less app to do something (that I should've been able to do for years). It's not like they're stripping an ability away from developers to hide it behind their own gates.

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Post by hbn »

noio wrote: post #177

15 years ago, a friend of mine built an app to do this — "Pass Creator" — then Apple yanked the functionality. He paid me to create the icon for it, which was my first paid graphic design job: https://www.noio.nl/2012/10/pass-creator-app-icon/ Thanks Paul.. good times!

You should know, however you're laying out the header on your website, in Safari it renders your face comically stretched and giant. Both on desktop and iPhone.

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Post by okrad »

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.

Switching your card when using Apply Pay as part of checkout on website was better when tapping the card icon allowed you to switch the card you are paying with but since iOS 26 that is for editing your billing address… if you want to change the card you have to select option below that with no icon titled “Other Cards & Pay Later Options”

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Post by pseudalopex »

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.

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