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

Posted by alentodorov 4 days ago

iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet(walletwallet.alen.ro)

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resters 4 days ago|

I thought this meant Apple was creating the ability for anyone to issue/sell passes/tickets through its wallet infrastructure. That would be much more significant.

testfoobar 4 days ago||

Definitely need this - I have a grocery store app with an embedded QR code linked to my account for discounts at point of sale. Opening the app is slow - so I've screen shotted the QR code. I have to pull my pinned photos at checkout to scan the code. This is also slow - but less slow than opening the app.

Looking forward to adding it to Apple wallet.

As an aside, does the Jenny number still work at most stores?

odysseus 4 days ago||

Apple needs to go a step beyond this and optionally automatically pick the best card to use based on your location to get the max cash back.

ghaff 4 days ago||

I'll have to see the workflow but I find it incredibly annoying to have tickets that you may or may not be able to put in the Wallet and maybe we'll send them to you a week before the event when you're traveling. Understand about airline checkins but keeping mental track of things like theater tickets or timed museum entries is really annoyinmg.

DecoPerson 4 days ago||

Been using Pass2U for this for years.

Surely this was considered earlier within Apple. I wonder what changed that they decided to do this now.

alt227 4 days ago||

Probably someone famous and powerful saw somebody do it on an Android phone and complained to someone high up in Apple.

itopaloglu83 4 days ago||

Similarly I was using Pass4Wallet.

https://apps.apple.com/mw/app/pass4wallet-store-cards/id1423...

seldomcomment 4 days ago||

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

jdhwosnhw 4 days ago||

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

seldomcomment 4 days ago||

can't believe I missed that...

avs733 4 days ago||

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

maratc 4 days ago||

Adding your own passes was possible before (I used websites to create passes on the phone; apps existed too) however that's been a hurdle. I wonder what the security implications of this would be. Could people snatch a QR code on my paper ticket to go to a Taylor Swift's concert instead of me?

mystifyingpoi 4 days ago||

> Could people snatch a QR code on my paper ticket

That's a feature, not a bug. It means you can sell the ticket if you can't make it. Thankfully (/s) we have Ticketmaster with rolling codes now, so, no reselling.

maratc 4 days ago||

> It means you can sell the ticket

This also means I can do it twice if I choose so.

jjice 4 days ago|||

I can't speak for all things, but I found that venues will often use like a rotating QR code or rely on NFC. I'm sure if this is something like a ticket for a concert, you'll just rely on the existing pass support from whatever service you're using because it'll require something more complex.

The way I'm interpreting this is that it's a way to abstract stagnant QR or barcode passes for smaller businesses and libraries. We'll see at the WWDC though.

NetMageSCW 4 days ago||

How do they get your paper ticket?

maratc 4 days ago||

By using their smart glasses or 20x zoom camera to take a picture of it when I take it out of the pocket at a grocery line?

Thieves could snatch my paper ticket from my hands before, but at least in that situation I would be aware of it.

nottorp 4 days ago||

I paid 0.99 for some 3rd party app to do that for me years ago. It still seems to work.

And I'll still need it because I doubt I'll be switching to 26 or 27 any time soon.

Edit: Pass2UWallet is the name of the app I'm using if anyone cares. I'm not getting a commission for that yadda yadda doo.

darkwater 4 days ago|

TFA is from a developer that created an app to create passes in iOS (and Android)

nottorp 4 days ago||

Not the only app though :)

dec0dedab0de 4 days ago||

This rules, I hope they don't botch it. All I need is the ability to save a custom image, maybe with an optional expiration date. Then I could add all my insurance cards and concert tickets that are not already compatible.

isodev 4 days ago|

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.

jjice 4 days ago|

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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