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

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

Been using Wallet Creator for that matter. Free and no ads.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1486573384

I need this without knowing before that I needed this. Makes me question why this wasn’t implemented years ago. Anyway, great.

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 always felt like Wallet is mostly a solution in search of a problem, but maybe more adoption will help?

I don’t really believe that places that require membership cards are going to let users start creating their own, though.

I hope that we will soon have ways to change the tone of AI writing, I hate that all news articles now have that same AI voice.

Could someone explain what a "pass" is in this context?

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.

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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…

Does Wallet allow apps to interact with the meta-data of cards, and/or update them in any way? This could be interesting for insurance cards, in particular. Upload & verify status periodically with a prompt to update, for example.

Finally, there's a website out there to do it but holy shit was it a pain

IMO one of the cool things about Wallet is the notification that appears on the homescreen when you're in proximity of the venue or time of the event and automatically displays the pass when tapped. I wonder if "create your own" will be able to do that (I'm not sure how it would)?

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

Pretty useful. I wish more places would allow this. My zoo membership makes you install their app just to enter.

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.

It's kind of nice that I can put my Safeway and Soopercard in there now, but that still means having to scan the barcode, and frankly it's less cumbersome to just hand my physical card to the cashier. The only store that seems to have figured out how to automatically add their card to NFC payments is Maverik gas stations.

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.

What is a "pass" in that context?

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

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?

Now we just need the ability to add custom NFC/RFID passes in the Wallet app for workplace doors/lifts/etc.

What is a "pass"?

they do the most obvious, sorely missing feature after over a decade of stubbornness and it goes straight to the top of HN