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iOS 27 Wallet App Gets 'Create a Pass' Feature

The Wallet app in iOS 27 has a new "Create a Pass" option that's designed to let you add passes for tickets, memberships, and more using Visual Intelligence. If you have a ticket for an event and there's not a digital version available in the Wallet app already, you can create one using the physical pass.

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By default, the Wallet app uses ‌Visual Intelligence‌ to scan a pass and add it, but there's also a "Create Pass Manually" option. Pass templates include Standard, Membership, and Event.

Each type includes relevant information like name, location, or admission type, along with a scannable code drawn from an included barcode or QR code that you take a photo of. There are 12 background colors to choose from, or seven custom backgrounds for categories like theater, music, sports, and movies.

Fields can be added or removed as needed when creating a custom pass, with options like label, date, membership, contact, coupon code, VIN, insurance, and more, so most physical cards should be able to be stored digitally.

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ipedro Avatar
22 hours ago at 02:30 pm

The question is... will the event, store, etc. accept your newly created pass...? 🤔

Honestly, I doubt it.
Do you really think some cashier who is looking forward to their next break gives a crap what you scan?

I've used custom passes for years with other apps and sometimes just the photo of the card and not once did I get questioned. It's just a barcode.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarlJ Avatar
21 hours ago at 02:50 pm
What I really want to see in Apple Wallet...

First, support for additional barcode formats - for instance, a lot of libraries use Codabar format.

Second, support (presumably including an API) for codes that change with time - Target and Costco come to mind - they have codes that change every minute or so, specifically to keep people from screenshotting them and potentially giving the image to other people. But opening a specific app and navigating is much less convenient.

So give the companies an API where Apple can say, "hey app XYZ, the user is trying to display your XYZ card in Apple Wallet, please give the correct current payload and format to use for QR/barcode", and the app can answer as needed so Apple Wallet can display the right code for this minute, and then you can use Apple Wallet at whatever store, rather than digging out the right app, and potentially logging in, and navigating to the right page, and hitting the "show membership card" button.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarlJ Avatar
21 hours ago at 02:40 pm

The question is... will the event, store, etc. accept your newly created pass...? 🤔
I've got a handful of loyalty cards generated by a 3rd party app (that is, it's my membership number but an app prepared the artwork and turned the membership number into the proper barcode / QR code, and made a "card" Apple Wallet would accept), and they work just fine. You occasionally get a slightly astonished look when you hold up a phone to scan instead of a plastic card, but they scan it and it works.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
22 hours ago at 01:53 pm
Finally!! I use other apps to create discount cards and other information I need to keep in my digital wallet. Even if they can’t be scanned (and they should have that functionality- a bar code is a bar code!), this will help!
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Unity451 Avatar
22 hours ago at 01:51 pm
The question is... will the event, store, etc. accept your newly created pass...? 🤔
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
15 hours ago at 09:05 pm
Will be extremely useful. Eager to use this. Happy to see this feature with iOS 27
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)