Apple: Making it hard to lose your wallet

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Have you ever lost your wallet? Concert tickets? Boarding passes? Don’t you wish you could call your lost keys like you call your lost phone? Well, now you can.

Apple is making it hard to lose your wallet with Apple Wallet (Wallet), an application that allows for the storage of credit and debit cards, boarding passes, event tickets, and coupons.

making it hard to lose your wallet

Competitors are scrambling to keep up. PayPal has released Mobile Wallet, but their business model is mainly focused on e-commerce. Samsung has Samsung Pay, even though their Samsung Wallet app folded in 2015. Google/Alphabet have Android Pay and Google Wallet. And yet, much of the competition focuses solely on transactions and purchases.

Users with iPhone 6, 6 Plus or later can add their credit or debit cards straight into the app to use with Apple Pay. When they’ve been loaded, all users have to do to make a purchase is open the app, choose a card/pass, and hold the phone near the merchant’s contactless reader while engaging the Touch ID feature.

While instant access to credit and debit cards is useful to everyone, this app is especially useful to travelers, who can add boarding passes and flight information straight into the app. Once the boarding pass is loaded into Wallet, users can access it at any time. Users can associate an airline’s own app with any boarding pass, which means that the pass will be updated if a flight is delayed or canceled. Conveniently enough, the pass can readily available from the lock screen based on your location or the time remaining until the flight. This information is stored offline, which means users have instant access to it from anywhere, even without Wi-Fi or a cellular connection. And the barcode on the bottom of the pass will get you on the plane, removing any need for paper documents that could easily be lost.

Talk about making it hard to lose your wallet.

Tyler Coffin
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