{"slug": "apple-wallet", "name": "Apple Wallet", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 9, "commenters": 28, "warners": 6, "score": 5.719, "rising": -0.29, "first": "2025-11-10", "latest": "2026-10-14", "why": "it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 9, "neutral": 11, "compare": 3, "warn": 6}, "spark": [2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "wallet.apple", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.apple.com/wallet/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Apple Wallet"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 799001232, "item_id": 49937577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937577", "by": "BryantD", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Worked perfectly for checking out a book today.", "excerpt": "Huh. Doesn't remind me of those at all. For example, I used the other new Apple Wallet functionality yesterday to put my local library card into Apple Wallet and now I've got one less thing to carry around. Worked perfectly for checking out a book today.", "context": "", "use_case": "library card", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 795810608, "item_id": 49738163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738163", "by": "bob1029", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is potentially a superior arrangement", "excerpt": "I think mDL is going to be a pretty big deal in some industries (e.g. banking). Apple announced an ecosystem around this at WWDC25. Very soon we are going to be in a world where you walk into a bank to open/maintain an account and the following occurs: 1. The bank emails/SMSes the customer a link 2. The customer takes out their iPhone, opens whatever email/messaging software & taps the link 3. The link takes the cust", "context": "", "use_case": "Digital ID wallet", "switched_from": "", "story": "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"}, {"id": 785189024, "item_id": 49074314, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074314", "by": "boc", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Apple Wallet for nearly every transaction, but I never use Apple Pay/Apple Card as the payment method.", "excerpt": "> Here (NL) contactless payments works with every debit card, physical or stored Apple Google/Pay, in every store That's how it works in the US as well. You might be conflating Apple Pay with Apple Wallet, which stores your credit cards for tap-to-pay. Most people in the US use Apple Wallet/Google Wallet to digitally store their credit/debit cards, and use those cards to pay at the store by tapping the POS terminal. ", "context": "US user", "use_case": "tap-to-pay", "switched_from": "", "story": "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"}, {"id": 768354208, "item_id": 48022138, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022138", "by": "SJMG", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.", "excerpt": "Agreed. I use it basically every day. It's almost disquieting how quickly Apple inserted itself into payments, but it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.", "context": "", "use_case": "Payments and passes", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768353984, "item_id": 48022124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022124", "by": "djyde", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Wallet purely to satisfy my collecting habit", "excerpt": "I use Wallet purely to satisfy my collecting habit. I like to add movie tickets to it after purchasing them in the movie app, so I can look back at all the movies I've watched from many years ago until now.", "context": "", "use_case": "Storing movie tickets", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801443568, "item_id": 50090223, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090223", "by": "bigyabai", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Apple's own cross-promotions are so ugly and ham-fisted", "excerpt": "Apple's own cross-promotions are so ugly and ham-fisted that I'm not sure third parties could do worse: https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-to-ditch-unsolicited-f1-ads-notifications-from-apple-wallet", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"}, {"id": 799058865, "item_id": 49941179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941179", "by": "appjeniksaan", "date": "2026-10-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "for me it's not the right solution", "excerpt": "A little over a year ago I created a little app to store QR or barcodes and use them either from the app or through a widget, it's called PeekCard [1]. I was wondering if iOS 27 Wallet opening up custom passes was going to mean I could abandon my little app, but for me it's not the right solution. It creates large portrait size passes which are designed to contain meta info about the cards purpose. What I want is a n", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 799007536, "item_id": 49937971, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937971", "by": "ceejayoz", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They won't even let you refund a specific customer!", "excerpt": "I tend to doubt that. Apple's had a hard line on sharing that with devs for decades. They won't even let you refund a specific customer! https://developer.apple.com/wallet/whats-new/ It looks a lot simpler than that. > Passes now include interactive tiles called Featured Actions that give customers easy access to useful information through universal links to additional web pages.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 768387360, "item_id": 48024210, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024210", "by": "jonathanstrange", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Setting up a custom CI chain today as a brand-new member of the Apple Developer program, I found out that they have at least 9 different certificates", "excerpt": "Unfortunately, they're not even good at it. Setting up a custom CI chain today as a brand-new member of the Apple Developer program, I found out that they have at least 9 different certificates to generate with no explanation which one you need on the page, and after I had generated one, downloaded it, and imported it into the keychain, the certificate was invalid. I additionally had to go to some cryptic looking pag", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}]}], "who": [{"by": "boc", "context": "US user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074314", "date": "2026-07-27"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["digital id wallet", "library card", "tap-to-pay", "payment cards", "payments and passes", "storing movie tickets"], "compared": [{"slug": "apple-pay", "name": "Apple Pay", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "google-wallet", "name": "Google Wallet", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021561", "title": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet", "mentions": 11}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937276", "title": "Apple Pass Designer", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345745", "title": "Show HN: WalletWallet \u2013 create Apple passes from anything", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087524", "title": "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735930", "title": "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548452", "title": "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 4, "recommend": 2, "compare": 3, "warn": 2}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 3, "neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 801443568, "item_id": 50090223, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090223", "by": "bigyabai", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Apple's own cross-promotions are so ugly and ham-fisted", "excerpt": "Apple's own cross-promotions are so ugly and ham-fisted that I'm not sure third parties could do worse: https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-to-ditch-unsolicited-f1-ads-notifications-from-apple-wallet", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"}, {"id": 799058865, "item_id": 49941179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941179", "by": "appjeniksaan", "date": "2026-10-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "for me it's not the right solution", "excerpt": "A little over a year ago I created a little app to store QR or barcodes and use them either from the app or through a widget, it's called PeekCard [1]. I was wondering if iOS 27 Wallet opening up custom passes was going to mean I could abandon my little app, but for me it's not the right solution. It creates large portrait size passes which are designed to contain meta info about the cards purpose. What I want is a n", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 799010736, "item_id": 49938171, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938171", "by": "pradn", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There are free, web-based wizards to create PKPass-format Apple Wallet passes.", "excerpt": "There are free, web-based wizards to create PKPass-format Apple Wallet passes. This one was posted on HN a few months ago. https://walletwallet.alen.ro/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 799007536, "item_id": 49937971, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937971", "by": "ceejayoz", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They won't even let you refund a specific customer!", "excerpt": "I tend to doubt that. Apple's had a hard line on sharing that with devs for decades. They won't even let you refund a specific customer! https://developer.apple.com/wallet/whats-new/ It looks a lot simpler than that. > Passes now include interactive tiles called Featured Actions that give customers easy access to useful information through universal links to additional web pages.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 799001232, "item_id": 49937577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937577", "by": "BryantD", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Worked perfectly for checking out a book today.", "excerpt": "Huh. Doesn't remind me of those at all. For example, I used the other new Apple Wallet functionality yesterday to put my local library card into Apple Wallet and now I've got one less thing to carry around. Worked perfectly for checking out a book today.", "context": "", "use_case": "library card", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Pass Designer"}, {"id": 795810608, "item_id": 49738163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738163", "by": "bob1029", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is potentially a superior arrangement", "excerpt": "I think mDL is going to be a pretty big deal in some industries (e.g. banking). Apple announced an ecosystem around this at WWDC25. Very soon we are going to be in a world where you walk into a bank to open/maintain an account and the following occurs: 1. The bank emails/SMSes the customer a link 2. The customer takes out their iPhone, opens whatever email/messaging software & taps the link 3. The link takes the cust", "context": "", "use_case": "Digital ID wallet", "switched_from": "", "story": "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"}, {"id": 792879184, "item_id": 49554949, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554949", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I can perform identity proofing and attestation with my digital driver's license and passport in my iPhone Wallet today", "excerpt": "The same states and countries they integrate with today for digital identity verification. If you have a passport, national ID card, or US state ID or driver's license, you have a government provided digital identity that can bound to and authenticated against. I'm probably missing a government credential in scope, but the backend database lookup is trivial. The US Login.gov idp is about to roll out identity attestat", "context": "", "use_case": "digital ID wallet", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"}, {"id": 785189024, "item_id": 49074314, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074314", "by": "boc", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Apple Wallet for nearly every transaction, but I never use Apple Pay/Apple Card as the payment method.", "excerpt": "> Here (NL) contactless payments works with every debit card, physical or stored Apple Google/Pay, in every store That's how it works in the US as well. You might be conflating Apple Pay with Apple Wallet, which stores your credit cards for tap-to-pay. Most people in the US use Apple Wallet/Google Wallet to digitally store their credit/debit cards, and use those cards to pay at the store by tapping the POS terminal. ", "context": "US user", "use_case": "tap-to-pay", "switched_from": "", "story": "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"}, {"id": 783230128, "item_id": 48951883, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951883", "by": "asxeem", "date": "2026-07-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Apple Wallet based unlock on approach can work with these chipsets without UWB", "excerpt": "Are you saying Apple Wallet based unlock on approach can work with these chipsets without UWB? Current status of relevant uwb dev kits that does this is hundreds of USD and unavailable to purchase/out of stock since months. This repo works with common chips and I'm working on porting it out to ESP too (fingers crossed) https://github.com/asxeem/openaliro", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reverse Engineering Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768596112, "item_id": 48037257, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037257", "by": "red369", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "If I use it while on the Home Screen, I end up in the wallet app where I can rearrange and change settings for the cards.", "excerpt": "I find it very strange - I don\u2019t really know what to make of it. I have the wallet shortcut in my control centre. If I use it while on the Home Screen, I end up in the wallet app where I can rearrange and change settings for the cards. If I swipe down the Notification Centre, on my still unlocked phone, and then also swipe down the control centre, and then use exactly the same shortcut, I now end up in the \u201cdouble-cl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768509409, "item_id": 48031838, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031838", "by": "appjeniksaan", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "compare", "quote": "But I actually hope Apple Wallet does it better.", "excerpt": "Some time ago I built a really simple app to do this as well, called PeekCard[1]. But I actually hope Apple Wallet does it better. What I'm wondering about is whether there will be decent barcode support and if it will support widgets. [1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/peekcard/id6749822787", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768396753, "item_id": 48024797, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024797", "by": "OJFord", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I don't know what it looks like in Apple Wallet, because I use Google Wallet", "excerpt": "Well, I don't know what it looks like in Apple Wallet, because I use Google Wallet, but for the same reason I'm struggling to imagine the problem because there the cards are pretty large \u2013 maybe \u2154 real card size on my Pixel 10 \u2013 and in a carousel at the top. So you can see clearly which one the active one is, and just swipe between them if it's not the one you want. Easier than my physical wallet tbh, where they're b", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768387360, "item_id": 48024210, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024210", "by": "jonathanstrange", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Setting up a custom CI chain today as a brand-new member of the Apple Developer program, I found out that they have at least 9 different certificates", "excerpt": "Unfortunately, they're not even good at it. Setting up a custom CI chain today as a brand-new member of the Apple Developer program, I found out that they have at least 9 different certificates to generate with no explanation which one you need on the page, and after I had generated one, downloaded it, and imported it into the keychain, the certificate was invalid. I additionally had to go to some cryptic looking pag", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768368784, "item_id": 48023049, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023049", "by": "mikepurvis", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I've ended up with a bunch of different credit cards and I get annoyed picking between them even without the additional complication of them being identical in appearance. For me it's my daily driver, my Costco branded card, my airline's amex card, my USD denominated card, and my work-issued card. There are also two ATM/debit cards in there which I'll occasionally choose at small merchants where I know the CC fees hi", "context": "", "use_case": "Payment cards", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768367825, "item_id": 48022989, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022989", "by": "jbverschoor", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "compare", "quote": "It's most likely way better than the new Apple Wallet", "excerpt": "Just get https://supercardsapp.com/ and be done with it. It's most likely way better than the new Apple Wallet", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768367665, "item_id": 48022979, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022979", "by": "MengerSponge", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I'm a fan of Wallet Creator (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallet-creator/id1486573384) Zero dollars, lets you geofence passes when you create them.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768357393, "item_id": 48022337, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022337", "by": "flymasterv", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Apple Pay via Wallet, which I use", "excerpt": "I guess I consider Apple Pay via Wallet, which I use, to be different from Gym Membership via Wallet, which just doesn't seem worth the effort? Maybe I'm unusual.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768354208, "item_id": 48022138, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022138", "by": "SJMG", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.", "excerpt": "Agreed. I use it basically every day. It's almost disquieting how quickly Apple inserted itself into payments, but it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.", "context": "", "use_case": "Payments and passes", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768353984, "item_id": 48022124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022124", "by": "djyde", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Wallet purely to satisfy my collecting habit", "excerpt": "I use Wallet purely to satisfy my collecting habit. I like to add movie tickets to it after purchasing them in the movie app, so I can look back at all the movies I've watched from many years ago until now.", "context": "", "use_case": "Storing movie tickets", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 768352656, "item_id": 48022041, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022041", "by": "threetonesun", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I still see people amazed when I pay for stuff with my Apple Watch.", "excerpt": "I still see people amazed when I pay for stuff with my Apple Watch. The only other place I know that reliably uses the Apple Watch with wallet outside of payment is Disney World, but the experience there was ok at best as I was managing my entire family and I'm pretty sure they would rather sell you multiple magic bands, but seeing as how phones will never get smaller I'd love more places to support tapping my watch ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"}, {"id": 759878049, "item_id": 47492378, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492378", "by": "kenjackson", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "now it really is my go to place for everything I have a card for", "excerpt": "Not revisionist at all. or Netflix, or Amazon, or Uber, or PayPal, etc\u2026 Netflix and Amazon both were competing against brick and morter that were everywhere. Blockbuster was in every town, usually in every major neighborhood. The thought was that on Friday night people wanted to get a movie they wanted, not just happen to have the movie that was shipped to them. And then with streaming it was \"the content on Netflix ", "context": "", "use_case": "Storing cards and passes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"}, {"id": 751764032, "item_id": 46985252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985252", "by": "klausa", "date": "2026-02-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "If you use the _digital_ MyNa card (e.g. the one in the Wallet.app", "excerpt": "That's... partially true. If you use the _digital_ MyNa card (e.g. the one in the Wallet.app; not the plastic one); the iOS SDK lets you only request the \"is user more than XX years old\" flag; without getting the actual identity: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/passkit/requesting-identity-data-from-a-wallet-pass Now, AFAICT nobody actually does this, but the technical ability is there.", "context": "", "use_case": "Digital ID / wallet", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"}, {"id": 751317488, "item_id": 46957343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957343", "by": "tom1337", "date": "2026-02-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Apple actually has this already.", "excerpt": "Apple actually has this already. For countries that support IDs in Apple Wallet there is a \"Verify with Wallet API\" [1] and for other countries the app developer can get the age range from the iCloud Account [2] - but that is not verified with any legal authority and only based on user input. 1) https://developer.apple.com/wallet/get-started-with-verify-with-wallet/ 2) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/declar", "context": "", "use_case": "Age verification via ID", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"}, {"id": 741564992, "item_id": 46347812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347812", "by": "mcgrath_sh", "date": "2025-12-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The only card I have in my Apple wallet is my grocery card", "excerpt": "I use my password manager for those. The only card I have in my Apple wallet is my grocery card. Otherwise, I go to my password manager and pull up the entry and the attached images. Some, I have just a barcode png. Others I have screenshots of the card from an app/website. This has been a really good balance for me. As an aside, I tried to use base64 for the images so everything was in text, but decoding with a shor", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: WalletWallet \u2013 create Apple passes from anything"}, {"id": 741547664, "item_id": 46346729, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346729", "by": "jacobajit", "date": "2025-12-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I wish there were a way to \u201carchive\u201d cards and passes in the Wallet app.", "excerpt": "I wish there were a way to \u201carchive\u201d cards and passes in the Wallet app. I\u2019d be much more likely to pass-ify my life if that were the case. The Wallet app is just too important and used frequently in time sensitive actions to clutter with cards/passes that I use once every few months. That is, when I\u2019m about to tap to pay, I don\u2019t want to infrequently used cards to clutter my payment experience. Likewise, when I\u2019m ab", "context": "", "use_case": "cards and passes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: WalletWallet \u2013 create Apple passes from anything"}, {"id": 741064705, "item_id": 46316544, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316544", "by": "rchaud", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "injected into Apple Wallet earlier this year", "excerpt": "Apple's ad business is estimated to be at $6.5 billion annually as of 2024[0]. Since then, they've decided to bring ads to Apple Maps. And of course there was the infamous ad for some movie on Apple TV injected into Apple Wallet earlier this year. Just because they're not Google's size doesn't mean they don't have people making product decisions that will eventually sacrifice privacy for profits. [0] https://digiday.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"}, {"id": 735134320, "item_id": 45945895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945895", "by": "lotsofpulp", "date": "2025-11-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Apple and Alphabet seem positioned to easily enable it.", "excerpt": "> The only real solution is to implement some sort of identity management system, but that has so many issues that make it a non-starter. Apple and Alphabet seem positioned to easily enable it. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-introduces-digital-id-a-new-way-to-create-and-present-an-id-in-apple-wallet/", "context": "", "use_case": "digital ID", "switched_from": "", "story": "The internet is no longer a safe haven"}, {"id": 734470304, "item_id": 45904394, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904394", "by": "throw0101d", "date": "2025-11-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "* https://learn.wallet.apple/id#states-list", "context": "", "use_case": "Digital ID storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Digital\u00a0ID, a\u00a0new way to create and present an ID in Apple\u00a0Wallet"}, {"id": 734057056, "item_id": 45878566, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45878566", "by": "jandrese", "date": "2025-11-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "immediately loaded into wallet and read via NFC at the gate", "excerpt": "It depends on the details. Last time I flew I used the airline's app to get the ticket which were then immediately loaded into wallet and read via NFC at the gate. But this is Ryanair so it's probably going to do some stupid QR thing that will be super touchy and be a struggle to work on at least half of the devices. Bonus points if the app refuses to start if it can't make a live internet connection back to some cur", "context": "", "use_case": "Boarding pass storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes"}]}