Apple has transformed a practical accessory into a smart wallet!
Apple has a particular interest in helping us find lost items, such as services like the Find My app or devices like the AirTag. But now the company has found a way to stop us from getting to that point. According to documentation recently viewed on Patently Apple, Apple has patented a wallet that alerts you if you’ve forgotten your physical card.
According to the document, the MagSafe wallet that we already know will be updated with a function to warn the user that they forgot to save the credit card or an ID after making a payment, for example . This, yes, This will only work if initially a maximum of two cards have been registered. Although considering the thickness of the wallet it shouldn’t be much more.
Apple will turn the MagSafe wallet into a smart wallet
The wallet upgrade would start with the addition of a blood pressure monitor that would allow the wallet to determine how many cards it holds. While a spring clip, with a mousetrap-like design, will help keep cards secure in the wallet.
The internal view shows a spring clip, which can be used to exert force against physical cards inserted into the smart wallet. Under this approach, the spring clip can help prevent physical cards from simply falling out of the smart wallet in common scenarios, such as when only one card is stored in the smart wallet when the smart wallet is placed face down the bottom.
The patent also states that Apple uses five minutes as a suggested time before a missing card alert is triggered. This or any other period will require periodic updating of the wallet and number of cards.
Apple Smart Wallet patent image
The system also handles other conditions. If the location where the card was removed has been left, iPhone will provide instructions to return to that location. If a card is still not replaced in the wallet some time after iPhone is notified, there will be a proactive way to contact the card issuer to freeze or cancel it.
So far, the MagSafe wallet is a practical accessory at 69 dollars that attaches magnetically to the iPhone and although it already offers several advantages in terms of practicality, perhaps for many it did not justify its price. Congratulations, Apple has thought about security-focused usage. But being a patent, not all of them end up materializing.
