Did you know that you can download your COVID certificate and place it in the Wallet application of your iPhone? It is a very practical way to always have your certificate at hand when you need it, although it is not mandatory, it can be requested for certain procedures or trips. If you save it to your iPhone’s wallet, you won’t have to worry about looking for it when prompted.
By registering the COVID certificate in Wallet, you will be able to invoke it whenever you want from your iPhone or Apple Watch. A few presses on the corresponding button will display it on the screen as if it were a credit card or a normal pass.
How to create your own Wallet card for the COVID certificate
Apple announced that with iOS 15 we can add keys and identity documents to Wallet. At the moment, there is no official way to integrate our vaccination certificate into the iPhone. But we can take advantage of some of the applications that exist for create Wallet passes on iPhone from barcodes or QR codes. And when we get vaccinated, we will receive a QR code in a document, just in the format we need.
All you have to do is look in the App Store for an app that allows you to create Wallet passes from QR codes and thus be able to add the COVID certificate to our iPhone
To begin with, we need take a photo or capture of the COVID certificate and save it to the iPhone reel. When opening the app, we will follow these steps:
- We give the “+” button in the lower right corner to choose the “import” options of the QR.
- We choose “Get the barcode in photos”, where we can choose the photo or capture with the QR.
- We select the photo, confirm and a screen will appear to customize certain aspects.
In the free version, we can only edit a few sections here. We will put the name Certified COVID or whatever we want to be able to identify it quickly. And we will click on Done.
Then we will be shown the Wallet card with the COVID certificate ready to be added to the iPhone. By clicking on Add, it will be saved on the iPhone and we can invoke it as if it were a ticket or an Apple Pay card.
Now we already have the COVID passport on our iPhone or Apple Watch. Two devices that we always carry with us and which will allow us to quickly show our COVID Certificate.
