Since the arrival of Google Wallet, the application has become a very practical way to have access to our debit cards and more information on our mobile phones, like loyalty cards, digitally. However, it is usually necessary to include the cards manually in Wallet to have them later in the application.
Google Takes a Major Step to Make Wallet Smarter: The App Has Launched automatically import more information emails, especially boarding passes and even movie tickets. This new feature, which makes our daily lives easier, is starting to reach the first users.
Boarding passes arrive in Wallet without us having to do anything
The idea of wallet automation proposes that we don’t have to do anything manually and everything comes automatically to the application, in scan our Gmail email to access new tickets and cards, provided certain conditions are met.
In a new developer document, Google explains that Wallet can now import confirmation email data into the Gmail app. Here’s how the company explains it:
“Movie tickets and boarding passes that arrive in Gmail will now appear in Google Wallet when the user receives a purchase confirmation in their Gmail account. This integration is already available for select theater chains and airlines around the world, and we’re working to expand this feature to more people.
In order to import movie tickets and boarding passes, the email must contain the full QR codein this way the Wallet application will be able to detect it and display it directly in the digital wallet.
This means that although the function has already started to gradually reach Wallet users, the results depend on how the airline or cinema chain confirms the purchase of a ticket or ticket by mail. But this automation undoubtedly allows streamline the way we use Wallet and save us the time of manually adding these tickets to the app.
Wallet arrived in 2022 under the name of evolution of Google Payand since then they have integrated more and more functions and possibilities for the application, from supporting the display of boarding passes on smart watches, to carrying your driving license in the app (at least in the US) and the ability to add any pass to the wallet simply with a photo.
By | 9to5Google
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