Wallet app can be removed forever in iOS 16.1

A few days ago, Apple surprised with the launch of the iOS 16 developer beta 7 and the first iPadOS 16.1 developer beta. This latest version was the one that baffled. We see that Apple will postpone the launch of iPadOS 16 and when it is officially launched, it will already be in version 16.1. The source code of this first version suggests some new features of the future iOS 16.1, not yet available in beta format, such as Converting the Wallet app to a permanently removable app. We’ll tell you after the jump.

iOS 16.1 will make the Wallet app removable

Apple has decided to change the release schedule for its new operating systems. The launch forecast for iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 was for late September or early October with the release of the iPhone 14. However, launch of first iPadOS 16.1 developer beta suggests launch delay since iPadOS 16.

Thanks to the source code of this beta of iPadOS 16.1, analyzed by 9to5mac, it was possible to verify a novelty that we could see in iOS 16.1 in a few months. And is the converting Wallet app to deletable app. Currently, in iOS 15, the app can be uninstalled to remove it from our home screen, but all dynamics and functionality continue to run in the background. It is not like other apps which are deleted and then can be reinstalled through the App Store.

The arrival of this conversion into a removable application would make the user had to reinstall the app from the app store when using any of the features like Apple Pay. Experts point out that this measure would have come in response to the class action which Apple has been the subject of in recent months in which it is accused of having violated antitrust law for having proposed a unique contactless payment solution on the iPhone.

As iOS 16.1 is not yet available in beta format, we still don’t know if this news will officially arrive and we don’t know the implications of this change. All this will be explained in due course with the release of the version in a few months.