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- Makes you wonder why this wasn't always possible.. I go to lots of events that have qr codes on their tickets, this will be usefulby toenail
- Coming from Android this was a big pain pointby baby
- Does just taking a pic of the QR code not work just as well?
- What is the difference between this and taking a picture/screenshot of the QR code?by vachina
- For whatever reason apple required passes to be digitally signed with an apple developer certificate. On the other hand a screenshot/pdf is "good enough" that they didn't bother fixing it.by gruez
- I need this without knowing before that I needed this. Makes me question why this wasn’t implemented years ago. Anyway, great.
- The Wallet Pass[0] and PassKit[1] documentations are some of the sparsest and cryptic documentations around filled with absolutely archaic flows that _need_ to be supported for proper integration. If this solves the need of ever having to deal with those features ever again.
[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/walletpasses [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/passkit
by petetnt - IMO one of the cool things about Wallet is the notification that appears on the homescreen when you're in proximity of the venue or time of the event and automatically displays the pass when tapped. I wonder if "create your own" will be able to do that (I'm not sure how it would)?by mosburger
- Just enter the location and time in question as part of creating the pass?by ceejayoz
- 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.
by MengerSponge - I use Pass2U Wallet and set a location, if I end up at near Children's Museum or Community Center, my ID is ready.by basch
- That one's real fun if you happen to be near the train station a lot, and have an anytime return ticket.by haritha-j
- This is just parity with google wallet, right? AFAICT my library card in google wallet is just a generic card/pass type.by dschep
- It’s crazy how many people refuse to use Android in the USby baby
- > A few places where we still help, even after iOS 27 ships:
> Google Wallet. Create a Pass is iPhone-only. Roughly half of the wallet-using world is on Android, and our generator builds Google Wallet passes from the same form.
From the blog
by johanyc - Google wallet did this from day one.
- Good to see Apple catching up with Google finally.
Google wallet has had the abillity to scan tickets and create custom passes for years.
This article frames it like Apple are coming to save the day from lazy developers, but in reality its Apple who have been sleeping on this while other competing services have offered it for some time now.
by alt227 - Finally!
An option to override automatic (un)archival of passes is also desperately needed. Some passes just don’t expire based on time, and too many pass creators are too incompetent to put the correct time in even if they do.
Airlines in particular are prone to things like using local time in a field expecting UTC, which has made boarding passes auto-archive hours before leaving for the airport for me…
by lxgr - Wallet → … → Expired → Edit → Select All → Eyeball (!) → Unhide.
Doesn't help with the "automatic" part, but I try to remember to do this every few months.
by reaperducer - > An option to override automatic (un)archival of passes is also desperately needed.
PREACH. If you buy an open return (any time within 30 days of outward), Avanti set the expiry on both wallet passes to be the outward day. Which means your "valid for 30 days" ticket disappears almost immediately. Absolute shambles.
by zimpenfish - 15 years ago, a friend of mine built an app to do this — "Pass Creator" — then Apple yanked the functionality.
He paid me to create the icon for it, which was my first paid graphic design job: https://www.noio.nl/2012/10/pass-creator-app-icon/
Thanks Paul.. good times!
by noio - I miss this design ascetic.
- If not for anything, the icon looks good.
Although it is not out yet, Garbage Country's art direction looks good :) wishlisted.
by AlOwain - Went through your site, and amazed to see you worked on Kingdom ? Loved that game a ton.by Dependance
- You should know, however you're laying out the header on your website, in Safari it renders your face comically stretched and giant. Both on desktop and iPhone.by hbn
- > A few places where we still help, even after iOS 27 ships:
> Google Wallet. Create a Pass is iPhone-only. Roughly half of the wallet-using world is on Android, and our generator builds Google Wallet passes from the same form.
What does this actually mean? Google Wallet has had a button to add your own passes for many years. How is the feature described here different?
by Liquid_Fire - Yep. Lots of things are supported:
https://support.google.com/wallet/answer/12060038
Anything with a bar code or QR code will work. It's not complicated.
by tantalor - What a relief. My awful workaround was photos of all my membership barcodes labeled with a sharpie so that I can search "Gym" or "Library" or whatever to pull them up from OCR indexing.by randusername
- FYI you can add description text to a photo in the (default) Photos app. Just swipe up and there should be a text box. You can (usually) find a photos based on what you've writtenby MawKKe
- Just get https://supercardsapp.com/ and be done with it. It's most likely way better than the new Apple Walletby jbverschoor