Since the arrival of Google Wallet, the app has You can access our bank cards and more information on our mobile phones.digitally, like loyalty cards. However, it is often necessary to manually add cards to Wallet to have them in the app later.
Google is taking a big step to make Wallet smarter: the app has launched import more information automatically from emails, especially flight 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 suggests that we do not need to do anything manually and everything reaches the application automatically. Scan our Gmail email gain access to new tickets and passes as long as certain requirements are met.
In a new developer document, Google explains that Wallet can now push confirmation email data into the Gmail app. The company explains it this way:
“Movie tickets and boarding passes received 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 some movie chains and airlines around the world, and we’re working to bring this feature to more.”
Email to import movie tickets and boarding passes Must contain the entire QR codeThis way the Wallet app will be able to detect it and display it directly in the digital wallet.
This means that although the function has already begun to gradually reach Wallet users, the results depend on how the airline or cinema chain confirms the purchase of a ticket or pass by mail. But this automation is undoubtedly Simplify how we use Wallet and save us the time of manually adding these tickets to the app.
Wallet arrives in 2022 The evolution of Google Payand since then they have integrated more and more functions and possibilities for the app, from support for showing boarding passes on smartwatches to carrying your driver’s license in the app (at least in the United States) and the ability to add any card. To Wallet with just one photo.
via | 9to5Google
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