![]() ![]() ![]() Last week, we were the first to report that Google was preparing a new “Wallet” icon, which we believed would be well poised to be a gateway to everything from payment cards to “digital tickets, airline passes and vaccine passports.” In new screenshots shared on Twitter by Mishaal Rahman, we have our first look at what Google has planned for “Wallet” on Android. Pixel phones have skirted around this minor issue with the “Cards & passes” feature, which offers quick access to your payment cards from the lock screen and quick settings, but this is not available on most other Android devices. Instead, to have contactless payments on more than one device, your second device needs to use the older app. The downside of that GPay app is that it can only be installed on a single device at a time, unlike the previous Google Pay app. ![]() This app has less of an emphasis on contactless payments, with the work of managing your cards and passes being handled by Google Play Services rather than GPay. Meanwhile, in select countries like the US, Singapore, and India, there’s an entirely different app, “ GPay,” which hosts a number of social features, deals, and peer-to-peer payments, as well as once being home to Google’s cancelled ambitions for banking. For most of the world, “ Google Pay” is and has been run through a standalone app that solely manages your contactless payments alongside other supported tickets and passes. On Android, things have been a bit messy in regards to contactless payments, mostly due to what feels like an ever-changing strategy on Google’s part. Google may be bringing back their classic “Wallet” name to be Android’s home for contactless payment cards and important passes. ![]()
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