TechPhonesAndroid PhonesGoogle wallet just got a genuinely useful upgradeAuto-detection means your Google Wallet will be able to spot new bookings and add them to your tickets and boarding passesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesAndroid PhonesGoogle wallet just got a genuinely useful upgradeAuto-detection means your Google Wallet will be able to spot new bookings and add them to your tickets and boarding passesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Auto-detection means your Google Wallet will be able to spot new bookings and add them to your tickets and boarding passes
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Google)
(Image credit: Google)
Googlehas just upgraded Google Wallet with a new feature that’ll genuinely make your life easier – provided you’re a Gmail user. The new feature, which is rolling out now, means that whenever a confirmation email containing a movie ticket or boarding pass is sent to your Gmail inbox, Google Wallet will pick it up and add it automatically.
As it’s a new feature it might not work for every theatre chain or airline just yet, and while it’s a global feature it’s a safe bet that Google will focus first on the big US names. As Google says in therelease notes, “This integration is live for some global movie chains and airlines and we are working to expand this.”
Why auto-detection makes life easier
As aniPhoneowner I’m jealous ofAndroidusers here:AppleWallet in the UK still feels very much like a work in progress, so while my Calendar app can detect gig bookings and events in my email – something Gmail also does for the Google Calendar app – I still have to add the passes manually. That’s assuming they’re there at all, and that I’m looking at the email on my iPhone rather than on my Mac.
That’s a first world problem I know, but having consistent, reliable, widespread auto-detection of important things in messages and mail is a feature that genuinely makes life easier – and if you’re scatterbrained like I am, that helps keep you organised. So it’s very much the sort of thing I really hope the big tech firms' investments in AI and machine learning will improve, because I think that it’s the everyday stuff that really makes a difference to how useful your devices can be: I’ve no interest in talking to a chatbot to pass the time but I’m very interested in anything that’ll handle a bit more of my life admin, and that I can rely on my phone or smartwatch to sort out for me.
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