Tag Archives: Wallet

Apple’s Wallet app has a lot of new features coming in iOS 26, including one that’s easy to miss: a toggle that lets you disable an annoying and controversial type of push notifications. Apple Wallet is a critical app for a lot of iPhone users. It’s home to Apple Pay cards, and many of us use it for boarding passes, …

States across the US are slowly rolling out support for adding your driver’s license or ID to the Google Wallet app on Android.  Update 8/23 How to add your state ID on Android  Open the Google Wallet app on Android 9+ Tap the “Add to Wallet” button in the bottom-right corner Choose “ID” and then “Driver’s license or state ID”  …

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 adds a shortcut to open Google Wallet with a power button double-press, but Google has limited this feature to the Pixel 8 and newer devices. Despite no apparent technical limitations, Google intentionally disabled the gesture on older phones like the Pixel 7 Pro, offering no clear reason for the decision. The feature …

– credit, Chad Volk supplied to CBS A Ford Motor Company employee was reunited with a wallet he lost 10 years ago after a mechanic found it while servicing a car he built. This charming story comes via Minnesota, where mechanic Chad Volk was replacing the cooling fan on a 2015 Ford Edge, when something that needed to snap in …

PETERSBURG, Mich. — A retired Michigan autoworker looked at a Facebook message after midnight from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet years ago? “If so,” a Minnesota man wrote, “it was in the engine bay of a car.” Richard Guilford couldn’t believe what he was reading on his phone — a decade-old mystery was remarkably solved. Guilford’s tri-fold leather …

A recent Amazon rollout brought support for adding Amazon return codes to Apple’s Wallet app—and another Amazon-Wallet improvement is coming soon in iOS 26. Amazon return codes can now be saved in Apple Wallet One of Amazon’s greatest strengths has long been the convenience of making and receiving purchases. Running low on something? With the Amazon app on iPhone, you …

Pixel phones are getting a new card carousel overlay when you launch Google Wallet with a double-tap of the power button. Android 16 introduced the ability to customize the “Double press power button” gesture. Instead of launching the camera, you can set it to open Google Wallet. At the moment, this just opens the full Wallet app. At least one …

In the past few weeks or so, Google Wallet app on Android now requires that you grant the location permission to get “detailed receipts” with addresses and maps. A detailed receipt includes merchant (store) name and address displayed on a map, with a Call shortcut also available. Previously, this was included by default, but Google Wallet made a change in …

Of all the finance and wallet apps available on Android, Google Wallet remains one of my favorites. While most wallet apps, like Samsung Wallet, let you store cards and even digital keys, Google Wallet offers features you don’t often see in other wallet apps. You can store your passport, various IDs, including your driver’s license, loyalty cards, and hotel keys, …

Torsten Slok, the chief economist at Apollo, issued a warning for U.S. consumers of what to expect at the end of the year. In an interview with Bloomberg, Slok on Thursday said that the President Donald Trump’s tariffs will push prices higher until inflation is expected to peak in November or December. Slok said that he “absolutely” believes that inflation …