Apple Wallet Guide
Apple Wallet is a preloaded app including iOS (starting from iOS 9, it was originally known as Passbook). Users can store credit cards, debit cards, boarding passes, store cards, tickets, retail coupons, general passes, etc. Wallet is supported by multiple coffee shops, airlines, party services, movie theaters, conferences, loyalty cards, etc.
The Wallet is divided on 2 sections:
- Apple Pay: Mobile payment service based on Contactless EMV specification.
- Stores tokenized version of credit cards.
- Users can pay in stores that accept contactless payments.
- Synched up with iCloud to display last credit card transaction, etc.
- Passes:
- Part of the initial Passbook ecosystem (launched on iOS 6)
- Stores Virtual versions of boarding passes, store cards, etc.
- Interact directly with iOS apps
- Synched up with iCloud and can displayed dynamic data such as balance on the rewards card expiration date, flight status , etc.
- Pass changes can be pushed via the Apple Push Notification Service