In summary:
- Macworld reports that iOS 27 will introduce a new ‘Create a Pass’ feature for Apple Wallet, allowing users to digitize physical tickets and membership cards.
- Users can scan QR codes or manually enter details to create custom passes with personalized images, colors, and text options.
- The feature uses color-coding for organization: blue for membership cards, purple for events, and orange for other pass types.
A new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg sheds a little more light on a previously-rumored feature coming to iOS 27 later this year.
The feature, called “Create a Pass,” will let users turn their physical tickets, passes, and membership cards into digital cards in Apple Wallet. According to the report, the process will involve pressing the same “+” button to add a card, much like you do today. But instead of just debit/credit or transit cards, you’ll have a new Create a Pass option.
Today, passes are added to Wallet primarily through third-party apps via Apple’s wallet frameworks. This new feature will let you scan a QR code on a physical pass or enter the details manually. You’ll be able to customize image, colors, style, and text for the Wallet passes, but they’ll each have an overall color to denote their type: membership cards in blue, event passes in purple, and orange for all other kinds of passes and tickets (perhaps a coupon or discount code).
iOS 27 is expected to be light on major new features and design changes, instead focusing on cleaning up code for better efficiency and reliability. The big exception is the new Siri and it’s associated AI features throughout Apple apps. The new OS will be unveiled at WWDC on June 8.
Author: Jason Cross, Senior Editor, Macworld
Jason has written about technology for more than 25 years - first in the gaming press, then focusing on enthusiast PCs and general technology. He enjoys learning how complicated technology works and explaining it in a way anyone can understand.