Kids in the US can now use Google Wallet on their Galaxy (or other Android) phones to make tap-to-pay payments. This feature will be available to those with a Family Link (Google’s feature to manage family members) account. It was earlier available only on the Fitbit Ace LTE, a Google smartwatch made for kids. Google […]
Read MoreGoogle Wallet has received a new feature on Samsung smartphones. It brought a Quick Settings Tile, which was available on several Android phones but curiously missing from Samsung Galaxy phones. Google Wallet gets Quick Settings Tile on Samsung phones A few months ago, Google announced a Quick Settings Tile for Google Wallet on Android smartphones. […]
Read MoreGoogle has made five new announcements about Google Wallet and upgraded the digital wallet’s app for Wear OS with support for three new features. Let’s take a look at the announcements and features. Google Wallet app for Android now available in 9 more countries Google has announced that it has launched the Google Wallet app […]
Read MoreGoogle Wallet is becoming a lot more useful over the past year or so. You can use this app on your Samsung phone to save credit/debit cards, movie tickets, boarding passes, digital ID cards, and membership cards. Now, Google lets you save everything that can be converted into digital passes. Google Wallet can convert almost […]
Read MoreGoogle made the cover screen on its Z Flip series phone a lot more usable with the Galaxy Z Flip 5. The 3.4-inch cover screen can display several widgets and even some apps, but it didn’t support Google Wallet. That seems to have changed now, as the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and the Galaxy Z […]
Read MoreGoogle’s Pixel smartphones and tablets offer a Quick Setting toggle for Google Wallet if the app for the digital wallet service is installed on those devices, allowing users to quickly open it and access ID cards or make payments. However, Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets don’t offer that nifty feature even with its app installed.Summarize […]
Read MoreYour Galaxy phone with NFC can already make tap-to-pay mobile payments and unlock smart door locks. But it can do one more thing now: it can unlock your hotel room using a virtual key provided by your hotel. To use this feature, you can use the Google Wallet app. Google Wallet can now store virtual […]
Read MoreSo far, Google Wallet for Wear OS has allowed you to make payments using credit or debit cards. Well, Google is now adding a new payment option to its digital wallet app for wearables. Google has announced that Google Wallet for Wear OS now supports PayPal. Currently, the feature is live only in the United […]
Read MoreUp until now, Google Wallet was capable of running on devices with Android 7.0 or newer versions of the operating system. It meant that you could use the company’s digital wallet on Samsung’s smartphones and tablets as old as the ones that came out in 2014, such as the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy Tab […]
Read MoreThe popular Google Wallet app is now available in India. In classic Google fashion, though, it doesn’t have all the features available in other countries. Google isn’t replacing Google Pay with Google Wallet, and both apps will continue to co-exist. Google Wallet is not as feature-rich as Samsung Wallet in India The Google Wallet app […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, 9To5Google reported that Google Wallet on Wear OS had started asking for the PIN to make tap-to-pay transactions for some users. While the change offered increased security, many people were disappointed with it as they would now have to go through an additional step on their Galaxy Watch to make payments. Well, […]
Read MoreGoogle Wallet is one of the most useful apps for Android devices as it allows you to store and access identification (ID) cards or documents, payment cards, boarding passes, and event tickets among other things. Unfortunately, it isn’t available in the world’s most populous country, India. Fortunately, that’s going to change soon. As spotted by […]
Read MoreGoogle Wallet is among the most used digital wallet apps in Western markets. It has now started supporting Apple Wallet passes, which is excellent, as many services offer passes for Apple Wallet. It has also received support for linked passes, which sometimes improve the user experience. These Google Wallet features work on Galaxy phones, too. […]
Read MoreOne of the downsides of Google Wallet is that it does not support the pkpass file format, a type of file that holds information about a digital pass. It is developed by Apple and supported by Apple Wallet. So, if you purchase a ticket from a website and the platform sends you an email containing […]
Read MoreGoogle has announced that Google Wallet will now automatically fetch boarding passes and movie tickets from emails on Gmail. According to the company, the new feature “is live for some global movie chains and airlines” and it is “working to expand this.” Up until now, there were two ways to add a ticket to Google […]
Read MoreIf you use Google Wallet, you might know that the app automatically archives passes once they expire. Unfortunately, it doesn’t let you manually archive passes if you need to for whatever reason. Well, that seems to have changed. According to a new report from 9To5Google, Google Wallet now lets you archive passes manually. The option […]
Read MoreYour Samsung Galaxy Watch, and in fact, your smartwatch running Wear OS 3.5 or above, is going to get more useful. Now, you won’t require an additional app to keep track of your flight boarding passes, as the feature is now available on the Google Wallet Wear OS app. Yes, you heard it right! Google […]
Read MoreGoogle may have delayed the stable Android 14 release, but the company has announced some new features that will eventually come to all relatively modern Android smartphones. The company is updating its famous At A Glance widget, the Google Wallet app, and a few other features. Starting with the At A Glance Widget, the Google […]
Read MoreThe Galaxy Z Flip 5 features a 3.4-inch cover display, which is much larger than the 1.9-inch unit on the Galaxy Z Flip 4. Along with increasing the size, Samsung has also made the outer display more useful than before by adding more features to it. One of them is the ability to run full-fledged […]
Read MoreGoogle Wallet, an app that allows people to make payments with their credit or debit cards at point-of-sale (PoS) terminals using their smartphones, works over NFC (Near Field Communication). The majority of mobile phones in developed countries, such as the US, are equipped with NFC. However, the number of smartphones featuring NFC in developing countries, […]
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