Google seems to be working on bringing Wallet back in some form after it made the app part of Google Pay, the Verge reports. According to Mishaal Rahman, the company is creating a Wallet interface for Google Play Services that will act as a way to access and manage your payment and transit cards, passes, rewards memberships, and more.
Currently, you manage most of these in Google Pay, and it seems likely that you’ll be able to get to the new Wallet UI from within that app, which Rahman says will still be used for contactless payments. It also appears that the cards you put into your Wallet will be accessible from elsewhere, as the screenshots show a link saying “learn how passes in your Wallet will appear across Google.”
This version of Wallet seems to duplicate plenty of the contactless features and functions of the current version of Google Pay without the additional bloat. This UI is built into Google Play Services, which could point to a new split between Wallet and Pay, effectively returning us to a pre-2018 payment platform on Android.
„It’s an interesting idea, and while not everyone will be happy to see two different payment platforms on their devices once more, it’s clear that Pay’s plan to compete with apps like Venmo and Mint has not caught on. We’ll have to wait to see when Google’s ready to announce this relaunched digital wallet initiative, but with I/O less than a month away, this service might be just around the corner,” according to the Android Police.
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„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
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