Google is also integrating its Wallet app with other services like Google Maps.

This means it'll become a place to store all your IDs, credit and debit cards, airline boarding passes, and more. The updated Wallet app currently supports tap-to-pay cards that appear in a carousel, with the aforementioned support for other types of cards expected to arrive sometime later.The idea behind the Google Wallet app is pretty straightforward - replace your physical wallet with a digital one that stays inside your phone. Meanwhile, Google Wallet will roll out as an update to the old GPay. The Google Play Services backend will handle tap-and-pay, while in the U.S., the new Google Pay will handle P2P payments.įor the time being, Google Pay will compete with Apple Pay. It seems Google has determined that Google Pay and Google Wallet apps will live alongside each other for now. It already has a rather limited fork called “Google Pay (Tez)”.Īrs Technica reports that the package name for Google Wallet is “.walletnfcrel,” which suggests “Google Wallet is an in-place upgrade for the old Google Pay app”. However, even GPay’s rollout is rather confusing. The newer Google Pay app, on the other hand, seems to be a development focused on offering cardless and contactless payments through smartphones. Perhaps Google wants to subtly remind users about the platform’s multiple functions and support for several types of authentication and payment methods. But Google seems to have settled on naming the app Wallet. Google Wallet started its journey as Android Pay, which was later rebranded as Google Pay or GPay. Even virtual car keys and student IDs could be incorporated within the Wallet app. Additionally, according to 9To5Google, the Wallet app could take over not only the duties of credit and debit cards, but also serve as a replacement for travel tickets, flight boarding passes, gift/loyalty cards, and vaccination records. Google apparently wants the app to become a single destination for the majority of physical instruments of payments.

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