Discover Card appears to be stepping up its support for a convenient new feature in the Apple Wallet app as of iOS 17.1 beta 3, which is available for developers to test on their devices starting Tuesday.
Starting this week, Apple device users can officially add their PayPal and Venmo credit and debit cards to their Apple Wallet for use with Apple Pay at merchants that accept the convenient NFC-based touchless payment method.
For all the folks who enjoy customizing every facet of their iPhone or iPad, a new add-on is now available for devices susceptible to the MacDirtyCow exploit on iOS 15.0-16.1.2 and the kfd exploit on iOS 16.0-16.6 beta 1.
watchOS 10 lets you add a credit or debit card to Apple Pay directly in the watch's Wallet app, as well as finish the setup—without requiring your paired iPhone.
PayPal also says customers will soon be able to add PayPal and Venmo credit and debit cards to Apple Wallet to use anywhere Apple Pay is accepted.
Apple has made it possible to delete stock apps, like the Stocks app for instance, from your iPhone for quite some time now. But, there are still some first-party apps that don't support the "feature" just yet, like the Wallet app. But even that might be changing in the near future.
Apple's big WWDC keynote is underway, and the company is in the midst of announcing a number of changes and improvements coming to iOS 16. Among them is a big update for the Wallet app which includes new ID interactions, expanded smart key support, and a new Pay Later feature.
The US state of Maryland will soon permit folks to add state IDs and driver’s licenses to the iPhone’s Wallet app to present at TSA checkpoints.
The European Commission is currently moving forward with an antitrust case against Apple's mobile wallet. The focus is primarily the fact that Apple locks down the Near-Field Communication (NFC) chip inside eligible iPhone models, which prevents third-party companies from accessing it. Therefore the only tap-to-pay option on an iPhone is Apple Pay, which is obviously not something companies that aren't Apple enjoy that much.