Apple Wallet App on Ipad

Hi, Guys,

Sorry to phrase it that way, but, really, is there ever any member of Apple’s Board eve listening to the voice of your Customers.


It’s now been years that for an undisclosed reason, some in your Company decided that IPads and only IPads would not benefit from the Apple Wallet App.


You regularly receive thousands of questions and complaints about it, and anyone looking for it will find tons of blogs on that subject on the web.


Now, how does Apple answer to all Customers?

Sometimes you do not answer at all. Or you answer with a laconic « there is no Apple Wallet App » on IPad. Or sometimes, even worse, you setup an « answer » about Apple Pay, despite the fact question was NOT about Apple Pay, but about Apple Wallet (do you believe Customers are too stupid to make the difference, maybe?)


Like loads of Apple Customers, I do travel a lot, and I’m not booking flights, trains and hotels with my IPhone. IPad is much more comfortable for that, and is actually the « natural » entry door for such bookings. But someone at Apple’s decided one day that WE, the Customers paying and even paying very well (too much?) for Products, would never be able to store our in Apple Wallet on our Ipads, and would have to switch from our Ipads to our IPhones to do so.


Is this the famous concept of continuity pushed by Apple for year? Making sure you will maximise administrative burden for the Customers, rather than « walking in the shoes » of your Customers (Oyakudashi principle) and finally recognise it is a stupid decision not to support Apple Wallet on IPads.


I’d really appreciate to get Tim Cook’s answer on this point.

iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi, Cellular

Posted on Oct 18, 2022 10:14 AM

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Posted on Oct 18, 2022 11:01 AM

Why are you arguing with other users on a user to user only forum, none of whom work for Apple, nor can bring you the functionality you seem to want on iPad? All anyone on this forum can tell you is Apple Wallet as it appears on iPhone is simply not available on iPad.


Tell Apple what you want. Use the provided a link a couple posts above for you to provide feedback to Apple. You're simply wasting your time telling other users what you want here.


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Oct 18, 2022 11:01 AM in response to arnauld1962

Why are you arguing with other users on a user to user only forum, none of whom work for Apple, nor can bring you the functionality you seem to want on iPad? All anyone on this forum can tell you is Apple Wallet as it appears on iPhone is simply not available on iPad.


Tell Apple what you want. Use the provided a link a couple posts above for you to provide feedback to Apple. You're simply wasting your time telling other users what you want here.


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Oct 18, 2022 10:29 AM in response to arnauld1962

Addressing the technical aspects alone…


The Wallet App is unique to iPhone due to device hardware.


The iPhone Wallet uses NFC to wirelessly communicate with physical Point of Sale (PoS) terminals - NFC being the mechanism used by ApplePay (and Google’s Android equivalent) to securely exchange registered Credit Card details and authorise a payment.


The Apple Wallet App has dependency upon NFC hardware which is absent from all models of iPad. Consequently, the Wallet App is not available for iPad. Whilst perhaps a moot point, consider the practicalities of attempting to bring a specific area of an iPad (which may be sizeable) within close range (1.8”) of a PoS terminal!


Whilst iPad does not have a Wallet App per-se, iPad does have Wallet in iPad settings. Here you can register Credit Cards for ApplePay - but this is not intended for NFC. Instead, iPad is able to participate in remote e-commerce payments - such as a website.


I hope this explanation brings useful clarity as to the capabilities of both iPad and iPhone in context of ApplePay and Wallet.

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