Q: passbook doesn't work

I just completed the update to IOS 6 and I get the same problem when you open passcode.

Can not open App Store.

Must be a bug that apple needs to fix.

It sounds to me like the 10 companies currently involved all have little or no involvement in the UK or Europe so for us its just another Icon taking up memory that does nothing.

Thank you!

I just read on this forum that as different apps add passcode to their app and we use it then we will be able to excess this app. There are only 2 using it right now Walgreens reward card and one other.

Yes I have the exact same error message and problem with Passbook, plus when i select app store the screen is blank

This happened after upgrading to iOS 6

Pigeonor, your a genius!!! Thanks it worked like a charm on my 4S.  Doing the change date and time to a year ahead then opening apps then going back and setting date and time to automatic again!! Everyone listen to this guy( or gal) cause it works!!

I have tried my best to add "British airways boarding pass", my Tesco and Nectar  clubcards and the tickets I have to see Jimmy Carr to Passbook. No luck!

I was at an apple store yesterday and they told me it's an app related issue.  All the stores that have the cards need to put in for it to go to passbook.  I thought it would be like Cardstar where I could put in all my keyring store cards but unless the store has it set up - it won't go into passbook.

Just added the Walgreen App to Passbook.  It does work just fine if the App includes a Passbook option.

I added walgreen and Target also works

@Richard - I just click on the App Store button at the bottom of the screen when Passbook opened and it took me to the App Store where the Lufthansa App was asking to be installed.

I'm guessing it worked because by resetting your phone back a year, it reminds you to back it up.  I had all the same issues.  Once I backed up my iPhone, Passbook available apps are visible now.  No more error messages.

That's ridiculous.  The developers had all the time in the world to get their apps ready for Passbook by the time iOS 6 was released.

chazzarelli wrote:

 

So let me get this straight;  This supposedly big change to the IOS that adds this life changing application "Passbook" doesn't do what we all hoped or expected it to do.  Somebody please tell me I'm wrong.

 

I guess I was expecting this to work to replace all of these loyalty cards from airlines, hotels etc as well as keep my hotel stay's, flight itineraries/boarding passes, cupons, tickets and other things handy right on my phone.  No more fumbling around printed out copies of itineraries and hotel bookings, or digging through emails to find the info.  It would just be there on my phone through this revolutionary app.

 

But wrong again.  So far this app lets me add only a select few companies (10 to be exact - most of which are of no use to me).  I download those apps, and whoalla nothing happens.  I go to the app, add in my United Airlines info, and once again, go to passbook, and NOTHING HAPPENS.  I just get the App store picture, press it and it asks me to download the same apps.

 

I have no option to create a loyalty card for another airline besides Lufthansa or United.  Then I research and people say use this Passsource.com site to create passes.  Yet, for this you have to go through a TON of programming to create a pass, and even then it doesn't do it because now I have to sign up for $8 a month to be able to create passes. 

 

ARE YOU SERIOUS?  Please tell me I'm in the wrong here, because this has to be one of the most disapointing apps I've ever encountered.  And this is one of Apple's biggest new feature... 

 

Can anyone explain if I've got it wrong?

It certainly lacks usefulness at this early stage.  However, it may do more in the future.  At least I can use it to display my Walgreens reward card, but then the Walgreens app does that...  It's in my 'not used' folder so far.

I really thought I would, at least, get some use out of it by scanning my loyalty cards into it, but that doesn't seem to be how it works.