Google announced at its Google I/O conference that a new feature called “Nearby Passes Notifications” will be added to Google Wallet in the next update.
How it works is that if a user has an event pass in their wallet and is near the event’s location, Google Wallet will send a notification with a preview of the pass. Clicking on the notification will allow users to access the pass and the barcode needed for it.
Previously, notifications would pop up on the day of the event and stay there until the event was complete. This change makes it more convenient and also cleans up the notifications tab by not having it there all day.
As SamMobile‘s Abid Iqbal Shaik points out, the Nearby Passes Notifications will need to be enabled manually. According to the Google Developer’s Blog for the new updates, “this feature is designed to provide timely and relevant information by alerting users about pertinent passes, such as loyalty cards, offers, boarding passes, or event tickets, when they approach a designated point of interest.”
That isn’t everything, however, as Google has added two new toggles alongside that to further customize the feature to the user’s liking. According to Google, notifications can be turned on or off for different passes from the pass details screen. This allows different passes to be shown notifications, compared to others; as an example, if a user did not want loyalty cards to pop up as a notification, or did not care for notifications for boarding passes. The second toggle will be to control whether or not the user wants nearby pass notifications.
Via: SamMobile
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