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Google started rolling out the ability to add a lot more items to its Wallet than ever before on Android 15. These items include, but aren’t limited to, tickets, keys, boarding passes, and ID cards. ‘Everything Else’ was announced at Google I/O earlier this year. Like every other product announced this year, Everything Else is powered by AI, too.
I have been using Apple Wallet for years, so I can only imagine how much of a hassle it would be not to have it. It is a relief to have a single app that houses everything from the tickets to an upcoming concert I’m going to, my student ID card, a few bank cards, a digital key to my apartment, and so on. But I also know the headache of having a PDF or a JPEG of a ticket for a movie or a show and not being able to add it to my Wallet. Anything scanned under Everything Else uses AI to catalog and sort any miscellaneous digital keys you might have hidden in an email or your camera roll and creates a convenient digital pass in your Google Wallet.
Google mentions in its blog that you can add, move, or remove any of these items on Google Wallet. To add an item, there’s an Add to Google Wallet option at the bottom of the screen that you can navigate to, and then you can pick the item you wish to add. The blog highlights detailed instructions on adding items from converted files or Gmail. You can also add an item from photos by simply taking a clear, high-res picture of it and then giving it a name and description. It can also create a pass for any image with a digital barcode.
Adding or moving around items may differ slightly depending on the platform you’re adding them. These platforms can include the Google Wallet app, another app with an ‘Add to Google Wallet’ option, or another Google product such as Gmail.
Google is notorious for releasing updates unevenly, with no accurate marker of who gets a feature and when. The revamped Google Wallet is slowly rolling out to more users over the next few weeks.
