{"id":797932,"date":"2026-07-12T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797932\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:54:05","slug":"google-wallet-now-lets-you-track-flights-from-your-lock-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797932\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Wallet now lets you track flights from your lock screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a> just made life a tiny bit easier for <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/android\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Android<\/a> users who love to travel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/21\/google-wallet-live-updates-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">9to5google<\/a> spotted a new lock screen widget for Android 16 that gives you persistent progress updates on your flights. It&#8217;s very simple and straightforward: It shows your departing airport, your destination airport, your estimated arrival time, and a progress bar measuring how deep into the flight you are. <\/p>\n<p>As 9to5google noted, this is on top of some already-existing features for travelers who add their boarding passes to the Google Wallet app. Those include push notifications about flight changes, but the flight progress widget is brand-new, having\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/10\/20\/google-wallet-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">been promised by Google<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n<p>\n            Mashable Light Speed\n        <\/p>\n<p>        SEE ALSO:<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/google-android-settlement-135-million-how-to-get-money\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            Google could pay $135 million settlement to U.S. Android users. How to get your money.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to try it, well, you&#8217;d better have a flight lined up first. Add the boarding pass to Google Wallet, and the widget should appear shortly before takeoff. In other words, you don&#8217;t really have to do anything other than put your boarding pass in your phone. <\/p>\n<p>This marks another step forward for Google Wallet, which <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/google-pay-shutting-down-replaced-by-google-wallet\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">replaced Google Pay in 2024<\/a> as the go-to destination for credit cards and other important kinds of digital documentation on Android devices. By all accounts, it&#8217;s been a successful transition for Android users, and if Google keeps adding neat little conveniences like this flight tracker widget, it&#8217;ll only get better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google just made life a tiny bit easier for Android users who love to travel. 9to5google spotted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,190,61],"class_list":["post-797932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}