{"id":540011,"date":"2026-03-23T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540011\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:15:14","slug":"dont-use-google-wallet-on-your-pixel-without-changing-these-2-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540011\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t use Google Wallet on your Pixel without changing these 2 settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter what phone I’m using, whether it’s an iPhone or Android, the first thing I do when I get my hands on it is set up either Apple Wallet or Google Wallet<\/a>. I rely on my digital wallet so much every day, whether it’s tapping to get gas, pay for groceries, or grab a coffee. So naturally, when I recently got my hands on the new Pixel 10a<\/a>, setting up Google Wallet was at the top of my agenda. <\/p>\n

And if you use Google Wallet every day on your Pixel as I do, there are two settings you should change that are vital to making the experience even smoother — and one of them is something Google only recently added.<\/p>\n

When Android 16<\/a> rolled out last June, one new Pixel feature that I feel flew under the radar was the ability to change what double-pressing the power button does. Before Android 16, the only thing a double press of the power button could do on a Pixel was open the camera. But with Android 16, Google finally added the option to double-press it to open Google Wallet instead. <\/p>\n

It’s a quick, seamless way to make a payment, and luckily, Google has made it very easy to change this on Pixels. Also, there’s a way to add Google Wallet as a shortcut on your home screen so you can access the app easily whenever you need it. Here’s how.<\/p>\n

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For starters, if you want Google Wallet to open when you double-press the power button on your Pixel — similar to how Apple Wallet works on an iPhone — you’ll need to head into your phone’s gesture settings. Here’s how to set it up step by step:<\/p>\n

1. Open Settings on your Pixel.<\/p>\n

2. Go to System.<\/p>\n

3. Scroll down and select Gestures.<\/p>\n

4. Choose Double press power button from the list of gestures.<\/p>\n

5. Select Wallet, instead of Camera.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve set the double-press power button action to Wallet, doing it will bring up Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay screen. From there, you can quickly pick the card you want and pay.<\/p>\n

If you just want to open Google Wallet to check something without jumping straight into the payment screen, you can also add a shortcut to your Pixel’s lock screen to easily access the app. Here’s how to set it up step by step:<\/p>\n

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1. Open Settings on your Pixel.<\/p>\n

2. Select Wallpaper and style.<\/p>\n

3. Choose the Lock screen option.<\/p>\n

4. Scroll down to Shortcuts.<\/p>\n

5. For either your left or right shortcut, choose Wallet.<\/p>\n

Now you’ll have a Google Wallet shortcut right on your Pixel’s lock screen, so if you need to quickly open it to find a loyalty card, train ticket, boarding pass, or anything else, it’s now much easier to do that.<\/p>\n

Additionally, you can also conveniently open Google Wallet by dragging down from the top of your screen to open the Quick Settings menu, then tapping the wallet icon.<\/p>\n

Pixel phones aren’t the only Android devices that support these kinds of Google Wallet shortcuts, either. On Samsung Galaxy devices, for example, you can change what a double-press of the power button does to open pretty much any app, including Google Wallet, and you can add app shortcuts to the lock screen, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No matter what phone I’m using, whether it’s an iPhone or Android, the first thing I do when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-540011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}