Google is giving Wallet on Android a fairly big refresh, with a redesigned homepage, improved search and a new live flight tracking feature all starting to roll out now.<\/p>\n
The most noticeable changes land on the home screen. While your payment cards stay put at the top, everything underneath has been reworked. Passes like tickets, loyalty cards and boarding passes are no longer shown as full-width tiles. Instead, they now appear\u00a0two per row, with more visual styling to help differentiate each one at a glance.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just cosmetic, either. You can now\u00a0reorder passes by dragging them\u00a0and choosing exactly which ones appear on the homepage. This gives the app a bit more flexibility than before.<\/p>\n
Navigation has also been tweaked. The old floating \u201c+\u201d button in the bottom corner has been replaced with a\u00a0new split button in the centre. One side still takes you to \u201cAdd to Wallet,\u201d while the other opens a new\u00a0\u201cView more\u201d page. This page finally introduces proper search. From here, you can look up transactions, saved passes and payment methods. There are separate sections and recent items are clearly laid out.<\/p>\n
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Alongside the redesign, Google is also adding a more dynamic feature for travellers. Wallet now supports\u00a0Live Updates for flights\u00a0on Android 16<\/a> and above. If you\u2019ve added a boarding pass, the app can show a persistent, real-time progress tracker. This tracker includes departure info, an estimated arrival time, and a progress bar, and you will see it directly on your lock screen and always-on display.<\/p>\n Tap into it and you\u2019ll jump straight to your ticket, with quick access to more details via Google Flights<\/a>. The feature builds on existing Wallet notifications that already surface things like boarding time changes and check-in reminders through Gmail integration.<\/p>\n The redesign is rolling out gradually, so you might not see it immediately. Google says it should appear once you\u2019re running the latest versions of\u00a0Google Wallet<\/a> and Google Play services<\/a> (v26.15.33).<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a full reinvention, but between the cleaner layout and better organisation tools, Wallet is starting to feel a lot less like a basic card holder, while the more useful travel features make it feel a bit more like a proper digital hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is giving Wallet on Android a fairly big refresh, with a redesigned homepage, improved search and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-605523","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\/605523","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=605523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}