After a long, long dance, Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) confirmed that Smart Navigo, the Paris region transit card for mobile will come to Apple Pay in 2023. As usual, Le Parisien broke the story (paywall), quickly reported on French Apple centric tech blog iGeneration. “This time, for sure, it will be […]
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The mobile wallet chokepoint
I ran across an untidy but interesting Twitter thread that mentioned Apple Pay Suica in the larger context of evolving NFC smartphone services. Suica (Metro card / digital money in Japan) now lets you transfer the card to Apple Pay. Some thoughts about the future of FOBs, cards, and wallets…You […]
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Deliciously timely iOS 15.4 Wallet and Mobile Suica day pass support
JR East announced 2 new features for Mobile Suica yesterday: day passes and student commuter pass online purchase and renewal support. Day passes are already available for plastic Suica, Mobile Suica support starts March 12. The 4 passes are: Nobiri Holiday, Tokyo Ward Pass, Tokyo Free Pass, Yokohama-Minatomirai Free Pass. […]
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Dealing with a lost Wallet
Yusuke Sakakura writes: As usual, I tried to get on the train using Apple Pay Suica at the ticket gate, but it didn’t respond at all and I got stuck. At first I thought it was because I was wearing a thick coat, so I held it up again, but […]
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QR Vaccination Certificate iOS 15 Wallet support comes to Japan (Updated)
The Japanese Government Digital Agency released a QR Code COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate app for iOS and Android today, 2021-12-21. The iOS app has support for SMART Health QR Code certificates that can be added to iOS 15.1 Wallet iPhone and later. The app requires a Japanese Individual Number Card (My […]