Google Wallet improves Wear OS app and expands website, Gmail integration

The latest updates to Google Wallet span the Wear OS app (passes), website, and Gmail integration (train tickets).

As part of “improving the passes experience for Wear users,” the Google Wallet app on your wrist now supports:

• Grouped passes appear together in the list. When tapped, “each pass will be shown on a carousel.”
• Pass archiving: Open a pass and scroll down for “Archive” alongside “Delete pass” and “Open on phone.” Will move to “Archived passes” section at the very bottom of the Wear OS app 
• “Unscannable passes”

These updates are now widely available.

Wallet.google.com was introduced earlier this year to let you manage Google Wallet and Google Pay on the web. It’s now available in the following countries:

That’s 43 countries after previously only being available in 15 this July. Google says this is “just phase 1 of our journey of making it available to every GPay and Wallet user, everywhere!”

Similarly, Google Wallet for Android is now available in the following countries:

• Bermuda
• Cambodia
• El Salvador
• Guernsey
• Kosovo
• Morocco
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Tajikistan

Train tickets that appear in Gmail (as confirmation emails) will now show up in Google Wallet. This joins loyalty cards, movie tickets, and boarding passes.

Other Google Wallet updates (for developers) include: 

• “The closed loop transit API now supports physical to digital card conversion.”
• “Google Wallet now supports VDV (((eTicket Services Motics spec for secure mobile ticketing in Germany. Transit agencies and developers are welcome to leverage Google Wallet specifications here to cryptographically secure tickets from copying, falsification or fraud.”

More on Google Wallet:

• Google Wallet will let you make digital IDs with US passports, 3 more state IDs coming 
• Google Wallet adds support for fifth state ID
• Google Wallet widely rolling out ‘Everything else’ pass creator in the US