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How to get started with iOS 6′s most underrated new app: Passbook

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 · 12:33 pm · 20 Comments

“iOS 6 includes Passbook, Apple’s new app which allows you to store boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and more on your iPhone,” Jason D. O’Grady reports for ZDNet.

“The cool part is that Passbook passes appear on your iPhone Lock screen and they’re geo-fenced, which means that your Starbucks cards automatically appears when you step into a Starbucks,” O’Grady reports. “There aren’t a lot of apps that support Passbook presently, but Apple launched with an impressive list of partners.”

Read more in the full article here.

Categories: News

Tags: iOS 6, Passbook

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20 Comments

Muscat

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:40 pm · Reply

As usual apples US and China centric approach is apparent in the passbook app as well. In majority of regions there are no passbook partners … Apple you are a global company service over a 100 countries , come out of the US and offlate china mode and think and server global audience.
- Spark
  
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:52 pm · Reply
  
  It’s up to individual companies to implement PassBook utilization. There is no Country-centric element to this. The geo-fencing runs off of GPS, not Maps, so the poor map support in some countries does not impact PassBook.
John gage

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:43 pm · Reply

How does it know that I just stepped into Starbucks ,if it goes by apple maps I might have just stepped into my local petrol station.
- peterblood71
  
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:56 pm · Reply
  
  Thanks for the cheap disingenuous shot at Apple Maps. Get it while you can.
  - John gage
    
    Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 2:48 pm · Reply
    
    Where I live in the uk apple maps says my local food shop is a petrol garage and there are loads of mistakes like that in the uk, I’m only stating facts.
    - Piccio
      
      Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 4:11 pm · Reply
      
      Same here in NYC
    - praus
      
      Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 5:21 pm · Reply
      
      The best way to improve that is to report it and keep using it. I can’t count the number of mistakes I found on Google Maps when it first came out. I still do find errors too.
      
      Based on their past reputation with other software updates, I expect this stuff to get fixed fast.
PC Apologist

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:49 pm · Reply

A – Apple Maps geofencing….

B – “presently” is not the same as “currently”
Chuklz

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:49 pm · Reply

Headline should say “… on iPhone”.
I have iOS 6 on my iPad but no Passbook.
- Bob
  
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 1:05 pm · Reply
  
  Yeah. I guess Apple staff only travel by private jet, so they don’t see all the rest of us who travel with an iPad and no iPhone.
- TomPMRI
  
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 1:06 pm · Reply
  
  I don’t understand why this is not on all iOS 6 devices. Why not on the iPad, Apple?
  - Spark
    
    Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 1:30 pm · Reply
    
    I think PassBook is being groomed as the “digital wallet”. It’s meant to be used on a device that you carry with you at all times: iPhone. Most iPad owners do not carry their iPad into every store or purchase point they visit.
  - CC of oz
    
    Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 4:26 pm · Reply
    
    Passbook is on 4th generation iPod Touch with iOS6.
    - Bizlaw
      
      Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 5:04 pm · Reply
      
      Yes, but it’s not on iPads.
  - Shock Me
    
    Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 9:42 pm · Reply
    
    Because the iPad is less portable and comes in a WiFi-only version. But I do agree it would be nice on the iPad for making lists, buying movie tickets, and planning trips and such. But are you really going to flash your iPad in like at Target and Walgreens?
ColDan

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 1:32 pm · Reply

Passport can be the best program in the world , why was it not included with ios6 for IPAD
- Les Cayes
  
  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 1:52 pm · Reply
  
  Probably because not all versions of iPad have built-in GPS.
  - A View From the Other Side
    
    Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 2:06 pm · Reply
    
    It supports the iPod Touch, and none of them have GPS…
    
    Apple’s excuse “Uh, ya the iPad hardware isn’t good enough to support this app”….
JM

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 1:48 pm · Reply

As a Mac user for the last 16 years, Passbook is one of the worst apps I’ve seen from Apple since Jobs returned. You open it up for the first time, there’s no info on how it works, its not obvious, it just sends you a link to the AppStore (if that link works without changing the iPhone’s clock forward a year). Then a normal user can buy an app and then have no idea what to do. In the case of Walgreens, you create an account, create a rewards card, pull up the rewards card, then you say add to Passbook.

This is such a horrible UI and process its ridiculous. If i Had to Google “how to start passbook” when I got it, I can’t imagine what 90% of users did, most likely they shut it down and never used it again.
JM

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 1:48 pm · Reply

Sorry, 26 years, not 16.