Google is rolling out Google Wallet through an update to the old Google Pay app.
Google Wallet is about to replace Google Pay for good. Google, which announced it at Google I/O, its annual conference, has just started its deployment. The application should be offered in the coming days to all users through a Google Pay update from the Play Store.
More complete than Google Pay, the Google Wallet is intended to carry your payment cards, gift cards, train and plane tickets, transport tickets. The application can also embed your vaccination pass, hotel keys, professional badges, concert tickets, loyalty cards and even your dematerialized car keys. As with Apple Cards, Google Wallet displays the cards in a vertical carousel, with the different configured payment cards at the top of the list. Google also plans to soon integrate identity cards and other dematerialized driving licenses, at least in the United States. Google also plans to integrate its Wallet for use with other Google apps.
However, if the Google Pay application disappears, Google retains its name and functionality. All transactions made with one of your payment cards, as well as payments made online through this means (in particular on the Play Store), will remain identified under the name Google Pay.
Originally launched in 2011, the Wallet was removed in 2015 by Google, which had chosen to replace it with Android Pay, which became Google Pay in 2018 in an attempt to compete with Apple.
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