Converting "Add to Apple Wallet" shortcuts for Google Wallet?

asbath · Oct 31, 2023

Maybe I'm being dense here, but I've never been able to get a pass/ticket into my Google Wallet when an email/receipt only has the "Add to Apple Wallet" link. Is this possible?

I'd say easily half of the tickets I purchase online come with a shortcut in the email receipt for "Add to Apple Wallet" links, but nothing for "Add to Google Wallet". Some vendors like TicketMaster have their own app which you can use to open your reservation and add to your phone's digital wallet. But some more local vendors tend to only have an Apple Wallet shortcut.

While I've found some apps to act as a digital wallet (in place of the one built into the OS), I'd prefer to just stick to Google Wallet. Is there a way to "convert" an Apple Wallet shortcut to add to your Google Wallet instead?

Entegy · Nov 13, 2023

I don't think so. Those links go to items specifically formatted for Apple Wallet use. I don't think the pass package itself is encrypted and from what I can see, it's just assets and JSON data, but someone would have to make a converter for it anyway.

asbath · Nov 14, 2023

So I finally found an app that runs on Android that effectively does what I was looking for. It's just ad-driven, so it's annoying, but not the end of the world.

Pass2Pay:

Pass2Pay - Apps on Google Play

Pass2Pay the only application you'll need to have your tickets and cards ordered

play.google.com

You click on the "Add to Apple Wallet" link on your phone to download the .pkpass file. Open the app, thjen use the "Open .pkpass file" option. At the end of the process (after having to watch an ad), it converts the .pkpass into something that you can add to your Google Wallet. I used the Ad Guard firewall to disable the app's access to the internet, so even though no ad was actually loaded up, the app still added the .pkpass to Google Wallet after a 30 second wait.

Does it send your pass/ticket to some random server in China or Russia? Possibly, if you don't block the app's access to the internet. But at least it seems to work, and it's worked 3 times now for different tickets I've bought recently.

Hopefully this helps somebody else who's facing the same issue as I was, and hopefully this app keeps chugging along for some time to come

hestermofet · Nov 16, 2023

Awesome, thanks for the find.

If it's just a transformation of JSON from one schema that Apple Wallet understands to one that Google Wallet understands, should be straightforward to write. If I wasn't writing this type of code all day at work, it's something I would tackle for fun.

Might be a fun challenge to write using just sed syntax.

Entegy · Nov 16, 2023

You would have to pull the localization from the Apple-specific language format as well, so not straight JSON, but like I said, nothing seems to be encrypted in the pkpass package itself.

Entegy · Mar 20, 2024

Well looks like Google is making a converter itself

Google is rolling out support for Apple Wallet files

Google is reportedly rolling out support for Apple Wallet's .pkpass file format for its own Google Wallet.

mobilesyrup.com

papadage · Mar 20, 2024

I use the Pass2Pay app to produce a virtual business card for myself with a QR code and company logo. It's well worth the $2 to eliminate the ads and their logo on the cards the app produces.

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