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iOS 17.2 Adds NameDrop-Like Feature for Sharing Boarding Passes, Movie Tickets, and More

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Starting with the upcoming iOS 17.2 software update, there is a new NameDrop-like feature that allows an iPhone user to quickly share boarding passes, movie tickets, and other Wallet app passes with another iPhone user.

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To use the feature, open the Wallet app and tap on the pass that you want to share. Then, hold your iPhone near the top of another iPhone, and a "Share" button will appear below the pass on your iPhone. Finally, tap on the "Share" button to send the pass to the other iPhone via AirDrop. Both iPhones must be updated to iOS 17.2.

While it is already possible to share many Wallet app passes via AirDrop, Messages, Mail, and more through the iOS sharing menu, this new feature aims to provide a quicker and more convenient method. It works similarly to NameDrop, an iOS 17 feature that lets users quickly share contact information by bringing two iPhones together.

The feature is mentioned in the iOS 17.2 release notes: "AirDrop improvements including expanded contact sharing options and the ability to share boarding passes, movie tickets, and other eligible passes by bringing two iPhones together." The software update is in the final stage of beta testing and should be released next week.

iOS 17.2 includes many other new features and changes, including a Journal app, spatial video recording on iPhone 15 Pro models, several improvements to the Messages and Weather apps, a Favorite Songs playlist in Apple Music, and more.

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supremedesigner said:
Not long.
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Yeah, alas, that’s the kind of angle that would really have legs. Never mind that you’d have to intentionally share your keys, which already is a thing with physical keys (especially considering how mere pictures can allow skilled key makers to replicate a good number of consumer grade keys, makes them less secure than Wallet, that’s for sure).
 
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mongobongo said:
Why would you want to share your boarding pass with anyone?
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If you bought tickets for you and a spouse, they might want to have their pass on their phone. But the airline emailed them to you, since you bought both. Another scenario, you’ve got a kid flying to college, and you bought their tickets. Again, the passes were emailed to you, but with this you could just share the boarding pass right before going up to the baggage check. Are there other ways of handling these situations? Sure, but they’re probably not as seamless as NameDrop.
 
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mongobongo said:
Why would you want to share your boarding pass with anyone?
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My wife is decidedly non-techie. So i do all the airline check-in procedures online and sort out the digital boarding passes for us. This option makes it easier for me to get both boarding passes on my phone and share hers, rather than me have to, when doing digital check in, have hers sent to her email and then she having to fiddle with adding it to her Wallet.
 
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retrac1324 said:
How long until news outlets start warning that people can steal their wallet cards?
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I find it fascinating how "news outlets" can spread utterly false information about technology, and technology people will pick up on it and point it out. But those same people are incapable of recognizing just how often the same news outlets are spreading false information about...nearly everything else.
 
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bommai said:
I thought sharing passes was already there.
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It was- I think the point here is the automatic sharing with proximity.

BUT, much to my frustration, this is toggled on and off by the provider... some airports don't let you share them for some reason (which is frustrating for the cases discussed above where you bought the tickets and want to share the passes with everyone but your frustrated spouse just makes the airport print paper ones because you are in a high stress situation trying to figure out why the share button that is supposed to be there is just missing...)
 
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kc9hzn said:
If you bought tickets for you and a spouse, they might want to have their pass on their phone. But the airline emailed them to you, since you bought both. Another scenario, you’ve got a kid flying to college, and you bought their tickets. Again, the passes were emailed to you, but with this you could just share the boarding pass right before going up to the baggage check. Are there other ways of handling these situations? Sure, but they’re probably not as seamless as NameDrop.
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iStorm said:
Because the person who books the flights usually gets all the passes for the seats booked. You have to get them to your travel partners somehow. I do this all the time by using iMessage or AirDrop. This will make it a little easier.

EDIT: kc9hzn beat me to it
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vpr611 said:
For families this is ideal, reservations are often made by one person so being able to share boarding passes easily makes sense, same with tickets.
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Canyda said:
My wife is decidedly non-techie. So i do all the airline check-in procedures online and sort out the digital boarding passes for us. This option makes it easier for me to get both boarding passes on my phone and share hers, rather than me have to, when doing digital check in, have hers sent to her email and then she having to fiddle with adding it to her Wallet.
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Oh ok, I didn't realise you could save other peoples boarding pass to your own wallet.
 
AlastorKatriona said:
I find it fascinating how "news outlets" can spread utterly false information about technology, and technology people will pick up on it and point it out. But those same people are incapable of recognizing just how often the same news outlets are spreading false information about...nearly everything else.
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Good old Gell-Mann Amnesia!

Michael Crichton:
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
 
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I wonder if Ticketmaster will adopt this within their app. As a very infrequent event goer, I was quite surprised this summer when buying tickets for a friend that I automatically got both tickets in my app, and I had to transfer them to him using the Ticketmaster app through his TM account.
 
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