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

Canyda said:
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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Does TicketMaster’s app allow you to add the tickets to Wallet? If so, then yes, it’ll work. It seems like you’ll be able to share basically anything from Wallet. If the app doesn’t let you store the tickets in Wallet, then you’re out of luck.
 
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This will be useful when I'm traveling with my family. I wonder what other kinds of things could be shared like this? It would be cool to split a bill with someone this way.

dcingie said:
Can we PLEASE just figure out how to make HomePods and HomePod minis reliably airplay from our phones? Instead of these fringe use cases that will be used by 0.3% of the user base? My god.
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I've never had this issue. They connect instantly every time and playback for hours. Perhaps there is some kind of wireless interference going on near these devices?
 
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macduke said:
This will be useful when I'm traveling with my family. I wonder what other kinds of things could be shared like this? It would be cool to split a bill with someone this way.


I've never had this issue. They connect instantly every time and playback for hours. Perhaps there is some kind of wireless interference going on near these devices?
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Mine worked like garbage. I recently renamed them all whcih is as told to do and which I think has helped… though my Mac mini is very finicky with whether or not i can airplay to it after I’ve already selected some HomePods
 
I've always been skeptical of this when it comes to sharing event tickets. Is it as simple as airdropping a ticket that is in my wallet to my friend? I've always just assumed it's better to transfer via seatgeek, ticketmaster, axs, etc. Though these transfer tools are always not very convenient because it requires me to know their email address and then they have to accept the transfer, blah blah blah.
 
gatorvet96 said:
Because when I travel with my wife both boarding passes are on my email and app. I then have to share her boarding pass with her. Every time we travel I do this.
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Get your wife her own loyalty account and the reservation will link across accounts.
 
kc9hzn said:
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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Precisely.
 
kc9hzn said:
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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Only thing to add is that now with it takes even less effort, just flick you thumb to swipe upward and continue scrolling.

Just remember that ‘quality’ journalism depends on reduced attention spans. 🤣
 
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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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You might as well share spit with NameDrop
 
dcingie said:
Can we PLEASE just figure out how to make HomePods and HomePod minis reliably airplay from our phones? Instead of these fringe use cases that will be used by 0.3% of the user base? My god.
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How about fixing bug that caused all my AirTags to disappear from my phone but nowhere else.
 
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Bringing two phones together should offer to share whatever is active on the screen using AirDrop
 
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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I get what you are saying and certainly, if you can print out all the passes on one sheet like in the olds days then this is the digital equivalent. But also I feel like it should be on Airline companies' web designers to provide a way to email the separate passes because if they have an iPhone they have an email and should really get it that way. But I certainly wont complain about additional ways to make my life easier!
EDIT: Also ayyy another Amateur radio operator! Mine is K2___ hehe. You could probably find out the rest but I try and have some privacy


Bringing two phones together should offer to share whatever is active on the screen using AirDrop
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I'd love this as a feature but definitely make it something you have to manually enable. I think an autoscreenshot and send feature would be amazing too.
 
I can say on United anyone with the app can download/put in wallet their own BP. But often it’s easier for one person to check in the family and then share the BPs.
 
Canyda said:
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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Ticketmaster is awful about this. They purposefully disabled sharing of tickets in the wallet app at some point in the last few years, presumably to make scalping harder but with the side effect of making it a pain for the rest of us.
 
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bodhisattva said:
Or we see gadgets on sale to "block" others from stealing your info with this new evil feature.
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It stems from the same ignorance as the idea that people can steal your money if they know your bank account number, which is to say it demonstrates a total lack of understanding how something works.

But hey, welcome to the 2020s where everyone gets to make up their own facts 😅
 
RealE said:
Ticketmaster is awful about this. They purposefully disabled sharing of tickets in the wallet app at some point in the last few years, presumably to make scalping harder but with the side effect of making it a pain for the rest of us.
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Ticketmaster is a great example of a practical monopoly that doesn't need to take users' needs to account all that much
 
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dcingie said:
Can we PLEASE just figure out how to make HomePods and HomePod minis reliably airplay from our phones? Instead of these fringe use cases that will be used by 0.3% of the user base? My god.
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Amen. The original AirPlay worked so reliably and intuitively, it feels like the technology has just gotten worse (certainly from a UX perspective) since then.

Simplicity is key.
 
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RealE said:
Ticketmaster is awful about this. They purposefully disabled sharing of tickets in the wallet app at some point in the last few years, presumably to make scalping harder but with the side effect of making it a pain for the rest of us.
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Is it because Apple is offering sharing instead of transferring? If the scalper’s ticket stays on his phone after a transaction he could sell the same ticket a hundred times which would risk a security problem at the door.
 
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