This is only meant for RARE access. You shouldn't be giving Walmart your physical card number, ever. But when you need it, it's already in Safari autofill. However Safari can't autofill from Wallet because there is no Wallet app on macOS.
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iOS 26: Save Physical Card Details in Wallet App
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I wish they would add the ability to customize the cards. For instance, I have 2 Citi Custom Cash cards, one is for gas and the other is for grocery stores. I’d love the ability to “name” them, or change the colors, anything to differentiate the two aside from the last 4 of the card number.
But for this feature that only the Apple Card has had until now, the wallet app requires you to do Face ID to view that info
What's more, once you back out of the app and if you are in the app switcher, it only shows the last 4 until you go back into there
Yea, got reminded of that by someone else already, if they implement that for all other cards, I'll be fine with that
It can't auto-fill but the cards are there - the Wallet "app" as such is in System Settings and one can manage the cards there, and they then become available for Apple Pay within Safari.
Apple Pay doesn't send the actual credit card number, but generates one for the device (e.g. iPhone or laptop) so it's a different concept to auto-fill. The latter is for websites which don't have apple pay and hence need real credit card details.
Good! Discover card puts way too many little hidden numbers all around the back of the card…. Which I didn’t discover (pun intended) until I had to call them and they wanted me to read them some three digit number from one corner.
Feels like a weak security practice, just like those extra questions: “what was your favorite flavor of ice cream as a child?” Like having two passwords instead of one passwords going to be more secure… 🙄
Feels like a weak security practice, just like those extra questions: “what was your favorite flavor of ice cream as a child?” Like having two passwords instead of one passwords going to be more secure… 🙄
That's exactly my point... Safari can't autofill from Wallet because there is no Wallet app on macOS (So Safari handles on macOS what Wallet handles on iOS)
The app name is “Password” and not “Dumb Password App That Can’t Be More Functional and Add Basic Features Typically Expected in a Password Nanager” (like our other “secrets” that we use in our everyday digital life). Got me?
I’m running the public beta and all the information is populated for me.
I didn’t have to manually enter anything.
When will the Wallet app get the ability to show transactions for cards other than Apple’s card?
I know I’m not supposed to give Walmart my card number…. But I’m using the Wallet app when I use Apple Pay to pay with the card in Walmart.
It’s not rare for me to pull out a card (often my company card) to pay for something online. Many webshops and services don’t support Apple Pay or autofill, and on my company computer it is against company policy to use autofill for the company credit card (yes really). And I use it just enough to be annoying, just rare enough that I can’t memorize the card numbers (I’m sure many can - I can’t).
Anyway, how often it is used is irrelevant to the discussion of where it belongs. Sure, we can leave it hidden deep in settings, but it’s meaningful for SOME people to have easier access. It makes zero sense to detach that easy access from the place where my card is stored: The wallet app.
The fact that you also need to autofill the card info in your browsers is whstvrequires you to have the info in two places. But you cannot detach the card from wallet, and you cannot autofill from wallet, so there is no scenario where you only have card info in one place. So, when you need to manually check your card numbers, you would do it where it intuitively makes the most sense: pull up your card in Wallet, push to flip it around and access the numbers. That is human driven UX. Why would I use the passwords app? My credit card is not a password.
Edit: Here’s my best explanation of our difference in logic: You want to access autofill data. I want to access card data.
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I have plenty of loyalty cards in wallet. You’ll have to speak to the suppliers of the card for that one.
Walmart is a bad example here
in person you do actually have to give walmart your card number to pay by phone as they dont support apple pay and have their own walmart pay which requires you to have your card number in walmarts app
75% of my credit cards do not support apple pay, only the main big name credit cards
Almost all my store credit cards also don't home depot, Lowe's etc all pop up saying no support. Then a lot of store reward cards, restaurants etc used to have apple pass have now removed it i have tons of “legacy” loyalty cards that no longer support apple wallet.
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Fair enough - I threw out Walmart as an example on in-store payment. My bad - replace Walmart with “in-store payment”.
The functionality does attempt to address the complaints. Although I would guess it was left out of the new Passwords app more to avoid partner complaints of Sherlocking from the likes of 1Password. From a functional standpoint I would say the “Passwords” app would be a viable fit for credit card details if you consider that a credit card is tantamount to a login/password to your bank account.
I would guess Apple wants to facilitate the recording of physical CC details in Wallet since it makes them accessible to Apple Pay. If a physical card lives in your wallet and you transact with it at the store then the payment processing bypasses Apple. If it’s in your Wallet on your iPhone there’s an increased likelihood you may transact with it and Apple will capture the fee. In other words, Apple has run the numbers and the placement in Wallet rather than Passwords is a series of calculations.
Sure, but that is not a limitation of the app. The context here is app features, and whether this feature belongs in Wallet or Passwords.
Off topic, but most of my loyalty programs no longer have physical cards, whether they support Wallet or not. Most are either tied to my credit card, so they are automatically applied, or tied to my phone number. Then there are outliers like Priority Pass, where digital card is an add-on at extra cost… some companies live in the 20th century.
The whole store credit card thing is not really a thing where I live, so I won’t pretend to be an expert on that. But anyway, irrelevant.
There’s nothing to say it can’t be both. It only makes sense that Wallet can show the info of the card that is saved there. It doesn’t make sense that you can edit that data, because that is literally the card data. Separate from that, it only makes sense that you can view and edit autofill data that you use in Safari or elsewhere, whether that happens in Safari or in Passwords, because that is just a saved version of something you put in.
If I for whichever reason want to be able to look up what my actual card numbers are, it makes the most sense to do it in wallet, where I know that what I am looking at is and can only be the actual data. What I am looking at in Safari or Passwords is whatever I want it to be. And just because I also have a need to save numbers for cards that don’t support Apple Pay, doesn’t mean that Wallet shouldn’t be able to show me the card data for cards that do support Apple Pay. They are separate things.
FYI I'm on iOS26 and there does seem to be some linkage between Safari->AutoFill->Credit cards and this new feature. I added physical card information in Wallet and selected to manually enter details and used "AutoFill" to fill in the data. Once I tried to save, it said that there was already an existing card and if I wanted to replace it which I did. If I edit a card description in Safari, when I view it now in the Wallet app it's updated. If I select to edit an existing card number in Wallet, there is an option to "Remove from Autofill".
So my guess is adding it to Wallet just provides a linkage to the same "storage" where AutoFill is and to link up which card in Wallet links to which card in AutoFill. So then Safari and Wallet pull from the same source.
So my guess is adding it to Wallet just provides a linkage to the same "storage" where AutoFill is and to link up which card in Wallet links to which card in AutoFill. So then Safari and Wallet pull from the same source.