Passbook

[SatManager]

does she have a screen protector?

i use my 4S at starbucks all the time and they have had the same scanners for years

I had the same problem and don't use a screen protector. Thy tried from both the Target app and from Passbook. Interestingly, I tried to use it at Starbucks and it didn't work there either, but she did say that the scanner there has been having problems.

 

[Razeus]

I went to Target yesterday and knowing that I had a Target coupon in Passbook I wanted to check out the whole "notification on the lock screen" thing. However when I got there I didn't get notified. I do have the coupon in PB and in the Target app it's set up with the store I went to. Any ideas? Could've been a one time thing but has anyone else seen this?

PB is broken. Plain and simple. Someone at Apple dropped the implementation ball.

 

[scrappledog]

So, in order to use Passbook, I need to download a bunch of extra apps, one for each service for which I hope to use Passbook to store tickets, etc?

This is REDUNDANT.

Passbook ought to contain a camera, scanner and be able to scan and organize a code from any service or company that chooses to opt in. I'm not going to clutter my phone with a Target app, for example, just to use Passbook.

 

[cynics]

Do you need to turn on "badge app icon" in notifications under passbook? I noticed that setting is off on my phone by default. It just has banners on.

 

[The Game 161]

finally have a few apps listed for passbook in the UK which didn't have before.

 

[Razeus]

So, in order to use Passbook, I need to download a bunch of extra apps, one for each service for which I hope to use Passbook to store tickets, etc?

This is REDUNDANT.

Passbook ought to contain a camera, scanner and be able to scan and organize a code from any service or company that chooses to opt in. I'm not going to clutter my phone with a Target app, for example, just to use Passbook.

Exactly. If all PB is doing is getting info from other apps and consolidating them, that's not very useful. I mean it's rare that I'll need airline tickets, sports tickets, movie tickets, my Starbucks card, and Target coupons all at the same time. Sure, the graphic Apple uses to advertise the feature looks nice, but it's not practical - users will have maybe 1-2 entries at a given time. Moving this app to the last screen along with the other useless Apple apps I can't remove.

I prefer something useful like Lemon Wallet. Now that's a nice app.

 

[AlliFlowers]

The apps updating to support Passbook are doing things like including links from their websites that will add directly to Passbook without having to install yet another app. This is how Sephora has handled it, and it was very straightforward and simple.

So, in order to use Passbook, I need to download a bunch of extra apps, one for each service for which I hope to use Passbook to store tickets, etc?

This is REDUNDANT.

Passbook ought to contain a camera, scanner and be able to scan and organize a code from any service or company that chooses to opt in. I'm not going to clutter my phone with a Target app, for example, just to use Passbook.

 

[rogerbarrett]

I don't think so that Pin Interest officially launched their app for mobile users.

 

[NeilSpoon]

I read something awhile back when I discovered CardStar. Some scanners won't work, because the glass screen reflects the IR back, and the scanner can't read it.

Odeon cinemas (UK) have got an app where you can store a digital version of their reward card. I have tried several times, but their scanners cannot scan it. I would imagine due to the reflection of the screen.....

 

[FamiliaPhoto]

I went to Target yesterday and knowing that I had a Target coupon in Passbook I wanted to check out the whole "notification on the lock screen" thing. However when I got there I didn't get notified. I do have the coupon in PB and in the Target app it's set up with the store I went to. Any ideas? Could've been a one time thing but has anyone else seen this?

I went to two Targets yesterday. One was noted as my home Target in the Target app, got a notification, one was not, got no notification on the lock screen.

Seems there is something going on with how info is passed to passbook.

 

[fisherking]

starbucks is promised by 'the end of this month'...which should be any day now.
this one i use constantly, so looking forward to trying passbook out...

 

[From A Buick 8]

This is so stupid...I got target app installed and sent coupons to passbook. Now how do I make it show up so I can click on the App Store link again? All I see now is the coupon. I went into info and tried some things there but I don't see it.

Yeah I'd also like to know how to get back to this!

So how do you get back to the compatible apps in the app store from Passbook? I clicked on app store app and I don't see the apps for passbook. When I open passbook all it shows is the three cards I created.

I have this same question, i have read through this post and maybe i missed it, but how do you get back to the original screen after you have added a card.

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I went to two Targets yesterday. One was noted as my home Target in the Target app, got a notification, one was not, got no notification on the lock screen.

Seems there is something going on with how info is passed to passbook.

Only works for your "home" target

 

[scrappledog]

Passbook -- really not useful

Basically Passbook requires one to acquire a bunch of other apps related to specific companies/services with which you wish to use Passbook ... how is this useful in any way?

A properly designed internal app that kept all your tickets, coupons, etc. would internally contain coding for all the companies that have agreed to associate with the Passbook service. So, for instance, I'd just open Passbook's camera, scan my Target gift card, and it would save (or accumulate into others I'd already scanned). Or, if I was purchasing a ticket online from a broker who had an agreement with Passbook, I'd simply enter the proper information and the ticket would appear in Passbook.

As it stands, you're telling me I have to download the Target app (just using one example), further cluttering my device, use that app to import a coupon/gift card and then from there associate it with Passbook? And for every other service I wish to use with Passbook -- another app, more clutter.

How is any of this saving any time? How is this useful?

 

[soulsteelgray]

An app passing the .pkpass file to Passbook is not the only way to get a pass into Passbook, but it's likely that it's going to be the most common method utilized by companies. They can just as easily email you the .pkpass, or put up a link to it on their mobile site, and Passbook will accept it all the same.

You can also delete the apps you don't want once you've acquired the passes you want. No one said you had to keep them.

 

[shawnwich]

So, I posted in another thread before, but basically Passbook requires one to acquire a bunch of other apps related to specific companies/services with which you wish to use Passbook ... how is this useful in any way?

A properly designed internal app that kept all your tickets, coupons, etc. would internally contain coding for all the companies that have agreed to associate with the Passbook service. So, for instance, I'd just open Passbook's camera, scan my Target gift card, and it would save (or accumulate into others I'd already scanned). Or, if I was purchasing a ticket online from a broker who had an agreement with Passbook, I'd simply enter the proper information and the ticket would appear in Passbook.

As it stands, you're telling me I have to download the Target app (just using one example), further cluttering my device, use that app to import a coupon/gift card and then from there associate it with Passbook? And for every other service I wish to use with Passbook -- another app, more clutter.

How is any of this saving any time? How is this useful?

I think the idea for it is much broader. This isn't just a folder of tickets and passes - this is a standard for tickets and passes. The fact that it has an app is really more of an afterthought, as a time-saving measure, I would think.

 

[mrapplegate]

An app passing the .pkpass file to Passbook is not the only way to get a pass into Passbook, but it's likely that it's going to be the most common method utilized by companies. They can just as easily email you the .pkpass, or put up a link to it on their mobile site, and Passbook will accept it all the same.

You can also delete the apps you don't want once you've acquired the passes you want. No one said you had to keep them.

Exactly. That's why Safari and Mail can process .pkpass files.
Poor Apple did a bad job explaining this to the public. Only some seem to understand how it works.

 

[Razeus]

Passbook is a solution looking for a problem.

Any app that Passbook makes you download first can just be easily used as well.

Why use Passbook for a Starbucks gift card? I can just use the Starbucks app.

Why use Passbook for flight info when I can just use the airline's app?

Oh, but you'll say, that Passbook puts everything in one place and pops up info when you're in a certain area and is accessible from the lock screen. Well, apps should be able to do that in the first place, but in Apple's walled garden, that's not going to happen.

1) Perhaps, but I bought 2 movie tickets using Fandango, an updated app that lists Passbook integration as one of it's features, and you what happened? Nothing went to Passbook. I still had to show the movie cashier my credit card for him to pull the tickets anyway.

2) I've got a Target coupon loaded. The cashier couldn't scan it from my phone. Furthermore, the coupon seem to be only good at my "home" location by my house, not just any Target. So how is that convenient for me?

3) In order to get things to Passbook, I needed to download more apps that I'd never used before AND I had to register accounts with them. Target, Starbuck, Fandango, etc. Fandango is ok as I've been meaning to make an account with them anyway, but still, it's more accounts I need to keep up with. To top it off, I have to keep checking the apps or else it won't update! Again, not convenient. I'm a registered account, so you should be pushing deals to me via the app and sending it to Passbook automatically. I shouldn't have to load a gillion apps to do that.

But it's no loss right now. Apple launched a product with no support. Sure their graphic looks nice in the marketing presentation, but it's certainly not feasible. I can't see the average person having coupons, movie tickets, airline tickets, Starbucks cards, etc. loaded to Passbook all the time. Someone at Apple dropped the ball severely on this one. I think Forstall knew it wasn't ready, but of course, Apple is silent on the situation. Passbook is now on the back page with the rest of the Apple apps I can't delete.

With me not being able to upgrade to iPhone 5 this time around (thanks AT&T for changing your upgrade policies), AT&T's weak LTE network, and Apple's latest stance on shipping products that aren't finished (Passbook, iTunes Match, Maps, Siri, etc), it may be time to look at Google and Verizon.

 

[scrappledog]

Exactly -- Except unlike those cluttery third-party apps, you can't delete Passbook. It will sit there unused, taking up space on my screen. This is really poorly thought-out stuff from Apple. And you're right, to use it (if and when it works) you have to download more and more apps and sign up for each.

No thanks.

 

[matrix07]

Passbook is a solution looking for a problem.

Any app that Passbook makes you download first can just be easily used as well.

Why use Passbook for a Starbucks gift card? I can just use the Starbucks app.

Why use Passbook for flight info when I can just use the airline's app?

Oh, but you'll say, that Passbook puts everything in one place and pops up info when you're in a certain area and is accessible from the lock screen. Well, apps should be able to do that in the first place, but in Apple's walled garden, that's not going to happen.

1) Perhaps, but I bought 2 movie tickets using Fandango, an updated app that lists Passbook integration as one of it's features, and you what happened? Nothing went to Passbook. I still had to show the movie cashier my credit card for him to pull the tickets anyway.

2) I've got a Target coupon loaded. The cashier couldn't scan it from my phone. Furthermore, the coupon seem to be only good at my "home" location by my house, not just any Target. So how is that convenient for me?

3) In order to get things to Passbook, I needed to download more apps that I'd never used before AND I had to register accounts with them. Target, Starbuck, Fandango, etc. Fandango is ok as I've been meaning to make an account with them anyway, but still, it's more accounts I need to keep up with. To top it off, I have to keep checking the apps or else it won't update! Again, not convenient. I'm a registered account, so you should be pushing deals to me via the app and sending it to Passbook automatically. I shouldn't have to load a gillion apps to do that.

But it's no loss right now. Apple launched a product with no support. Sure their graphic looks nice in the marketing presentation, but it's certainly not feasible. I can't see the average person having coupons, movie tickets, airline tickets, Starbucks cards, etc. loaded to Passbook all the time. Someone at Apple dropped the ball severely on this one. I think Forstall knew it wasn't ready, but of course, Apple is silent on the situation. Passbook is now on the back page with the rest of the Apple apps I can't delete.

With me not being able to upgrade to iPhone 5 this time around (thanks AT&T for changing your upgrade policies), AT&T's weak LTE network, and Apple's latest stance on shipping products that aren't finished (Passbook, iTunes Match, Maps, Siri, etc), it may be time to look at Google and Verizon.

Why are you rambling about a thing you didn't use? Clearly you just put together all the complaints from other threads but making mistakes along the way like Target pass can not used at other locations. Why are you wasting your time like this?

 

[Razeus]

Why are you rambling about a thing you didn't use? Clearly you just put together all the complaints from other threads but making mistakes along the way like Target pass can not used at other locations. Why are you wasting your time like this?

Did you even read my thread? Stop reading the first 2 sentences and actually read, then comprehend what you just read. How could I just summarize other posts, yet make a few new user accounts for the apps Passbook requires? Please stop wasting your time like this, man. Surely there can't be that many under educated people on this site.

 

[jalman11]

I think...

I think Passbook is fantastic. I've already added my Rite Aid Wellness+ and Sbux card (via Passsource)... and the geolocating features of having the pass pop-up whenever I get near one and disapppearing when I move away from is awesomely fantastic.

(Quite frankly I'm sick of waiting 2 minutes for the Sbux application to load and then pull up my scan card, the passbook implementation of it is genius)

I think people just need to be patient, the app is awesome.

Many thanks!

 

[matrix07]

Did you even read my thread? Stop reading the first 2 sentences and actually read, then comprehend what you just read. How could I just summarize other posts, yet make a few new user accounts for the apps Passbook requires? Please stop wasting your time like this, man. Surely there can't be that many under educated people on this site.

Oohhh....the truth hit the spot, isn't it? How educated are your rambling..uh.. opinion? Those 3 points, do you want me to take it apart one by one?

 

[cynics]

Oohhh....the truth hit the spot, isn't it? How educated are your rambling..uh.. opinion? Those 3 points, do you want me to take it apart one by one?

Take it to private messaging. I'm actually interested in passbook not children bickering.....

 

[outphase]

I used Passbook for my Fandango tickets this weekend. A persistent notification was on my lock screen to allow me to pull up my movie ticket without needing to go into the Fandango app more than just the first time adding the ticket to Passbook. I like it so far.

 

[cynics]

So, I posted in another thread before, but basically Passbook requires one to acquire a bunch of other apps related to specific companies/services with which you wish to use Passbook ... how is this useful in any way?

A properly designed internal app that kept all your tickets, coupons, etc. would internally contain coding for all the companies that have agreed to associate with the Passbook service. So, for instance, I'd just open Passbook's camera, scan my Target gift card, and it would save (or accumulate into others I'd already scanned). Or, if I was purchasing a ticket online from a broker who had an agreement with Passbook, I'd simply enter the proper information and the ticket would appear in Passbook.

As it stands, you're telling me I have to download the Target app (just using one example), further cluttering my device, use that app to import a coupon/gift card and then from there associate it with Passbook? And for every other service I wish to use with Passbook -- another app, more clutter.

How is any of this saving any time? How is this useful?

I agree. I don't like constantly giving out my personal info, let alone to places like target or Walgreens.

I find airline tickets don't require any sort of sign in process/registration at least united airline (of course they already have my personal info). So if that's the only thing I'm going to do I might as well just use there app and not mess with passbook.

All I'm seeing is a way to avoid a queue every once and a while. Not worth giving up my personal data IMO. Almost seems like a way to get you to download some crappy apps.