It doesn't geofence. It checks your current location and checks it against the location of your saved Starbucks locations. If you're near one of them, then Passbook will prompt you to open it and display your Starbucks card.
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It doesn't geofence. It checks your current location and checks it against the location of your saved Starbucks locations. If you're near one of them, then Passbook will prompt you to open it and display your Starbucks card.
So, since my local maps and corespondng addresses are incorrect, it would never prompt me?
Are they incorrect in the Starbucks app? If I were Starbucks, I would pass coordinates of the saved stores to the pass and check location based on that instead of addresses.
I don't know about you, but the Starbucks app located all my frequented Starbucks locations correctly. However, I haven't driven out to all six saved locations just to test out the accuracy of the pass' stored locations.
Looks like us in the UK got the iOS compatibility in the update but no Passbook integration. I guess it's going to have to sit empty for another little while.
Lack of UK support is getting a bit silly, you'd think companies like Tesco, Boots, Superdrug would be quick to get on board.
Well one thing people are missing in all this is that not all scanners support barcode reading from a screen. I've tried my nectar card in a store card app and it just won't scan at Sainsburys.
So apart from requiring custom app development to participate in Apple's folly, retailers might still need to replace point of sale hardware too. NFC never looked more attractive.
So because of the trouble needing third parties to support it and needing vendors to have the right POS equipment, you think NFC is the answer? NFC has those issues and the problem of basically being a personal area network and requiring security development.
No.
I'm just pointing out that the need for POS equipment was one of the reasons many people rejected NFC as a solution in favour of Passbook. That reason was based on a fallacy.
The need for third party software support is a handicap for Passbook & Apple in that support for NFC once implemented is universal, for all users, platforms and vendors and conforms to an existing standard. Joe's grocery store is *never* going to pay to have their own app just so they can use Passbook (but they would have accepted an updated POS terminal when the time came for an upgrade).
Security is another non-issue bandied around. A local network? Sure, over all of a 1 inch range ! Current credit/debit cards already pose far more of a security issue, witness the countless stories of card fraud every year.
Looks like us in the UK got the iOS compatibility in the update but no Passbook integration. I guess it's going to have to sit empty for another little while.
They've said on twitter that passbook support in the UK is coming soon.
Right, I get that it checks your location, how else would it work?
What I'm asking is how often and when does it check location? Geofencing in the Reminders app checks satellite location every few minutes and are denoted by an empty location services icon in the status bar.
Some apps, like Dark Sky, use a less battery intensive cell tower triangulation that checks every 10-15min, and is signified by a solid location services icon, that looks the sames as the satellite GPS solid one (and is often mistaken for).
So, my question stands: how does Starbucks Passbook pass work?
Ok so I have passbook for my Walgreens card.... now when I open passbook all I see is the Walgreens card !!! I can't access the passbook store or see the original page that was there when i first used passbook....what gives?
I tried the advancing the date solution which didn't work.
Any ideas?
I tried the advancing the date solution which didn't work.
Any ideas?
Once you store a pass in passbook, you no longer have the option to go to App Store from passbook. But if you go into App Store from the native app, passbook apps is a featured (just scroll on the very top).
Hopefully Apple will eventually add a Passbook in the categories.
I have used the Walgreens and Starbucks Passbook options and both have worked like a charm. Both of them pop up when I set my preferences for my favorite or home stores. I am on Sprint and the 3G is a little spotty so I notice a lag sometimes in the GPS option but other than that when the signal kicks in the notice pops up on my lockscreen. I love the idea of Passbook and it has worked great so far. I think some people need to realize that the passes need to be generated by the third parties, not Apple. Now that being said, Apple could have let us know that it was up to these third parties so that the majority of people aren't passing blame on Apple.
It's a shame Lemon Wallet doesn't support Passbook, the layout is very similar.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/lemon-wallet/id458730692?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/lemon-wallet/id458730692?mt=8
Apple Gift Cards???
Is there no way to even get Apple's own Gift Cards into Passbook??? I have 4 or 5 gift cards from a recent birthday and was wanting to put them on my phone. I would've thought for sure that Apple would have their own stuff ready to work with Passbook.
Is there no way to even get Apple's own Gift Cards into Passbook??? I have 4 or 5 gift cards from a recent birthday and was wanting to put them on my phone. I would've thought for sure that Apple would have their own stuff ready to work with Passbook.
Looks like us in the UK got the iOS compatibility in the update but no Passbook integration. I guess it's going to have to sit empty for another little while.
Exciting news!
ODEON tweeted out earlier today:
Really happy ODEON is trying to integrate Passbook!
I've got mine all ready
Really happy ODEON is trying to integrate Passbook!
I've got mine all ready
Where is the code?
I'm with you on the newsstand & the stocks app but I feel like passbook could be useful, just give it time.
If they are gift cards, download the "Gyft" app, add your gift cards there, and from there you can add them to Passbook
I totally agree and they should have had the app available with the download bundle - it just makes no sense that they would miss out on such a huge opportunity.......