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Is there a way to stop Apple Wallet from opening automatically when near a paying terminal.

I wouldn’t mind it, but i have to give my phone to a bus driver so he could read my bus ticket’s QR code. As the payment terminal is situated near to the QR-code reader device on the same console, sometimes it takes 10 or even 20 seconds to get it done. It is annoying to the driver and to the passengers, too. Please help.

iPhone SE, iOS 16

Posted on Jul 27, 2023 1:49 AM

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Posted on Jun 4, 2024 6:20 AM

That doesn’t work, even when that button is on, cards still kick in when the phone gets close to a paying terminal. The only thing that having on such button prevents is that no charge is done to the card until you press double click. But still the card appears and overrides the photo app where the QR code is. This is a serious design flaw.

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Aug 27, 2024 8:11 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Then, why do you have such a big trouble to understand the problem here?


What do you do with the QR code that Carlson has sent you in an email, and you get to the access barrier with your phone showing that QR code, and the reader can’t read the QR code because Apple Wallet pops up showing your credit card and the QR code disappears from the screen.


What is then your solution? And don’t tell me “print it on paper”, for god’s sake

Aug 27, 2024 8:31 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

>>It has never happened to me<<


Probably because for starters you were replaying to a post that wasn’t addressed to you.


And then because you haven’t traveled recently in France, Belgium, or in Netherlands, where this is an issue with the machines they use in the entry barriers, which read both QR and NFC. You are extrapolating your own context to the rest of the world. It doesn’t work like that

Aug 27, 2024 9:39 AM in response to Jeff Donald

Why exactly does not make sense?


I have used American Express and they don’t send a link; they send an email with a QR code that you use to access the train platforms. So it doesn’t work flawlessly.


And no, scanning the QR code with the IPhone Camera app doesn’t do anything, so there’s no way to convert that QR code into an Apple Wallet travel pass.


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Aug 27, 2024 8:55 AM in response to Jeff Donald

>>In the US they do send links or QR codes for boarding passes. What country are you in? What transit company does this involve?<<


In Europe, American Express sends emails with a QR code within, which is a .jpg file attached. And in the Netherlands and Belgium that’s what you get, you don’t get that QR in the format of a travel pass. As I said and would like to emphasise, you just get a .jpg file within an email. And that code cannot be converted to a travel pass, or at least I don’t know how. If you know a way, I’d be happy to hear it, as I wouldn’t care anymore about Wallet popping up.

Aug 27, 2024 9:29 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

>>You've been given the answer to that. You've also been given a possible workaround: add the QR code to your wallet. Asking the same question over and over again and expecting a different answer is the definition of...something<<


What possible turnaround? How can you add a QR code to the wallet, if that QR code is not given to you in a pkpass format, but in jpg? Did you get, that you don’t get the QR code in pkpass format? So what turnaround are you talking about? Any useful ideas, by any chance?


That something is also well shown by not understanding what’s being asked. Nobody is asking Apple to do anything. And if you don’t know a turnaround that doesn’t mean that someone else does, don’t you think?


Is there a way to stop Apple Wallet from opening automatically when near a paying terminal.

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