iOS 17 drops the card limit in Wallet

There is a change under the hood of Cartes. Although the app didn’t receive any glaring new features with iOS 17, specialist Joel Breckinridge Bassett did. comment Some changes that outline Apple’s plan for the coming years.

iOS 17 is not compatible with iPhone models released before iPhone XS and XR. In doing so, Apple eliminated older phones from the equation that did not have a small power reserve that would allow certain functions to be activated even when the device had no battery. Among other things, it offers to locate your smartphone, even when it is turned off, or use a transport ticket with Transport Express.

Even if it’s flat, your iPhone has a small reserve of power to help you out

The appearance of this reserve is due to the arrival of a slide Safe item Jill in the iPhone XS luggage. If the original chip has been available on the iPhone since iPhone 6 (for Apple Pay), the new version brings that power reserve. This is an important point: the advance allows Apple Pay transactions to be managed completely independently of iOS.

Since the entire fleet of iOS 17 devices will have this reserve, Apple can pave the way for the future. In particular, it dropped the limit of cards that can be added to the Wallet app. Where previously we were limited to a dozen or so cards, now the only limit is the memory of the Secure Element chip: some users have already managed to add over 40 cards!

If this very limited storage isn’t immediately available for your iPhone, it should be later. Apple has great ambitions for cards, which in the long term should focus on bank cards, house keys, car keys, student cards, transportation cards, hotel rooms, as well as ID cards, passes … New products such as Tap to Pay or Click to submit ID They will also need space on the chip.

In the US, the iPhone will soon be able to act as a TPE thanks to Tap to Pay 🆕

Click to submit the ID is a file heresy iOS 17 that will let you quickly present your ID. Companies will be able to verify a customer’s age through a process similar to Tap to Pay by holding two iPhones close together. The popup will indicate what information the merchant is about to receive and whether it will be retained. You’ll need to be identified with Face ID to complete the “transaction”, and it’s possible to only ask for certain items (eg just age without getting a full name).

Little by little, Apple is improving the functionality of Maps to make it essential. At first, you can only add your ID to present at certain airport desks. With iOS 16, Apple added the ability to Submit it in the app in order to share certain data. With Tap to Present ID, the iPhone can be used as a payment device and age verification, which will undoubtedly be very practical for alcohol and tobacco sellers or managers of other events and nightclubs. All of this is currently reserved for a handful of states in the US and may never see the light of day in France, but it shows how Apple is trying to paint a bigger picture.

Could this greater support for the Secure Element chip be linked to a possible opening of the iPhone’s NFC chip? Apple is under investigation in the European Union for possible abuse of a dominant position with Apple Pay: the charges revolve around restrictions Cupertino placed on its phone’s NFC chip, which only Apple Pay might exploit. However, the iPhone now has a Secure Element chip that can be managed without iOS supervision, which could make life easier for third-party services.