I have a Walgreens reward card.  It used to show up when I was in the store
automatically.  Now I have to bring it up.  Does that have something to do
with Pass Book, and should I be able to do something about that? 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 6:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: A Virtual Reward Card On Your iPhone 6 Plus, Be Careful Who You
Hand It To

I recently read somewhere that in one of the upcoming iOS versions the
Passbook app will be improved to offer such functionality. I think
ultimately we may look forward to when the Passbook app knows that you are
in a particular store and where your rewards card is displayed right on the
lockscreen so you can show it without even having to unlock your phone. This
is how electronic boarding passes work now, if I add a flight to the Air
Canada app I can check in for that flight 24 hours before and once I am done
I have the option to add the boarding app to Passbook. Once I do that, the
boarding pass is on my lock screen just like a notification and I can double
tap on it to display it including the barcode which gets scanned at the
security gate.


Regards,
Sieghard

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 9:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A Virtual Reward Card On Your iPhone 6 Plus, Be Careful Who You
Hand It To

While this is concerning, I would be more interested to know if the virtual
apps that store reward cards are even accessible to blind/low vision users.
And if so, then how do you transfer your reward cards from the individual
apps to the one that stores them all? Finally, anyone know of such an app to
sore reward cards?

I realize that this thought is after the fact and may not help Mark, but
this is a good reason for having a case on your phone. Granted, the employee
shouldn't have dropped the phone in the first place, but accidents happen.

Wayne

On 2/21/15, Chris Chaffin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I could be wrong, but isn't the device the clerk uses to scan your 
> rewards card on a cord?  Could you not just hold your phone out toward 
> the clerk face up and they scan the screen of the phone that way?
> Like everybody else, I would be a little nervous just handing over my
phone.
>  The way I do it now is, I just give the clerk my phone number and 
> they pull up my rewards information that way.  To me, that is easy short
and sweet!
>
> Chris
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Feb 21, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I thought I'd heard that there are kiosks you can use to bump your 
>> phone against, similar to using AirDrop? I don't think I'd be 
>> comfortable handing the device to someone, but I have to think that 
>> eventually things will be set up so you can use a device and do it
yourself.
>>
>> Teresa
>>
>> "We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and 
>> seeing with the brain is often called imagination."--Oliver Sacks
>>
>>> On Feb 21, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing this. If using apple Pay or any of these 
>>> smartphone payment options that are looming ever closer require me 
>>> to pass my device to someone else, I'm not sure I'll ever use them. 
>>> My electronics last a long time because I'm the one in control of 
>>> them. There are just too many butterfingers in the world.
>>>
>>> Alan Lemly
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Feb 21, 2015, at 2:17 AM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> I am absolutely in love with the Passbook App and Apple Pay feature 
>>>> on my iPhone 6 Plus.
>>>>
>>>> The number of brick & mortar stores in my area that accept Apple 
>>>> Pay transactions via the NFC protocol is relatively high.  As a 
>>>> result, I find myself using my iPhone to make purchases at least 
>>>> once a week, sometimes even more.
>>>>
>>>> The one thing I would like to see added to the Passbook app is the 
>>>> ability to quickly and easily add store reward cards without first 
>>>> having to install a store-specific app.
>>>>
>>>> Now I am well aware of the fact that there are a growing number of 
>>>> third-party apps and websites that will facilitate the creation of 
>>>> a passbook pass, however, given the recent data security breeches 
>>>> across the web, I am reluctant to give out any private purchasing 
>>>> information to third-party, and as far as I am concerned, unvetted 
>>>> entities.
>>>>
>>>> Given my recent success with Passbook, I have been considering 
>>>> virtualizing all of my store-specific reward cards by installing an 
>>>> app such as KeyRing or Stocards.
>>>>
>>>> Using such an app would allow me to quickly display the virtual 
>>>> card on my phone's display allowing it to be scanned at the time of 
>>>> purchase.
>>>>
>>>> I was planning on downloading a few such apps this evening when, 
>>>> earlier today, while in a brick & mortar store, I witnessed a 
>>>> customer hand her iPhone 6 Plus, with a virtual reward card 
>>>> displayed on the screen, to a store employee in order for the 
>>>> employee to scan the bar code.
>>>>
>>>> To everyone's surprise, the employee dropped the iPhone.  Because 
>>>> of a convergence of circumstances, the phone landed on the floor.  Not
good.
>>>> The
>>>> customer was, to put it mildly, furious.
>>>>
>>>> After having seen this, I'm not certain if I want to use virtual 
>>>> store reward cards if doing so means that I must first hand my 
>>>> device to a store employee.
>>>>
>>>> A virtual reward card on your iPhone 6 Plus, be careful who you 
>>>> hand it to.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
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