Apple is finally letting you create custom passes directly in the Wallet app, according to a report. You don’t have to wait for a venue to support it or find a third-party link anymore, you can just build the pass yourself from scratch.
The feature is called “Create a Pass,” and it’s heading to iOS 27 later this year. Think about every card stuffed in your physical wallet that your phone has completely ignored for years.
Gym membership. Punch card from your favorite coffee shop. That weird little loyalty card from the car wash. All of those have been living in a blind spot that the Wallet app never bothered to address.
How Does It Actually Work?
You tap the plus button in Wallet, and if your ticket or pass has a QR code, you scan it, and you’re done.
If there’s no QR code at all, you go the manual route and build a custom pass from the ground up. You can swap out colors, upload images, edit the text, and choose a category.
Apple is using purple for event tickets, blue for memberships, and orange as a catch-all for everything else.
Internal code reveals that this covers everything from tickets and memberships to gift cards. It looks like a surprisingly comprehensive feature.
Why This Actually Matters More Than It Sounds
Third-party apps have been filling this gap for years. Pass2U is probably the most well-known, and it works, but it’s clunky and feels like a workaround because it is one.
Apple quietly let that problem sit there while a cottage industry of pass-management apps grew up around it. Now those apps are effectively obsolete.
The real shift here is that Wallet no longer has to be a place that only works when a business decides to support it.
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A small yoga studio with no Apple Wallet integration? You can still make a pass for your membership card. A local movie theater handing out paper tickets? Scan it, digitize it, done.
iOS 27 gets its official debut at Apple’s WWDC event on June 8, where we’ll likely see a full rundown of everything coming in the update.
But if you’ve ever looked at your Wallet app and thought it should do more with the physical cards you already carry, that frustration is finally getting addressed.
