Google Wallet would possibly make its personal Easter comeback

It’s the proper time in between the 2 Easter holidays (Orthodox Easter is that this Sunday!) to announce that Google Wallet has (in all probability) risen. According to famous code-sniffer Mishaal Rahman, Google Wallet is (in all probability) returning to Android. But you by no means know with this firm.

On April 18, Rahman tweeted a collection of screenshots exhibiting the brand new Wallet interface inside Google Play Services. The photographs point out the Wallet moniker is again, full with a brand new icon exhibiting what appears like the kind of pockets clip you’d stow in your again pocket. (I hate to say it resembles the Apple Wallet icon however in Google’s major colours.) The new icon leaked final week when Google up to date its Workspace belongings.

The Wallet interface appears extra tuned to splaying out your debit and bank cards and every little thing in between relatively than managing your fee historical past and financial institution transactions, as Google Pay does now. The screenshots additionally present an identical itemizing of membership and loyalty playing cards, transit passes, and airplane tickets. However, you possibly can entry all of these now by way of the fee display screen in Google Pay after getting into your safety credentials.

It looks like that is merely a take a look at a newly organized interface relatively than a completely completely different service, since Google did a lot work over the previous few years to consolidate wallet-like skills into what’s now often called Google Pay.

But it’s nonetheless a little bit complicated to see these photographs come by way of. As a long-time person of Google’s apps and providers, it usually appears the corporate will make a massive to-do about introducing new options after which change programs seemingly on the drop of a hat. I hope these Wallet screenshots aren’t a touch at one thing fully new on the horizon, as I’ve already migrated each account and membership into Google Pay as my major approach of paying with a smartphone.

It’s a surprise if Google will reintroduce Wallet prefer it by no means existed earlier than, contemplating that’s what it was on Android earlier than the rebrand in 2020. (Although, there was additionally that stint when it was Android Pay? It has modified names so many occasions all through Android’s quick lifespan.) Anyway, it might be good to not stroll in fixed confusion about methods to do contactless funds from my Android machine, lest I quit and revert totally to Samsung Pay from right here on out.