Has anyone seen an Airtag wallet yet? Seems like a good idea. I keep an extremely minimal wallet, but wouldn't mind one a bit thicker to throw in an Airtag.
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Airtag wallet yet?
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Tile Slim is exactly what you are describing. Have to wait for Apple Airtag Card or AirCard.
Except that it isn’t accepted everywhere, and I need my drivers license with me, and not all of my cards work with Apple Pay.
I hate carrying a wallet, I really do. But until I can legally keep my drivers license digitally on my phone (at the very least) this isn’t feasible for me.
Perhaps just stick in the existing wallet for that condom circle in the back pocket look. 
I live in a very highly populated area near Chicago, and you still can't get by without taking a wallet with you. All the big chains and some of the more tech savvy small businesses take Apple Pay, but there are still far more businesses that don't. And what if I need my driver's license, insurance cards, etc. for some reason? Those have Apple Wallet compatibility, but it doesn't display all the information I need when I need to pull the card up due to privacy issues.
So yeah, here on planet earth, I do need my wallet when I go out. What I DON'T always need when I go out is my iPhone. My cellular Apple Watch steps in just fine for that purpose. Smartphones are so 20th century.
Apple pay doesn't work as a form of identification, I also need to carry other cards like medical cards. Yes we are in the 21st century, and the need to carry cards is still a requirement for many of us
Can you explain how you’ve been using ApplePay in, say, a restaurant at which the server runs your card? Or at a gas pump or other POS location which isn‘t equipped for NFC transactions?
Or how you provide ID with ApplePay?
If that's how it works in your country then yes, you need to carry a wallet.
As has been said many times in this thread, in the UK, it's not a requirement for us to carry our driving license and I don't know anyone who's ever been asked for their 'registration' during a stop. I don't even carry insurance documentation in the car with me.
To give you an idea how widespread contactless payments are - I've not used cash anywhere for well over a year and although I have a couple of tenners in my wallet, they've been there for a long time.
Having said that, I'm old school and wouldn't go anywhere without my wallet so if I could buy a proper leather wallet with a proper cutout to hold an AirTag, I'd happily do so.
Of course this one turned into a US vs. Other countries war. Well, I guess I will post my personal experience.
Almost everywhere I go now has Apple Pay. The layman doesn't know what to look for, but having worked in the industry I do. I even see people inserting Apple Cards into chip readers, that have Apple Pay on them. To be frank, this just means that John Q. Public can't comprehend with all of this "new tech"
I don't carry a wallet. On days I do, I carry a very slim one, that holds two cards, an Apple Card, and an ID. My state is one of the few with a mobile app that can replace your ID, called Arizona Mobile ID. I have used this ID during traffic stops, and to pick up pre-paid items from the Apple Store without any issue. You don't have to hand your phone to the cop, they just write the ID number off of the app and go run whatever they need in their car. If you really are afraid this is going to happen anyway, just turn on Guided Access, and triple click the side button 3 times to "lock" the phone to the driver license app.
My car has an app that I can just use to unlock the door, so I don't carry any keys either. I do have an AirTag on the car key on days I choose to use the key. I enter my home through my garage door, which I just use a HomeKit widget in control center to open if I am taking the bus, or the button that is already in the car if I am driving. If my phone dies, I have a backup way to get into my car, so I am not worried about that either. Same for the garage door, where I can just type in a PIN on the wall to open it as a backup.
The key here is choice. You choose how you want to live your life, I choose to live mine "on my iPhone" and Apple Watch.
And yes you can get by with just your Apple Pay in most cases, without having to worry about physical cards. In fact, a lot of restaurants I frequent, I just walk up to the server station to use Apple Pay and no one really had an issue with it at all, unless I know the place doesn't have Apple Pay at all, for which I plan for those days, and I can take my wallet with me. I don't go to sit-down restaurants on a whim, so its a non issue. and every fast food place but Wendys has Apple Pay.
Almost everywhere I go now has Apple Pay. The layman doesn't know what to look for, but having worked in the industry I do. I even see people inserting Apple Cards into chip readers, that have Apple Pay on them. To be frank, this just means that John Q. Public can't comprehend with all of this "new tech"
I don't carry a wallet. On days I do, I carry a very slim one, that holds two cards, an Apple Card, and an ID. My state is one of the few with a mobile app that can replace your ID, called Arizona Mobile ID. I have used this ID during traffic stops, and to pick up pre-paid items from the Apple Store without any issue. You don't have to hand your phone to the cop, they just write the ID number off of the app and go run whatever they need in their car. If you really are afraid this is going to happen anyway, just turn on Guided Access, and triple click the side button 3 times to "lock" the phone to the driver license app.
My car has an app that I can just use to unlock the door, so I don't carry any keys either. I do have an AirTag on the car key on days I choose to use the key. I enter my home through my garage door, which I just use a HomeKit widget in control center to open if I am taking the bus, or the button that is already in the car if I am driving. If my phone dies, I have a backup way to get into my car, so I am not worried about that either. Same for the garage door, where I can just type in a PIN on the wall to open it as a backup.
The key here is choice. You choose how you want to live your life, I choose to live mine "on my iPhone" and Apple Watch.
And yes you can get by with just your Apple Pay in most cases, without having to worry about physical cards. In fact, a lot of restaurants I frequent, I just walk up to the server station to use Apple Pay and no one really had an issue with it at all, unless I know the place doesn't have Apple Pay at all, for which I plan for those days, and I can take my wallet with me. I don't go to sit-down restaurants on a whim, so its a non issue. and every fast food place but Wendys has Apple Pay.
I am a boomer, geezer, old fart. Yes I use the Wallet and have one. I have to show the damn insurance cards, I would think they would keep it on file. OH and now my covid card I have to carry. Are there any apps that would scan those document, I then could flash them and be happy? OK, I did carry a spare key in my wallet, before going to a pushbutton entrance, but still... there are times I would rather pay with cash than Apple pay. I have to show my drivers license, we haven't gone to using the app for that yet here in the boonies. Also that I have my funeral arranged card.
Now get off my lawn.
I would hope that someone will make a wallet with Findmy built in, so we don't have to use an airtag or cram that in a wallet. Or maybe a magsafe holder for the airtag to slap on the back of the apple leather wallet?
The correct answer is don't carry a wallet around, that is so 20th century. Use Apple pay.
Ditto.
As for an Airtag specific wallet, the unused condom I've had in my wallet since 1995 has made a perfect indentation in the leather that should hold the airtag perfectly. 🤣
Yep, in the UK many places don't like to accept cash now. Hell even street vendors these days have contactless payment devices to buy your latte with. Most days I don't take my wallet. No requirement to carry proof of ID in the UK. I have a scanned copy of my passport and driving licence in 1Password on my phone just in case.
Contactless is offered just about everywhere in the UK, not all locations have ApplePay (limitless) but the contactless limit got raised to £45, and is due to go up to £100 before the end of the year. Contactless is supported with ApplePay, meaning any vendor that has contactless payments you can pay for anything up to £45, more and more locations support limitless ApplePay.
I have two £10 notes that have been in my wallet for around 3 months now, I just use my watch to pay for just about everything.
I just put a tag in the wallet itself , down inside one of the corners and it works fine so far.
It looks like forum member ghsNick got a wallet designed.
The Snapback Slim Air is the AirTag wallet Apple should have made
The Snapback Slim Air is a slim wallet that has a space for an AirTag. That's probably where the name came from.
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Yeah because you don’t need ID, right? Apple Wallet travel passes aren’t accepted everywhere. Be serious.
Should be fairly simple taking an AirTag apart and making it slim enough to fit in a wallet. Doesn’t need to be water resistant so just remove all the plastic and metal, wire up the battery, tape the thing and put it in your wallet.
Pretty sure there will soon be a bunch of video’s/pictures all over the internet on how to take it apart...
Pretty sure there will soon be a bunch of video’s/pictures all over the internet on how to take it apart...
Restaurant - I use Apple Pay on their contactless equipped card machines.
Fuel Station - I use Apple Pay on their contactless equipped card machine.
ID - I’m not legally required to carry ID. If stopped while driving by the police we have 7 days to take documents to a Police Station if they’re not with us.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere that does not accept contactless cards and therefore Apple Pay.
No.
All transactions are either Contactless for low value, Apple pay(mobile payments), or with your pin number via chip and pin.
Places here often do not accept you signing for payment. If cards are used fraudulently using one of the above methods the bank takes liability as their system was used to verify the transaction and reimburses the retailer.
If a payment is made by signature that is verified by the retailer and thus have little protection if it’s a stolen card or fraud transaction.
With regards to ID. We have no legal requirement to carry ID, even when driving. If stopped and we do not have insurance, driving license and MOT. We have 7 days to take them to a Police Station.
Hotel Room - No
Flying we don’t often do internally. Not much point when. 4 hours gets you north to south on a train. But youre likely to be carrying much more info.
Renting a card just need drivers license. But those 2 are not everyday occurrences.
FWIW; I do carry a wallet with my license and bank cards every day, and intend on just putting am airtag in the coin pocket. I’m just saying that it’s possible to go about everyday life 11 months of the year without needing to carry a wallet in the UK
Oh, but what about this goofy "REAL ID?" 🙄 Thankfully this will not be required - especially to fly in US until 2023 now...delayed again. (Personally I think this Real ID is a total crock!)
In other countries like the UK and most of Europe, *every* restaurant accepts apple pay. Also in the UK there is only one type of business I can think of that doesn’t accept any form of card payment - including apple pay - certain small barber shops. If cards are accepted, then apple pay is accepted. Which is pretty much everywhere. That includes hotels as well.