Thanks for sharing! I knew giving info to 3rd party site was risky but if it doesn’t even work, then it’s simply not worth it.
This worked for me too. Just scan the QR code with the regular camera app and you can add the card to the heath app.
Yes, it does, though you need to resort to a workaround. Health doesn't work with European certificates, because our QR codes seem to use a different encoding, but I've found a European web site that can do that.
European certificates do not work with the Health app, but there's a workaround. See my reply above. It worked perfectly with my Romanian pass. I'm sure Bulgarian ones will work as well.
So, it's the responsibility of those businesses, airlines, and government agencies to check whether the QR code I'm showing them on my phone is genuine. It's not Apple's responsibility to do that. I just want to store a QR code in my wallet, just to have it at hand. That's all. It doesn't even matter what that QR code happens to mean. Why should Apple care what exactly I'm storing, or whether it's correct or not?
That's not what was being said. What was said is that there is a specific approved standard that has been developed and accepted for use. Not everyone is using that same standard yet. Apple is simply not allowing anything except that standard to be used in "Health" on the iPhone. Apple is not stopping you from taking a picture/scan of anything you want and use it as "proof" of your vaccination. You just can't put it in the Health App.
Yes, but that QR code has no meaning or value until someone scans it with an officially approved app, which checks its validity. The simple fact that Apple allows it into the Health app doesn't give it any value. The airline will still scan the code and check it. They won't say: "oh, I see it's in the Health app, so it must be OK".
Frankly, I fail to see the point. Let's say we're both at the airport, and the airline won't let us board the plane unless we're vaccinated. You show them your QR code in your Apple wallet, scanned with the Health app. I show them a picture of my QR code in Photos. The airline official will scan both codes using a government-approved app, which will tell them whether they are genuine.
Sure, but it's not quite the same thing.
What you may not be considering is that Apple does have to work with government regulators when it comes to data that can be added to the Health app or to Wallet for vaccine verification purposes — it is entirely possible that they aren't allowed to permit users to add any non-verifiable QR codes into Wallet or Health. Or, perhaps they've simply chosen not to do so, and no amount of ranting on a user-operated forum is going to change that — you're better off submitting feedback directly to Apple and seeing how (or if) they respond.
I got my first two pfizer shots at a Florida state run facility which ONLY provided the white hand-written cards as "proof" of the vaccination.
Doubt that they will do so. I got my first 2 at my local state health department location. Booster was at Walgreen in the same State. They said that since they did not give the vaccine the first 2 times they could not make any record of it. Only logged in on my paper card.
Thanks, I was wondering if I was doing anything wrong. I had my initial vaccines through a convention center location, but showed up in the MyChart app, and I was able to add it there.
There doesn't seem to be any limitation in either Health or Wallet on booster shots — I got my booster a few weeks ago and all three doses show up on my Wallet card.
