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#2820105 27-Nov-2021 08:33

IS there anyway one can use the pass in google wallet WITHOUT having a pincode etc to unlock the android phone?

- My 70yo mother decided it was time to get a "smart phone" recently. We have set her up without pin code. She only uses the phone to scan into places, receive whatsapp calls and if required dial out if she ever needs to (but hardly needs to).

I guess she could get used to pincode but I can see it will be a PIA for her whilst shes grappling to deal with the complexities of mastering the basics that us younger folk take for granted.

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#2820108 27-Nov-2021 08:40

MikeAqua:

Boarding planes is going to be interesting ... double the time to scan on, maybe triple as people have to switch apps then switch back to the boarding pass at the plane to show the cabin crew.

As far as I’m aware, Air New Zealand are going to allow you to link your vax cert into their App. So it will be like Gyms are doing, where you’ll need to verify it once and the it will be linked to your ‘membership’. Not sure if it will transfer to international flying though. But then that’s a different cert anyway.

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#2820128 27-Nov-2021 09:32

Goosey:

IS there anyway one can use the pass in google wallet WITHOUT having a pincode etc to unlock the android phone?

- My 70yo mother decided it was time to get a "smart phone" recently. We have set her up without pin code. She only uses the phone to scan into places, receive whatsapp calls and if required dial out if she ever needs to (but hardly needs to).

I guess she could get used to pincode but I can see it will be a PIA for her whilst shes grappling to deal with the complexities of mastering the basics that us younger folk take for granted.

Take a screenshot into her photo gallery and have it on her homepage as a shortcut perhaps? AFAIK the wallet requires a security method.

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#2820151 27-Nov-2021 09:56

Goosey:

IS there anyway one can use the pass in google wallet WITHOUT having a pincode etc to unlock the android phone?

- My 70yo mother decided it was time to get a "smart phone" recently. We have set her up without pin code. She only uses the phone to scan into places, receive whatsapp calls and if required dial out if she ever needs to (but hardly needs to).

I guess she could get used to pincode but I can see it will be a PIA for her whilst shes grappling to deal with the complexities of mastering the basics that us younger folk take for granted.

The best option I know of to avoid having to use a pin code everytime you use your phone is to use an app like Stocard and put the Covid Pass in there.

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#2820153 27-Nov-2021 09:58

I'm not familiar with Android, but is it possible to configure a PIN but set it to only prompt for it once a day or similar?

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#2820160 27-Nov-2021 10:11

Not as far as I know. Once you activate Google Pay you have to have some form of security to unlock the phone, which is understandable but even so you'd think it could be set up in such a way that the PIN or what ever you use is only required to access Google Pay but as far as I can tell this isn't an option.

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#2820189 27-Nov-2021 11:23

My only phone is a work supplied iphone7 with latest iOS version.

I don't use a PIN or face recognition, so the phone opens as soon as I touch the home button.

I don't need, or want, to add my personal credit card to apple wallet.

My Covid certificate is loaded into wallet, but when I open wallet the top half of the screen shows a window to add a credit card. The bottom half of the screen shows the top part of my certificate. I can scroll down to show the rest of the certificate, but it drops down again as soon as I stop scrolling.

Is there a way to get the full certificate to display correctly?

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#2820190 27-Nov-2021 11:28

I do have a credit card in mine so I'm not sure exactly how it's supposed to work when you don't have one, but don't scroll. Just tap the top of the vaccine pass and it should pop into view.

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#2820196 27-Nov-2021 11:44

DOH!

Thanks Behodar, so simple to fix.

Cheers.

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#2820411 28-Nov-2021 08:06

Behodar:

I tried to help my dad set this up over the weekend and while everything appeared to work as normal (it asked him to confirm he wanted to add it, asked for his PIN, etc.) the actual QR code just came up as a blank square. There were also some 'placeholders' that looked like they should contain name/DOB (assuming it works like the iOS one) but they were also blank. Has anyone run into that?

Solved. Google Pay wasn't installed. You'd think it wouldn't let you create a non-working home screen link in the first place if you don't have it...

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#2820440 28-Nov-2021 09:56

MikeB4:

Any Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 users managed to get the Pass to load into Google Pay on the Watch?

I couldn’t get this to work on my GW4 with Google Pay, so I came up with a work around.

I cropped the pdf of the certificate, saved as a png and transferred it to the gallery on my GW4.

I have it set up so a double tap on the home button opens the gallery app and since there is only the one file in it, it opens the certificate.

Scans okay when I zoom the image so the QR fills at least half the screen when I tested it with the verifier app my ZFold3. I have it zoomed so the QR fills the whole screen and can just roll it down if people want to compare to Name and DoB on another document.

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#2820649 28-Nov-2021 16:38

Anyone here having problems with Samsung phone retaining the Vax pass to stay on their home screen?? My wife and I have new Galaxy 52s 5G phones and the passport is in Google Pay and I can add it to the home screen but next day it is gone and you have to put it back again and so on. Consumer NZ had a article about setting this up and several people there have had the same problem.

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#2820650 28-Nov-2021 16:47

I have the same problem on my Samsung Z Fold 3, but I haven't tried to do anything about it yet.

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#2820651 28-Nov-2021 16:53

Goosey:

IS there anyway one can use the pass in google wallet WITHOUT having a pincode etc to unlock the android phone?

- My 70yo mother decided it was time to get a "smart phone" recently. We have set her up without pin code. She only uses the phone to scan into places, receive whatsapp calls and if required dial out if she ever needs to (but hardly needs to).

I guess she could get used to pincode but I can see it will be a PIA for her whilst shes grappling to deal with the complexities of mastering the basics that us younger folk take for granted.

Pattern works.

Just sorted it with my dad.

Just pick something easy like a seven shape or up and down

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#2820709 28-Nov-2021 18:08

old3eyes:
Anyone here having problems with Samsung phone retaining the Vax pass to stay on their home screen?? My wife and I have new Galaxy 52s 5G phones and the passport is in Google Pay and I can add it to the home screen but next day it is gone and you have to put it back again and so on. Consumer NZ had a article about setting this up and several people there have had the same problem.

Yeah it happened on my phone. Firmly believe it is related to having Smart Unlock function activated on phone. It is activated on my phone and shortcut to pass keep disappearing. My wife has same model phone but doesn't use Smart Unlock and her pass is still on home screen.

The workaround is to put shortcut to Google Pay app on home screen.

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