Samsung Wallet: The digital wallet returns
Samsung cleans up its apps and merges its own Pay and Pass apps into the new Wallet app. A digital wallet for keys, credit cards, IDs and more.
Samsung Wallet already existed as an app. However, the company transformed it into Samsung Pay in 2015. Now the digital wallet returns with more features. The integration of Samsung Pass adds a password manager to the digital wallet, for example.
Everything that fits in the wallet
Roughly speaking, except for cash, you can digitally store everything in Samsung's Wallet that can be found in a wallet - and more. Credit cards and other cards, for example from bonus point systems, are more or less the basic function of the Wallet app. Samsung is now adding car keys from certain BMW, Genesis and Hyundai models as well as boarding passes from Korean Air. Hopefully, more airlines and car manufacturers will follow over time.
Then there's the integration of SmartThings, Samsung's smarthome system. The Wallet app is now the way to open and lock doors with digital keys. If you use cryptocurrencies, you can keep track of them with the Samsung Blockchain Wallet.
Later this year, ID cards in Wallet are to follow. Samsung cites driver's licenses and student IDs. However, availability will depend heavily on local laws.
Private and confidential data is supposed to be secure in Wallet. The in-house security platform Samsung Knox takes over the protection. The data requires further release by the user before decryption - for example, via the fingerprint sensor.
Launch in six countries
Initially, the new Samsung Wallet will only be available in six countries: Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is enough to launch Samsung Pay or Samsung Pass and follow the request for an update to unite the apps in Samsung Wallet.
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