Google Wallet is coming back as a standalone feature. Wallet will be the place to store digital versions of cards and other personal documents, while Google Pay will remain the place for contactless payments. Wallet will store payment cards, transit passes, memberships, tickets, airline travel information and vaccine passports. Google will start rolling out the new Wallet to Android and WearOS devices in the coming weeks.
Google has plans to add digital IDs and driver’s licenses to Wallet later this year.
Since going live in 2011, Google Wallet acted as a storage space for digital cards and as a hub for sending and requesting money. Google essentially killed Wallet in 2018 when it consolidated its digital payment services under one app, Google Pay. The company revamped Google Pay in late 2020 as it attempted to compete more directly with services like Venmo, but there was no word about a separate Wallet at the time.
Rumors about a revamped Wallet dropped in April, complete with screenshots of the new interface.
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