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Google Wallet users in the US are already receiving the new “Everything Else” feature. It will make it easier for them to carry digital versions of all their physical documents, including those not natively supported by the app. Google Wallet will also get native support for California ID cards soon.
“Everything Else” was spotted in mid-July as a new feature in development. However, it didn’t take long for the company to make it available to many. The first users began receiving the option in the US at the beginning of the month. Now, the company is rolling out “Everything Else” widely in the country.
Google Wallet’s “Everything Else” allows you to digitize all your physical documents
If you’re a regular Wallet user, you probably know that it doesn’t support some of your IDs or passports. Google is probably working on expanding compatibility with more documents in the future. However, in the meantime, “Everything else” lets you create a digital copy of all your IDs and physical documents to store them in Google Wallet. While digital cards aren’t a direct replacement for your physical documents, it can be nice to have them all on hand on certain occasions.
Like many recent features developed by Google, “Everything Else” takes advantage of the power of AI to scan your physical document and extract all relevant data fields. You can also add your own additional fields if you need to. The AI determines what type of document or pass you are scanning. If it detects a document with especially sensitive data (health or government ID information), it will label it as “Private.” Private documents do not sync across devices and require security verification to access. However, you can always manually tweak the classification later.
After scanning the document, you can manually choose which category it belongs to. The list of categories includes the following: “Business card, Car insurance, Driver’s license, Events & tickets, Health insurance, ID card, Library card, Loyalty card, Passport, Residence permit, Student ID, Tax ID card, Vehicle registration, Voter ID card, and Other.”
No ETA for a global rollout yet
After you complete the process, the digital document will be available with your other cards. Google Wallet also saves the photo of the original document along with the digital card. “Everything Else” replaces the “Photo” option in the Wallet UI. If you haven’t received it yet, you can try to force close the Wallet app to “speed up” the process. It is not yet known when the option will be available in the rest of the world.