Google Wallet is Adding Support for “Everything Else”

With the world going fully digital, Google is adapting its Wallet app for Android to become the focal point for this shift on your smartphone: In addition to storing credit and debit cards, transit passes, loyalty cards, and gift cards, it now offers a more formal way to store, well, everything else. It’s called … Everything else.

This feature was announced at Google IO 2024 back in May, but it was somewhat lost in the blizzard of announcements the company made at the time. I also assumed it was an Android 15 feature–Google will likely announce the release of that OS during today’s Pixel event–but it’s apparently rolling out now on Pixel devices running Android 14 (and possibly other versions) in the United States. I assume it will show up on Samsung and other Android-based phones soon as well, as in other countries.

I’m not seeing it on my Pixel 8 Pro yet, but “Everything else” will replace “Photo” in the list of things you can add to Wallet in the app. The “Photo” feature let you create a digital pass using a photo or screenshot of an item that included a barcode or QR code. But “Everything else” goes much further. It lets you “scan a photo of any pass, like an event ticket, gym membership, insurance card, and more,” creating a “digital version that appears in Google Wallet.” The app uses AI–of course it does–to “determine what kind of pass you’re adding and suggest the content of the pass.”

Google Wallet will automatically classify items with private information–driver’s licenses and other government IDs, health and medical cards, and so on–as private, it won’t sync them to other devices, and it will require authentication before opening them. (You can configure this per-item.) It offers a long list of item types–business card, car insurance, driver’s license, library card, and so on–and you can add your own. And each type has a long list of fields, which you can likewise edit and add to.

These items will be added to Wallet’s carousel of cards, and you can view the original scan in addition to the digital information as needed.

You can learn more about Google Wallet on the Google Wallet Help site on Google Support.