How to Turn Any Card Into a Wallet Pass in iOS 27

Cards without a barcode can still become passes, entered by hand instead.

Moses Johnson
By Moses Johnson - Senior Staff Writer, Help & How To
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Wallet’s gain with Apple Intelligence goes hand-in-hand with a feature many users long desired: the capability to add any pass to Wallet, not just ones that generate the Wallet-formatted membership cards, loyalty cards, rewards cards, and other kinds of things that you can add via a website or an app.

Wallet lets you add these manually, but the real power comes in a new feature added in iOS 27, using Visual Intelligence. (Wallet is available only on iPhone.) You can scan a card via the camera to turn it into a pass. Here’s how:

  1. Open the Wallet app.
  2. Tap the Add button.
  3. Tap Create a Pass.
  4. Tap Continue.
  5. Point the camera at the side of the card that has its barcode or QR code, then tap the shutter button. If Visual Intelligence can’t parse the card, it asks you to tap Try Again, Create Pass Manually, or Cancel.
  6. When successful, Wallet shows you a preview of the pass.
  7. You can now tap the Add button, and the pass is placed in your wallet.

If the card lacks a barcode or QR code, enter that information manually by tapping Create Pass Manually in the previous step.

Customize a pass

If you want to customize your pass, tap Edit Pass. Then you can:

  • Tap any white, slightly glowing rectangle, and edit the contents. Be sure to tap the portions of the field that contain text, numbers, or a barcode or QR code. If you tap the code field, Wallet brings up a camera to capture (or re-capture) the code.
  • Tap the Palette button to change the color scheme.
  • Tap the Edit button and then choose Add/Remove Fields. Then you can tap in areas within those glowing white rectangles and choose from a variety of field types to add more information to the card.

When you’re done, tap the blue checkmark to save changes.

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I've been testing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS for more than 10 years, focusing on tutorials, troubleshooting guides, how-to pieces, and other articles on Apple products.

Beyond NerdsModo, I've written how-to articles, troubleshooting guides and tutorials for a variety of other websites and publications, including iPhoneGeeks, GeeksModo and AARP Magazine.

I've used watchOS, iPadOS, and tvOS for years so I'm well versed in that world. I also know the visionOS quite well. I'm always working with an iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. And these days, I write a lot about Apple services, so that's become another key area for me.

My wife always jokes about all the Apple products we have around the house, but I manage to put them to good use for my articles. I like Apple computers, so I own a couple of Apple iMacs and several MacBooks. For my mobile life and work, I use an iPhone 16 Pro, iPad Pro, and iPad mini as well as an Apple Watch. But since I also write about Apple headsets, I own several Apple AirPods. Like any Apple user, I have a cabinet full of Accessories for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro. And when it's time to take a break from writing, I have an old Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, both of which I use for exercise and fitness games.

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