Google Wallet finally ditches its boring design. Your passes will now light up the entire screen

Google has started rolling out an update that gives Google Wallet a significantly more colorful look. This isn’t a transformation of the entire app, but rather the passes screen – the place where you store flight tickets, train tickets, or cinema tickets. And these now look much livelier than before.

Your passes will color the entire screen

The entire new feature is based on colors. Each pass has its characteristic shade, and now this shade will spread across the entire screen – both the background and the controls within the pass will harmonize into one tone. For example, according to servers that captured the update, a Delta airline boarding pass will turn entirely red. The result looks more unified and certainly less boring than what users were accustomed to.

The change comes with Google Wallet update number 26.32.962917069, which Google started rolling out on August 18. However, even if you install it, the new look might not appear immediately – it’s a server-side adjustment that Google is enabling gradually and in waves.

This is by no means the only new feature in recent weeks. The Wallet recently added payments directly from smartwatches with Wear OS, which we wrote about earlier.

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Don’t like it? You can only partially revert to the old look

If you’re not keen on the colorful interfaces, you can revert to the older display. Just tap the clock-like button in the top right corner, and the pass will appear without coloring the entire screen. The only catch is that the change won’t last – as soon as you leave the screen and open the pass again, the colors are back.

A permanent toggle between the old and new look is missing from the app, and it’s unlikely we’ll see one in any future updates. Android Authority points out that Google will likely completely remove this revert option in one of the upcoming versions. So, you can slowly say goodbye to the old design.

Do you like Google Wallet’s colorful transformation, or are you on team old look?

Sources: Android Headlines, Android Authority