[brad0]

A generic name for a collection of things used to gain access to something.

That’s not really helping explain it, so here’s some examples:

Airplane tickets, library membership barcode, sports tickets, loyalty cards for your local coffee shop, conference tickets, etc.

Essentially anything with a barcode first and foremost. The website that this blog is about allows you to generate your own passes.

[sebtron]

Can I use this feature to generate an airplane ticket? :P

I think "create" is the confusing part. It should be "digitize" or something. Either this, or "pass" means something else here.

[jstanley]

I literally don't get what this new feature is adding or why it would be part of an iPhone wallet.

If you want to issue tickets is your wallet the most obvious place to do it from? Why would an airline issue tickets from an iPhone?

Or, if this is just for storing tickets issued by other people, why does it benefit from going into the wallet app?

[toast0]

This is for storing tickets issued by other people.

It's handy because it provides an organizational tool. Airplane tickets are in wallet, concert tickets are in wallet. Maybe ferry passes and store discount ids should be too.

And also because you get better results from scanning a regenerated 2d/3d barcode after decoding the original vs scanning a photo of the original.