Manage passes data

Your activity in Google Wallet is saved in your Google Account. This activity includes items like passes you save to Wallet and how you use them. You can control how this data is used, what data is saved, and manage your privacy settings.

About passes

In Google Wallet, passes include items like:

  • Gift cards
  • Transit cards
  • Boarding passes
  • Event tickets
  • Loyalty cards
  • Digital car keys
  • Campus IDs

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Passes data settings

Personalization within Google Wallet

This setting allows Google Wallet to give you tips, suggestions, and helpful features based on how you use your passes. Info like the types of passes you saved and how you used them are used to personalize your Wallet experience.

This setting is turned on by default, and you can turn it off at any time. If the setting is off, you can still find and use any of your passes, but your experience isn’t personalized based on your activity.

To turn this setting on or off in the app:

  1. On your phone, open the Google Wallet app .
  2. In the top right, tap your Profile picture or Account and then Your data in Wallet and then Manage passes data.
  3. Turn Personalization within Wallet on or off.

To turn this setting on or off on the website:

  1. Go to the Google Wallet website.
  2. On the left, click Settings.
  3. Under “Data & Privacy,” click Manage passes data.
  4. Turn Personalization within Wallet on or off.
Use passes across Google

This setting lets you access passes from your Google Wallet from within other Google products such as Google Maps and Calendar.

This setting is on by default, and you can turn it off at any time. If it’s turned off, info from Google Wallet isn’t shared with other Google services.

To turn this setting on or off in the app:

  1. On your phone, open the Google Wallet app .
  2. In the top right, tap your Profile picture or Account and then Your data in Wallet and then Manage passes data.
  3. Turn Use passes across Google on or off.

To turn this setting on or off on the website:

  1. Go to the Google Wallet website.
  2. On the left, click Settings.
  3. Under “Data & Privacy,” click Manage passes data.
  4. Turn Use passes across Google on or off.

Turn off sharing for individual passes

Important: Certain objects aren’t shared if they have sensitive info. For example, if you store a Vaccine Card in Google Wallet, it isn’t accessible from other Google services.

If the passes privacy control setting is on, you can control whether you can access individual passes from within Google. To change the setting for an individual pass (available on the Google Wallet app only):

  1. On your phone, open the Google Wallet app .
  2. Tap the pass that you want to manage.
    • You may need to swipe to find it.
  3. At the bottom, tap Details.
  4. At the bottom, turn Use pass across Google on or off.
Personalization across Google

Important: This personalization setting isn’t available if the setting “Use passes across Google” is turned off.

When this setting is turned on, you may get personalized results and recommendations in places like Maps, Calendar, and Assistant. Personalization is based on the passes you have in Wallet and how you use them. You can turn this setting off at any time.

This setting is off by default, you can turn it on or off at any time. If it's turned off, you can still find and use any passes that you saved but you don’t get personalized results and recommendations in other Google services.

To turn this setting on or off in the app:

  1. On your phone, open the Google Wallet app .
  2. In the top right, tap your Profile picture or Account and then Your data in Wallet and then Manage passes data.
  3. Turn Personalization across Google on or off.

To turn this setting on or off on the website:

  1. Go to the Google Wallet website.
  2. On the left, click Settings.
  3. Under “Data & Privacy,” click Manage passes data.
  4. Turn Personalization across Google on or off.

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