Australians can now put their COVID-19 vaccination certificates into Apple Wallet

Au Covid 19 Pass In Apple Wallet (Image credit: Tap Down Under)

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The Australian government has now begun to allow iPhone users to put their COVID-19 vaccination certificates in Apple Wallet.
Users will be able to show their certificate without opening any apps.

Australians who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 now have a new way to show people after the government enabled a feature that puts their certificate into Apple Wallet. With the certificate added, people can show officials their vaccination status without having to launch an app. What's more, they can even do it without unlocking their iPhone, too.

First reported by Tap Down Under, the move also means that Android users can add their certificate to the Google Pay interface — but we don't care about that, do we?

As of today, it's now possible to add a copy of your COVID-19 digital certificate to your digital wallet of choice – Apple Wallet or Google Pay – making it easier to show proof of vaccination for which will undoubtedly become required sometime in the future.

Adding your vaccination certificate to the Wallet app is as simple as heading to a website and signing in, although people with the Medicare app installed can also add the certificate that way if they prefer. Tap Down Under has all the deets.

The move comes just a few days after the UK's NHS did the same, too.

There is of course another type of Apple Wallet — the MagSafe Leather Wallet. At $59 it isn't cheap, but there are tons of options on the market. Check out our collection of the best MagSafe iPhone wallets before placing any orders of your own.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.