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Adding items to Apple Wallet in Firefox iOS

Firefox for iOS Sync configuration
mwd.paterson replied 12 hours ago
mwd.paterson
mwd.paterson

I've gone all-in on Firefox as my default desktop browser (macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1) and on my iPhone 12 (iOS 27.0.1). I love Firefox and always used it as my 'backup' browser, now it's my default main browser and everything is going well apart from a couple of small things:

1) Adding event tickets/boarding passes from an email into Apple Wallet. From what I understand, the wallet links are small files (comparable to the .ics ones to import calendar events). But iOS Firefox doesn't know what to do with them. I have to save the small files and open them up in Safari for iOS, which then recognizes them and adds to the Wallet. I'd rather not have to do it each time, I fly a lot. Any advice? Is there a setting for a 'file type' somewhere I'm missing?

2) The 'shortcuts' we create on the home page when opening up Firefox. I have a nicely curated set of shortcuts where I've added a bunch manually for instant access to websites, pinned, and I use this feature constantly. Love it. However, even though I sync with the Firefox iOS version, bookmarks and history sync fine but not the pinned shortcuts - they seem entirely separate, and seem random. I'd love to be able to have one set across both platforms. Is that possible? What am I missing?

I've gone all-in on Firefox as my default desktop browser (macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1) and on my iPhone 12 (iOS 27.0.1). I love Firefox and always used it as my 'backup' browser, now it's my default main browser and everything is going well apart from a couple of small things: 1) Adding event tickets/boarding passes from an email into Apple Wallet. From what I understand, the wallet links are small files (comparable to the .ics ones to import calendar events). But iOS Firefox doesn't know what to do with them. I have to save the small files and open them up in Safari for iOS, which then recognizes them and adds to the Wallet. I'd rather not have to do it each time, I fly a lot. Any advice? Is there a setting for a 'file type' somewhere I'm missing? 2) The 'shortcuts' we create on the home page when opening up Firefox. I have a nicely curated set of shortcuts where I've added a bunch manually for instant access to websites, pinned, and I use this feature constantly. Love it. However, even though I sync with the Firefox iOS version, bookmarks and history sync fine but not the pinned shortcuts - they seem entirely separate, and seem random. I'd love to be able to have one set across both platforms. Is that possible? What am I missing?

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jbr
jbr
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PassKit passes are quite a mess, and the system interfaces only handle a subset, and the rest are left for the consumer app to figure out 🤷 so it might happen there's a new path or format that's not special–cased yet.

If you make sure you've updated to v157.1 that has some JS/blob fixes for on–the–fly passes in github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/35674 — could you check if you still reproduce?

It would be helpful to have a site, link, or sample passes reported as an issue in the tracker linked above.

mwd.paterson
mwd.paterson Question owner

Thank you so much for your reply, @jbr. Today I updated the iOS app to version 158.0 and also my desktop version. I didn't think about trying out free tickets on Eventbrite, good idea. I registered for a local free event, pressed on the usual 'Add to Apple Wallet' - and it worked! Bingo. So at least Eventbrite has the right PassKit code, maybe it was an issue with American Airlines who I flew with before. We'll see, I'm off in a few weeks again.

Any ideas about syncing the shortcuts across desktop and iOS?

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