iPhone users may soon find it easier to divide the restaurant bill when dining out with a group of friends.
Apple is readying a new feature in iOS 27 that will allow users to photograph a receipt, assign items on the receipt to different people and generate payment requests, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The new feature will be tied to Apple’s peer-to-peer Apple Cash feature in the Wallet app, which lets users send, receive and request money directly through their iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch without a third-party app.
The feature is expected to be announced as early as next week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Gurman wrote Monday.
Since its introduction as Apple Passbook in 2021, Apple Wallet has slowly become one of the most important apps on the iPhone. Users can store debit and credit cards, gift cards, digital car keys, airline boarding passes, insurance cards, concert and museum tickets, and membership cards in the app. In some states, you can even add your driver’s license, state-issued identification card, or passport to the app.
Another new feature expected to be part of Apple’s next operating system is a new way to create passes in Apple Wallet. The feature, which works with tickets and passes that have scannable QR codes, allows customers to import the code to generate a custom pass, according to the Bloomberg report in May.
iOS 27 is expected to be previewed next week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and will likely be released in September when the newest iPhone, iPhone 18, comes out.
Apple representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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