~ MamakTalk ~: Now You Can Store Your COVID-19 Vaccination Cards In Samsung Pay

2021年8月19日星期四

Now You Can Store Your COVID-19 Vaccination Cards In Samsung Pay

Samsung is launching a new feature for Samsung Pay called SMART Health Cards, which lets you store your COVID-19 vaccination cards within the app.

The feature is a collaboration between Samsung and CommonHealth. A company which helps people digitize their health data in case they ever need more readily accessible versions of it. More and more places and venues are requiring people to verify that they’ve been vaccinated prior to being allowed entry.

So Samsung is making that process as easy as possible for users. The new feature does have a couple of caveats though. Most notably, the use of it is limited to Galaxy smartphones. Since it relies on the Samsung Pay app. But there are also a few steps to take before you can whip out your mobile device and verify your vaccination status.

The Samsung Pay SMART Health Cards feature requires the CommonHealth app

Before you can use Samsung Pay for verification, you’ll need the CommonHealth app installed as well. As you’ll need to link the two accounts for data to be shared.

You’ll also be using the CommonHealth app to do the actual digitizing of the COVID-19 vaccination card. The only role Samsung Pay really plays is storing that data inside of it so you can access it. Samsung Pay already lets you access most of your other cards in one easy to use location. Including your credit and debit cards, loyalty cards, rewards cards and more.

Once you have the CommonHealth app installed, finishing things up shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. You simply follow the instructions within the app to access your vaccine information and once it’s digitized, you link the app to Samsung pay.

There should be a button in the CommonHealth app specifically for linking the two accounts. You then open the Samsung Pay app and click on a dedicated COVID-19 vaccine pass if you ever need it for verification.

Samsung says this feature is rolling out to users over the next two weeks. So not everyone will have it right away. This is also a feature that is currently only available in the US.

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