Google Wallet’s big redesign has rolled out and your favorites just got easier to access

Over the past few months, Google has been testing some major interface upgrades to the Wallet app to ease access to important or most-used passes. While we brought you early previews of these features by teasing them internally in the app, Google is now officially rolling out these visual upgrades.

After the upgrade to version 26.14.895964528, the Google Wallet app is switching to a grid layout for the home page. The new design organizes favorites in a more attractive structure and reduces the amount of scrolling required to reach important passes.

As we first discovered in February, the new priority system for passes relies on marking them as favorites using a star-shaped button. However, adding them to the home screen is currently a multi-step process.

When you scroll to the bottom of the home screen, you’ll now see a new “See More” button that will open up in full to show your top passes. The page also shows a search bar as well as options to “View more passes” and “Manage passes at home.” The first takes you to a list of all passes added to your Wallet, where you’ll see the full list of passes you’ve saved, and this list can be sorted either alphabetically or by how recently you’ve added these passes.

Meanwhile, when you tap the “Manage Passes at Home” button, you’ll be taken to another screen showing a list of already starred passes. You can use the “Reorder” function to change the priority of passes or tap “Add to Home” to make more passes easily accessible from the Home screen.

Here’s a video showcasing the new design:

You can also arrange the dice by simply dragging them from the home screen and dropping them to the desired location. This was also possible with list view in previous versions of the app.

The update also brings a new interface for the individual passes. The interface now gives more prominence to the graphics used for the pass, but shrinks the member ID to a small portion of the card-sized imagery, presumably trying to mimic how the actual card looks. However, Google has yet to release the more colorful Pass UI that we saw tested last month.

Another thing worth noting here is the star icon that appears at the top of each card overview. You can add or remove individual passes to or from the home screen by tapping this icon.

Finally, note that while the rollout has begun, it may not be immediately available on your device. We tested sideloading the app bundle for the latest version of Google Wallet, but only a few devices received the new interface, suggesting this is likely a server-side rollout. In the meantime, you can prepare your device by updating the app to its latest version from the Play Store.