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Digital wallets offer more than just payments, like storing boarding passes and hotel keys. Few hotels offer the convenience of storing your room key in Apple Wallet. To add your hotel key, ensure ...

Many hotel chains are racing to replace the plastic room key with digital options, including Apple Wallet and Google Wallet apps. Plastic hotel key cards have had a rough few years. During the ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Digital hotel keys in Google Wallet work the same as RFID hotel room key cards and digital room key functionality offered by ...

iOS 15 and watchOS 8 introduce the ability to add hotel room keys to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, allowing you to gain access to your room, elevators, and other locked areas by simply ...

Security experts are sending out the warning. There are simple things we should be doing right now to stay safe in hotels. It starts the moment you check in, you know the hotels give you the room key ...

There is a new warning for travelers after researchers, posed as hackers, expose a security flaw that could open millions of hotel-room doors. The good news is, they're helping to fix the problem ...

Google Wallet gained the ability to unlock hotel room doors at participating locations last year. With digital hotel room keys, you can use your phone to access hotel rooms and amenities, saving you ...