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Manchester's Bee Card Now Fully Supported in Apple Wallet

In August, Transport for Greater Manchester announced that the Bee Card could be added to the Apple Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, but it was limited to younger riders using free or discounted "Our Pass" tickets. As of this Tuesday, though, the Bee Card is now fully supported in Apple Wallet for all types of Bee Network tickets.

Apple Wallet Bee Card
To add the card to Apple Wallet, open the app, tap on the plus sign in the top-right corner, select "Travel Card" (may appear as "Transit Card" for some users), scroll down to the United Kingdom section, and choose Bee Network.

Once the card has been added, you can buy bus and tram tickets directly in Apple Wallet and store them on the virtual Bee Card. Then, when traveling on the Bee Network in Greater Manchester, you can simply tap your iPhone or Apple Watch on a card reader to pay for your fare. If you enable Express Mode, there is no need to wake or unlock the iPhone or Apple Watch when holding it near the card reader.

iOS 27 is required to add the Bee Card to Apple Wallet.

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Top Rated Comments

dontwalkhand Avatar
5 weeks ago
I submitted this tip. I have some more insider information on this. Pretty much any system using the Vix Technology platform, Vix Pulse, is going to get Apple Wallet support eventually. This means, Phoenix, Dallas, and Edmonton are up and coming soon.

So expect this transit list to finally grow.

And for those complaining about London, another little birdie told me that is coming too! (I keep up doing FOIA requests to the TfL for the Ticketing and Revenue Update!) London is a Cubic based system (now managed by Indra), but we are also waiting on New York OMNY Cards and Clipper, TAP account based fixes first before the Oyster one is released.

Yes, this space is quite global, but the industry is quite small, So chain reaction rollouts are quite common.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jambon Avatar
5 weeks ago
If only TFL would do the same for Oyster cards in London..,
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dontwalkhand Avatar
5 weeks ago

why would you use an Oyster card instead of contactless?
Reduced Fare.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Mrkevinfinnerty Avatar
5 weeks ago

Bee Card article provides salty Manchester locals on MR an opportunity to complain about their public transportation system in 3...2....
Our public transport is pretty good tbh. Except the trains which are an atrocity but they aren't in the Bee Network.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
5 weeks ago

Contactless works the same as Oyster in that respect, same pricing.
Not with a railcard linked to the Oyster card
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
5 weeks ago

Reduced Fare.
Contactless works the same as Oyster in that respect, same pricing.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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