Children with Android phones will be able to use Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay next year

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Children with Android phones will be able to use

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Wallet’s tap-to-pay next year

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Wallet for kids will roll out in 2025. “Following the positive response of tap-to-pay on Fitbit Ace LTE devices, we’re expanding tap-to-pay for kids to

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Wallet,”

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wrote in a statement to 9to5Google, which

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on it. Parents could approve credit and debit cards added to children’s phones, and

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’s Family Link would let them view transactions and easily approve or remove cards.

The service would build on the tap-to-pay functionality in

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’s Fitbit Ace LTE kids’ activity tracker. The expansion would make the

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Wallet app available for Android phone-using children whose parents have set up Family Link and approved access.

Any of the parents’ existing payment cards in

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Wallet could be used for the kids’ spinoff. When paying, children would have to approve tap-to-pay purchases using standard authentication options (fingerprint, facial recognition, PIN or password). At launch, the service is said to support gift cards and event tickets but not online purchases, identification or health cards.

Apple already has a similar take on children’s purchases. Families in the company’s ecosystem can let their kids use Apple Pay in stores and online or send money through Messages with

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9to5Google says

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’s kids’ payments feature will roll out next year for “some

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Wallet users in several countries,” including the US. A wider rollout is expected at some point after that.

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