Ticketmaster has announced that it will be the first participating ticket issuer for the enhanced interactive ticketing experience in Apple’s Wallet app on iOS 18.
The upcoming Los Angeles Football Club game at BMO Stadium on Saturday, October 19, will be the first event to debut Wallet app’s upgraded tickets, with the Miami Heat next to debut the new ticketing experience. You can add your ticket to the iPhone’s Wallet app through the Ticketmaster or LAFC app. Once in Wallet, your ticket will let you access key venue details, use ticket management features provided by the Ticketmaster, and more—all in one place. Ticketmaster will expand the availability of its iOS 18-compatible event tickets in 2025.
“Ticketmaster’s new tickets take advantage of Apple Wallet’s enhanced ticketing experience,” the company noted. “They will offer new designs customized for the event that fans are attending, bringing them closer to the gameday experience before it even begins.”
iOS 18’s Wallet brings much more useful event tickets that can embed richer information such as venue maps, parking details, local weather forecasts, curated Apple Music playlists, location sharing to help you find your friends when you arrive, and more. The new ticketing experience is available for concerts, sports games, festivals, conferences, and similar events. Like before, these digital passes can be used for contactless NFC entry.
iOS 18’s upgraded tickets are much more useful as they can now display seating information or the event start date and time and include actionable buttons that link out to in-app experiences, including ordering food, buying merchandise, viewing a bag policy, etc. Of course, the new ticketing experience is only available for tickets from participating issuers, and we now know that Ticketmaster will be the first Apple partner to offer them.
iOS 18’s Wallet also supports interactive event guides. If I were a concert organizer, I could easily create a Wallet ticket that would include an event guide combining helpful information about the venue with recommendations from Apple apps and links to additional services. The Wallet app also provides ticket updates via the Live Activities feature, and intelligently surfaces services and recommendations from relevant Apple apps like Weather or Calendar.
Source: Ticketmaster
