{"id":137025,"date":"2025-08-11T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:23:11","slug":"google-wallet-now-wants-your-location-before-itll-show-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137025\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Wallet now wants your location before it\u2019ll show receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"elk-f2ea6799-2052-41f3-b76d-a3549eee77be\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>What you need to know<\/p>\n<ul id=\"12b4c242-fc33-46a4-bddf-9af57b63f153\">\n<li>Google Wallet now requires location permission on Android to show maps and addresses on your payment receipts.<\/li>\n<li>Before late July, store details and maps appeared automatically on receipts.<\/li>\n<li>Now, that\u2019s off by default, and you have to enable \u201cPrecise location\u201d in the app to bring them back.<\/li>\n<li>If a receipt doesn\u2019t show the map, you\u2019ll see a prompt encouraging you to set up location access for future transactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"8cfd9ea6-8677-49b2-bf1a-0746dec0ddf7\">Location permission is now required for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/tag\/google-wallet\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/tag\/google-wallet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Wallet<\/a> to display maps and addresses on receipts.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/08\/09\/google-wallet-receipts-location-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/08\/09\/google-wallet-receipts-location-map\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">9to5Google<\/a> reports that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/apps-software\/google-wallet\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/apps-software\/google-wallet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Wallet<\/a> on Android now asks for location access if you want receipts that include store addresses and maps.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"8cfd9ea6-8677-49b2-bf1a-0746dec0ddf7-2\">Until late July, Google Wallet receipts showed store details and a map without any extra steps. Now, that\u2019s turned off by default, and you have to switch on \u201cPrecise location\u201d in the app to see them again, as per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>If a transaction is missing the map card, you\u2019ll see a message saying: &#8220;Get detailed receipts, like merchant name and address, for future tap to pay transactions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:224.54%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/p3tDR6qC9Fii7gqo2twUNj.jpg\" alt=\"Google Wallet receipt showing a location permission alert\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/p3tDR6qC9Fii7gqo2twUNj.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/p3tDR6qC9Fii7gqo2twUNj.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: 9to5Google)<a id=\"elk-98014007-2671-4021-a01b-5f75086a56f7\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>No retroactive updates<\/p>\n<p id=\"3bc302e0-e1b7-4e8a-9ad6-87f418685553\">Switching this option on won\u2019t update past transactions with maps or addresses since it only kicks in for new payments going forward.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, open a recent receipt in Google Wallet. You\u2019ll be prompted to &#8220;Set up location settings,&#8221; which will guide you through enabling &#8220;Precise location&#8221; for the app.<\/p>\n<p>9to5 notes that no new features have been added to Google Wallet receipts; the change simply requires location permission for the existing map and address details to be displayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get the latest news from Android Central, your trusted companion in the world of Android<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s helpful that Google prompts for location permission rather than enabling it behind the scenes. Without that, many users could be confused about missing maps without any explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What you need to know Google Wallet now requires location permission on Android to show maps and addresses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-137025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115010352104969951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}