what is a mobile wallet 
a mobile wallet stores credit or debit card information on a mobile device such as a smartphone tablet or smartwatch mobile wallets are a convenient way for you to buy things online or in stores that are set up to take payments through the wallet they may also be more secure than physical payment cards because of the technology they use to protect your account information understanding mobile walletsa mobile wallet is either a built in feature or an app that can be installed onto smartphones a mobile wallet stores credit card debit card coupon or reward card information and can connect directly to bank accounts three of the main mobile built in wallets are apple wallet google wallet and samsung wallet these apps store your payment card information but can also hold other documents such as event tickets vaccination records or airline boarding passes they are integrated with their respective payment services apple pay google pay and samsung wallet which are used to make payments you as a user may not even notice the difference between say apple wallet and apple pay take note that p2p payments via google pay are no longer available for u s users although they may be available in certain other countries 1