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title: Apple Wallet, Facebook Place Tips, Ad Blocker for iOS9 (ep 7)
date: "2015-06-16T05:09:35-07:00"
modified: "2023-01-31T05:45:41-07:00"
author: kims
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tags: ad platforms, Apple Passbook, apple wallet, developer conference, El Capitan OS, Facebook local business pages, Facebook place tips, hybrid online mobile marketing, iOS9, Mobile Ads Podcast, mobile marketing, SDK, WWDC
description: This week in Mobile Wallet Marketing Made Easy - recap of the WWDC (Apple dev) conference in San Francisco last week - including the name change to Apple Wallet for the current Apple Passbook; Facebook is giving away 250,000 iBeacons to local business page owners; iOS9 will have ad blocker options available to developers, making mobile wallet marketing to iOS users even more important.
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# Apple Wallet, Facebook Place Tips, Ad Blocker for iOS9 (ep 7)

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Duration: 19:18 | Recorded on June 16, 2015

# Apple Passbook is now Apple Wallet…

Apple’s yearly WWDC conference was held in San Francisco last week and the first part of this weeks _Mobile Wallet Marketing Made Easy_ podcast episode discusses the change with the biggest impact on mobile wallet marketing — **Apple Wallet**.  **Formerly Apple Passbook, the new name is indicative of the expanded functionality in the works**, and might just be confusing enough for Android owners to forget they don’t have iOS, iPhone or iPod in their hands.

Users should be on the lookout for some new features, new integrations, and **SMBs who are considering accepting Apple Pay** (that’s a BIG push now for Cupertino, getting the little guys onboard with Apple Pay) and Apple Wallet transactions should be thrilled at the **low cost integration that Square Register offers them** – especially if they haven’t upgraded to _EMV compliant terminals_ yet.

**Facebook Place Tips** – if you have a **local business page on Facebook**, hurry up and apply to get a **free iBeacon from Facebook**!  Not sure what an** iBeacon** is? Or how to actually use one if you get one?

**250,000 freebies** sounds like a lot until you take into account the sheer number of local business pages that are active on Facebook right now.  Quick search results show **30 million active pages but that count is more than a year old. **

## Turn Off Ads in Safari for iOS9…

We’re not quite sure how this one is going down yet.  It wasn’t exactly heralded with bells and whistles, like the _Apple Wallet, El Capitan OS_, or other key components of WWDC, but **clever devs reading the fine print on the changes announcements sussed it out pretty quickly**.

Highlights include:

- open to third parties

- using JSON library files (similar to Passbook or Apple Wallet interaction) to instruct Safari not to show ads

- no mention of whitelist for ‘approved’ ads yet

- no specific app from Apple defined

- can platforms or devs exclude competitors or is it all or nothing with ads

### More on these and other noteworthy news mentions in this weeks edition of the podcast.