California-based Ticketmaster, part of Live Nation Entertainment, is the first company to enable new iOS 18 Apple Wallet event features that offer venue maps, parking details, recommended playlists from Apple Music, local weather and links to purchase merchandise, as well as location sharing to help find friends on arrival to live events. Venues and teams can also customize the Ticketmaster experience with links to their app or website so fans can get information about their events from Apple Wallet tickets. The app debuts with the Los Angeles Football Club home game at BMO Stadium on October 19.

“Fans on iOS 18.0 or later can add their ticket to Apple Wallet through the Ticketmaster app or LAFC team app,” Ticketmaster explains in an announcement that lists a Miami Heat game as the next event showcased via the Apple Wallet experience by Ticketmaster (which the company plans to roll out more broadly in 2025).

Engadget points out that Apple is making the new wallet features available to numerous companies but appears to have had some sort of announcement deal with Ticketmaster. The Apple Wallet update includes improvements like “a new Tap to Cash feature for faster money transfer,” Engadget adds.

Tap to Cash is “a new way to quickly transfer money just by holding two iPhones together,” explains 9to5Mac, adding that it also lets users “authenticate Apple Pay transactions on Windows PCs through an iPhone.”

Android Authority calls richer ticketing “one of the lesser-known iOS 18 features in Apple Wallet,” noting that supported events “will offer handy information right in the Wallet app.”

“With the new, enhanced ticket in Apple Wallet experience, fans are closer to the action from the moment they add their pass to their iPhone,” Ticketmaster President Mark Yovich said in the announcement.

Apple updated Wallet and other features with the release of iOS 18 on September 16. However, the bigger upgrade is expected with the release of iOS 18.1, which is expected to include Apple Intelligence enhancements when it debuts later this month. Apple Intelligence is expected to roll out in stages, with the first stage to include a writing assistant, Siri updates, summarized notifications and automated cleanup tools to help organize digital content.