How to add a PDF ticket to Apple Wallet
Apple Wallet only accepts passes in the .pkpass format. It won’t open a plain PDF. There are two ways to get a ticket from a PDF, photo or screenshot into Wallet: the issuer’s own button, or Entrisa.
Look for the issuer’s button first
Some carriers and organisers put an Add to Apple Wallet button in the ticket email or in their own app. If you have one, tap it. That’s the shortest route, and you don’t need Entrisa for it.
When all you have is a PDF
- Download Entrisa from the App Store.
- Open the PDF in Mail or Files, tap Share and choose Entrisa. Or open the Import tab in Entrisa and tap “Choose a file”.
- Check what Entrisa read: the route, the time, the seat. Fields it isn’t sure about are highlighted. Fix anything that’s wrong and tap “Save Ticket”.
- In the saved ticket’s details, tap Add to Apple Wallet and confirm.
The code on the pass is the one on your ticket, in the same form. Entrisa carries it over unchanged and never rebuilds it from typed-in details.
One PDF can hold several tickets, such as an outbound and return journey or a few cinema seats. You save each one separately, and each gets its own pass.
A photo or screenshot works too
Photograph a paper ticket, or take a screenshot of a ticket on screen. In the Import tab, tap “Photo” and choose the image. The whole code has to be in the picture and in sharp focus.
Tickets you can’t move
- A ticket whose code keeps changing or is tied to one phone, such as SafeTix, Eventim.Pass or AXS Mobile ID. Show that ticket in the issuer’s app.
- A ticket with a kind of code Wallet doesn’t draw, such as Data Matrix. You can save it and show it in Entrisa, and the Add to Apple Wallet button won’t appear for it.
- Wallet draws EAN-13 and ITF barcodes from iOS 27. On iOS 26 you show such a ticket in Entrisa.
- A ticket whose date has already passed.
What happens to your ticket
Entrisa reads PDFs and photos on your iPhone. The phone builds the pass as well. To sign it, our server receives only cryptographic hashes of the pass files, never the ticket content. You don’t need an account.
What it costs
The download is free, and your first three tickets are free to save. After that, a one-time in-app purchase unlocks more; the App Store shows the price in your currency. No subscription, no ads.
Does the ticket have to go into Wallet?
No. You can open a saved ticket in Entrisa with one tap: the code full screen, black on white, even offline. Keep the original document too, in case of an extra check.
