From this week the Ministry of Health offers a new way to download our COVID Digital Certificate. Until now it only allowed us to download a PDF, but a new option allows us to request the COVID Digital Certificate directly in Passbook format.
The Passbook format is the one used by Apple Wallet to save cards on iPhones, but this file also makes it a bit easier to save the COVID Certificate on our Android mobile, by not having to now use third-party applications to convert the PDF into a Passbook, as we saw a few days ago in all the ways we have to install the COVID Certificate on our mobile.
Request the Certificate in Wallet or Passbook format
To download your Covid Digital Certificate in the Passbook format we have to reapply for your certificate, but only through the Ministry of Health we can download the file PKPASS that later with third-party applications that we will see later we can open on our Android mobile. The steps to download the Passbook of our COVID Certificate are the following:
When checking this box we have to write our phone number in order to download the file. After accepting the conditions of use and clicking on the “Accept” button below, we have to sign the operation with Cl @ ve or with the Autofirm @ system.
Once the application is completed, we just have to wait for an email notification and an SMS to our mobile phone. In the email we will have access to download the PDF while In the SMS we will receive a link to the Digital Certificate in Passbook format. By clicking on the link of the SMS we will access a form where, verifying our identity indicating our DNI, we will download the PassBook (PKPASS) file on our mobile that we can open with third-party applications.
How to save the PKPASS file in Google Pay
If we want to save the Passbook in Google Pay to make it more accessible, we have to use an intermediary application to save the PKPASS file in Google Pay, since currently the Google application does not support the Apple file. The best application to add Passbooks to Google Pay is Pass2Pay.
For this we have to install Pass2Pay on our mobile and open the downloaded .PKPASS file which will automatically fill in all the fields except for the field ‘Program name’ that we have to fill in manually by typing “Covid Certificate”. Then we can personalize the card by adding an image and changing its color. We uncheck the box “Include terms of use of Pass2Pay” and click on “Save to phone”. After the announcement we can save the card in Google Pay.
