Back in October, Google said it would give Google Wallet on Android the ability to track live flight updates on your home screen through a persistent notification, and this is now finally live.
These live updates show up if you’ve previously added a boarding pass to Google Wallet. Doing that already gave you notifications with updates like boarding time and gate changes, and Wallet also uses its Gmail integration to remind you to check in if you haven’t added a boarding pass for a flight booking that you have in your emails.
Now, if you’re on Android 16, you’ll also get the persistent notification you can see in the screenshots above. This becomes active shortly before takeoff, and you’ll get your estimated time of arrival, as well as a progress bar showing the flight’s duration and how much of it you’ve already gone through.
If you tap this notification, you’ll be taken to the usual ticket page with a link to Google Flights at the bottom that opens as a web search result.
