Because the cards aren't different cards.
In my case, I have a personal card and a shared card from the same bank. The card type is the same, one just happens to have my spouse as a co-owner.
Some banks do allow you to pick a card look/image. Most don't.
But whatever the case, Apple really should allow tagging cards in the Wallet with a small icon/emoji/something. It doesn't need to be fancy - just enough to visually distinguish two otherwise visually similar cards.
just enough to visually distinguish two otherwise visually similar cards.
How about a simple, old fashioned text label for each card?
For all I know there is something like that, but it'll be buried in settings, probably in accessibility, where nobody ever goes.
Discoverability of options on the iPhone is fraught with danger and distrust, I learned about CarPlay widgets a few days ago and I've used it for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUminiQjtM
From my limited experience, Apple often denies the obvious for the sake of asthetics.
For example, the simple utility of a [Backspace] key.
Apple's keyboards have keys marked delete or a symbol where other keyboards have keys marked backspace, delete, or a symbol. Their utility was the same in my experience. What obvious difference did I not see?
For a long time Apple had keyboards with only delete (delete the character at or in front of the cursor) and not backspace (delete the character before the cursor).
I saw or heard this never. This was when?
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mxcl3ll/a/magic-keyboard-...
https://pfeiffertheface.com/why-is-there-no-backspace-key-on...
https://www.macworld.com/article/672671/how-to-forward-delet...
My 1st comment said Apple's keyboards have keys marked delete or a symbol where other keyboards have keys marked backspace, delete, or a symbol. And these keys had the same utility.
bombcar said some Apple keyboards had a delete key which did not delete the character before the cursor and not a key which deleted the character before the cursor.
The 1st page showed Apple's keyboards had keys marked delete or a symbol where other keyboards had keys marked backspace, delete, or a symbol. The 2nd page was disordered slop but said Apple keyboards' delete and other keyboards' backspace had the same function. The 3rd page said Apple keyboards had the key bombcar said not and not the key bombcar said they had.
Just demonstrates the ambiguity and confusion which Apple has created around basic text input with their "innovation" of keyboard design.
Some try to explain this as an effort to save precious space but this doesn't quite add up since they also added a whole row of superfluous and unique "junk" keys as shown in the first link straight from the source.
The Apple confusion started much, MUCH earlier - see https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/backspace-vs-delete-a-topic-on...
I've tried to come up with the reason they don't do it, and thought MAYBE they were afraid people would put PINs for the cards there and they thought it's a bad idea. I wonder why I even tried to invent a good reason for them, designers could just lack perspective and do not care at all, even in apple.
Why would you save the PIN? It’s not required when doing Wallet transactions - it uses Face ID or similar.
contactless ATMs