In addition to paying, receiving money and adding friends, the QR codes you use every day also have these practical functions

QR codes are widely used. Payment, car rental, adding friends, etc. can all be solved by "scanning". However, black and white, static QR codes sometimes make people feel boring or even disgusted. In fact, there are many ways to play with QR codes in new ways. You can find more interesting ways in the QR code play topic.

DIY a QR code

Every time I take the subway, I see a black and white mosaic floating in the distance, and I get disgusted - another "please scan the code". Compared to these half-hearted mosaics, the QR codes I used when I worked part-time as a student were like this:

Such a QR code is very convenient to make. Many tools have provided the "one-click generation" function. Taking REQRCode on macOS as an example, after we select the picture and text content, we can quickly make a QR code full of artistic atmosphere.

New uses for QR codes

Now that you have made a good-looking QR code, of course you have to show it off. Here are some novel uses for QR codes.

One QR code to use WeChat and Alipay

As one of the most common uses of QR codes, payment codes can be regarded as our old friends, but we often use WeChat and Alipay at the same time, and it is too troublesome to open the app and look up the two payment codes every time. The following website allows you to "combine two codes into one" and use one QR code to collect two kinds of money at the same time🌚

Put your QR code on your iPhone lock screen

If you want to show off your uniqueness in front of others, you might as well try putting your payment code or WeChat business card on your phone's lock screen. Wait, I'm not saying to set them as wallpapers... I'm saying to "hide" them under your phone's lock screen.

The first method uses the Wallet app on the iPhone. Double-clicking the Home button on the locked screen will summon the QR code. The display effect is as follows:

The production is not complicated. You can make a card with a QR code in three steps:

• Parse your own QR code on a website that provides QR code parsing services (such as the grass QR code);
• Open PassSource, select "QR" in the first blue box as shown below, paste the parsed result into the second blue box, and upload your favorite avatar pictures in the two "Upload File" options at the bottom;

Card making 3. Click the Regitser button to generate a card, and click the add to Apple Wallet button on your phone to add it directly. If you make it on a computer, you can right-click the button and select copy address, and then open it on the mobile browser.

The second method is very cool. It uses Live Photo on iPhone to create a dynamic QR code pop-up effect: