If you place your phone exactly where it shows in the example video then you can’t miss it. Inside the page of the back cover with the phone mostly off of the passport. Mine picked it up right away and told me not to move it when it was reading it.
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Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App
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I literally have used this exclusively at airports. Never had a problem. Just make sure you hit confirm to send it after scanning.
It’s basically a contactless smart card. Those periodically get security updates to make it harder to get at any sensitive data. But they probably present the same data (your info, name and birthday) when read regardless, just better protected so someone can’t just run commands and get sensitive secure element information out of it, like to make copies.
Very interesting appears on my old iPhone 15 Pro Max but not my iPhone 16 Pro Max :-(
Your passport is a valid ID. Non-government entities that need an ID probably won’t accept this.
I know. I mean my state ID. Every time I returned to California, I had to carry my passport with me all the time, and I was scared of losing it.
There is nothing confusing to me. No need to sound so rude about it.huh?? It was introduced as an ios26 feature, and line one clearly says:
what's not to understand here? was it the 'or later' that confused you
- An iPhone 11 or later running iOS 26.1 or later, or an Apple Watch Series 6 or later running watchOS 26.1 or later
Just pointing out that there were times that the articles may not cover all older OS versions despite they may also have said feature.
The international terminal had an equipment malfunction. 400+ people queued up upstairs there. Agent walking down the line announcing "if you have global entry AND your card" take it out and you can pass.
Saved me hours..
Its the start, global travel will take long time, might have agreements with specific contraries e.g. US to UK routes
The only thing useless is posts like yours.
We can now check in and cross security in 250 airports with out smartphones, without physical papers of IDs. But keep complaining.
*cough*
Go try a few . . . it's a comically-Sisyphean adventure 🤷♂️
TSA Reps are not often noted for their networking acumen. If you're (personally) TSA-Pre, you may gain some traction; nevertheless, make sure to bring your physical ID.
They are actually surprisingly up to date...you scan a Real ID now and most every airport, and this is most likely the same technology.
If you're going to complain about it at least get your facts straight, this can be used as ID at the TSA checkpoints that allow it. Things like this take time to roll out and become more widely adopted. This is just the beginning. Remember Apple Pay? I used to only be able to use it at a single coffee shop and now I can use it almost everywhere.
This is a 1.0. The laws to allow this just recently passed. Android has an equivalent coming too (or it may be out).
Took me two attempts to add to my iPhone. On both attempts (the second being successful), I had selected to add to both iPhone and Apple Watch, but it never appeared on Watch.
I went into the Watch app (under Wallet/Apple Pay) and saw an option to add my Digital ID (from iPhone) to my Apple Watch. It didn’t need to scan my passport again, but it required more face scan verification. I’ve tried that 3 times now, and it keeps telling me that I need to complete the verification again
Maybe Apple Watch support isn’t quite ready? Everything running the latest (non-beta) OS
I went into the Watch app (under Wallet/Apple Pay) and saw an option to add my Digital ID (from iPhone) to my Apple Watch. It didn’t need to scan my passport again, but it required more face scan verification. I’ve tried that 3 times now, and it keeps telling me that I need to complete the verification again
Maybe Apple Watch support isn’t quite ready? Everything running the latest (non-beta) OS
Just like Apple Pay, it can come in handy if you don’t have your real wallet with you.
Maybe don't be condescending. My passport is not expired, and I'm not trying to scan both pages. It's not intuitive and easy to use. It literally does nothing when I frame my passport info page in the frame on my phone.
Make sure not to cover the machine readable zone at the bottom of the ID page with your thumb or something. That's really the only thing that it needs to read with the camera (the MRZ contains a code that is required to unlock and read the data from the passport's RFID chip).
I look forward to the stories of the air passengers who think they can fly internationally without their physical passports.
I've had the exact same issue, and I was also having the issue with my driver's license, both refusing to add the ID to the watch. In the end I unpaired the watch and configured it as a new watch. After a couple of attempts (in the end I also had to remove the passport ID from the phone) I was able to add the passport ID and the drivers license to the watch. I am not sure what was stuck. It seems to me it is a bug. Just sharing that I had to go a bit to the extremes to get this to work. To summarize, what I think worked for me was to unpair watch, remove IDs from iPhone, pair the watch again. Wait until the wallet app gets installed to watch, try to re-enroll on IDs on the iPhone and ask for the ID to be installed to Apple Watch. Wait until the whole thing goes through. It took some more time for the IDs to show in the watch. I had to be a bit patient. I think on my last attempt I didn't have to manually add the IDs from the watch app wallet settings entry in the iPhone. I think it added the IDs automatically to the watch.