I'm using the liquid glass OS and I SERIOUSLY believe you guys are just blowing things way up. Don't see anything all that bad or nowhere as remotely horrible as you guys are making it out to be AT ALL. Trying to just dissuade aintcha??
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Apple Confirms iOS 26 Wallet Passport Feature is Coming in 2025
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Who said Apple automatically deserves to change your OS every year? I said no and turned Automatic Update off. If that doesn't dissuade you, that's no skin off my nose.
Just making sure. Your statement was pretty broad. And to be fair, some people are that dumb, and some who read statements like that are that gullible.
But you don't even need a physical passport for domestic travel - all it takes is a Real-ID compliant drivers license. So the question is still somewhat valid given that the target audience is probably the relatively small set of people who don't have a recent drivers license, but do have a passport and don't want to bring it on a domestic flight.
Incidentally, is this going to work at *all* TSA stations as the article implies? I thought I read somewhere that it's only at specific (and not that many) airports.
I highly doubt Apple would do something so clumsy. They are, after all, highly protective of your privacy. What I do expect - and actually hope for - is that they create some sort of standard age verification API that web sites can use. E.g. if I register a government approved id card (e.g. drivers license or passport) in Apple Wallet, then Apple could verify my age without giving away any personal data whatsoever.
Seems to force people to only use sanctioned phones and computers then, doesn't it?
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Not necessarily. Apple has a pretty decent record of creating and supporting open standards, so I'd hope that they'd do so again on this API. Just to give you one recent example: passkeys. Apple and Google and other members of the FIDO Alliance came up with that.
The way it currently works with state ID in Wallet is that the party that requests verification determines what information it wants to see. Apple will then present the user with a list of the information requested and you can agree or decline. You can't selectively hold back some of the information that was requested. So yes, it is possible to verify only the age without providing other information, but nothing prevents the requester from demanding more information if you want to use their services.
This might be a stupid question, but something the exable screenshots/renders never show (for obvious reasons) is any kind of info normally avalable on an id car of any usfull king (ie photo, birthdate etc) am I wrong in assuming yjat these are avalable on an actual digital id, in if not what use are theai as they can't actually be uused to veryfy a parsons identity?
Digital ID, the iOS 26 feature that lets U.S. passport holders add their passports to the Wallet app, is coming later in 2025, Apple confirmed today.
Apple updated the release timing wording of Digital ID on its iOS 26 features page. "Digital ID will be coming later this year with US passports only," it reads.
Prior to today, the footnote for the feature said "Digital ID will be available in a software update with U.S. passports only," with no associated release timeline.
Curiously, Apple removed the mention of a software update, but in all likelihood, Digital ID will be introduced in an iOS 26.1 or iOS 26.2 update before the end of the year. Apple has already seeded the first beta of iOS 26.1 to developers and Digital ID support is not included, but it could be added later in the beta testing period.
Digital ID builds on driver's license integration in the Wallet app. It allows U.S. iPhone users to add their passports to Wallet, with the digital passport able to be used in lieu of a physical passport for domestic travel at TSA checkpoints.
As with state driver's licenses and IDs, Digital IDs will work for age and identity verification in apps, retail store locations, and websites. The option to add a passport to Wallet for use as an ID option will expand digital identification features to many more iPhone users in the U.S., but Apple has not mentioned if the feature will eventually expand to other countries.
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The API does not even pass your age, just if you are over an age that is required. In addition, apps that want the entitlement will need to demonstrate a legal requirement to which they are responding.
Thanks - and that makes sense as long as, as you said, the user has the right to give or not to give all the information being requested.
A passport is a Real ID…
And much easier to get than the star on your license, and far more useful to boot.
Ok, I'll bite - how is it easier to get a passport than to add a star to your license? It's certainly not cheaper.
I mean, not dealing with the DMV should be the obvious answer; the lines, the time sink, the people that don’t know wtf they’re looking at.
Then there’s documentation requirements. You don’t need to provide multiple bills with your address for a passport, you don’t need a raised-seal marriage certificate if you’re a woman that didn’t keep her last name; instead you have one national standard for what’s required. You fill out the application online, pop over to any listed site for a photo, go to a library or county building to sign the online paperwork you filled out with a notary present. Done.
I see - I guess I've been lucky and hadn't had much problems at the DMV and the documentation needed is based on a point system (at least it was when I did it), so you just need a passport and a couple items that show your address. Pretty straight-forward. But I get that not all DMVs are as easy to deal with. But - if we're talking about "time" - one advantage converting your license to Real ID has over getting a passport is the turnaround time: you can usually walk out of the DMV with the new ID. Can't do that with a passport
I'm not trying to diss passports - I actually have two (EU and US) but when I travel inside the US, I usually don't bother bringing a passport since the license is already in my pocket, attached to my phone.
Perhaps to be introduced alongside a (James) Bondi-blue color option?
In order to be granted the entitlement to use the ID verification API, one needs to specify for what purpose one is using the verification and what information is needed. To even qualify at all one needs to be in one of these categories of apps/services:
- Access (Physical Security)
- Air Travel
- Alcohol Purchase (Order Ahead and Delivery)
- Car Rental
- Financial Services
- Gig Economy
- Government Services
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Insurance
- Scooter Rentals
- Ticketing
This is a correct description of the API process.
Apple prevents that. If one is has an app for Alcohol Purchase, one is limited as to what information can be requested (as I recall it is only age >= x). Each category has specific limits as to what can be requested. Again, unlike a physical ID where all information is provided to everyone, this API is substantially better at preserving privacy.
This is precisely my thought. My state has its own app so having the passport on the iPhone wallet is perfect. I want it to come out already lol. People keep saying oh who cares its not for international travel and TSA will screw it up but it has more uses beyond that and the TSA screws everything up...I have an enhanced id and some people seem to think its worse than a REAL ID when it is 10x better lol
The DMV requires a lot more documentation for a REAL ID than the State Department requires for a passport. Birth Certificate, any state ID even if the address is outdated they hand you a sticky note to tape on the back with your current address and that is really it. I had to get a passport to get my Enhanced ID here in NY. Made it a lot easier but the DMV wanted so much damn documentation for that Enhanced ID compared to the passport...you can also get a passport card for you wallet but that wont work for international air travel only land and sea to carribean, canada, mexico, and what not. Passport Book or Passport Card proves citizenship a REAL ID DOES NOT prove citizenship only legal residence...of course my enhanced id has a passport card built in but only 5 states do that.