Apple Confirms iOS 26 Wallet Passport Feature is Coming in 2025

[plisskenetic]

So if we upgrade to the worst user interface redesign iOS has ever had, we might get the ability to store our passports in our digital wallets later this year?

Hard pass. For the first time ever, I've turned off Automatic Updates to avoid Liquid Glass.

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??

 

[257Loner]

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??

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.

 

[The_Auryn]

I believe digital ID isn't to mimic a Passport book, but a Passport card. A Passport Card (the size of a credit card) fits in your wallet and does everything a Real ID does, plus lets you land-cross into Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

 

[bmark]

Um, no. Right now, you only need a Real ID for commercial air travel. It is not required for interstate travel by car, train, or boat. Oy...

I'm talking about air travel! I wasn't born yesterday.

 

[Böhme417]

I'm talking about air travel! I wasn't born yesterday.

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.

 

[matsan]

Hard pass. For the first time ever, I've turned off Automatic Updates to avoid Liquid Glass.

Thanks for that reminder! Off here as well now.

 

[twolf2919]

Nor would you be able to travel internationally without it…


What the point is, though, is very clearly provided - “the digital passport able to be used in lieu of a physical passport for domestic travel at TSA checkpoints.”

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.

 

[twolf2919]

I don’t like the ease that this makes it for websites to check ID. Eventually every web signup will ask to see your ID to confirm your identity.

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.

 

[JaydenA]

What I do expect - and actually hope for - is that they create some sort of standard age verification API that web sites can use.

Seems to force people to only use sanctioned phones and computers then, doesn't it?

 

[ifxf]

Digital IDs are a solution in search of a problem.