Apple Wallet's New Boarding Passes Now Supported by United Airlines

[MacRumors]

United Airlines has become the first carrier to support Apple Wallet's enhanced boarding passes in iOS 26, reports 9to5Mac.

Example of new boarding pass features in iOS 26​

Apple added several new features for boarding passes in iOS 26. Previewed at WWDC in June, the features include Live Activities for tracking flights directly from the Lock Screen, airport terminal maps, and Find My integration for luggage tracking.

According to the report's tipster, users must manually enable the Live Activity through the Wallet app – it doesn't activate automatically. Also, when a user shares flight status with others, they see the Live Activity, minus boarding group and seat information.

United joins a growing list of airlines that Apple says is planning to adopt the feature. Others include Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, Lufthansa, Qantas, and Virgin Australia.

Article Link: Apple Wallet's New Boarding Passes Now Supported by United Airlines

 

[DougieS]

Good to see Airlines adopting Apple features promptly unlike some other industries 🙄

Looks like a neat feature too.

 

[nt5672]

I wonder when they will start charging for this service?

 

[Reason077]

Looks almost identical to the boarding passes that British Airways (and others?) have had in Wallet for years now?

 

[ervingv]

Looks almost identical to the boarding passes that British Airways (and others?) have had in Wallet for years now?

I think the new feature is the live activity and not the design of the passes.

 

[machpost]

United has utilized Live Activity on the lock screen for flight tracking for a couple of years now. https://www.futuretravelexperience....chnology-to-improve-customers-travel-journey/

 

[toto75]

Would be nice if they also added the same functionality for train travel, although I guess live tracking would not be available everywhere.

 

[0815]

Just in time for ... I fly Wednesday on a United flight (several connections), lets see how its working Lets see whats different to before.

 

[town3r]

Come on American Airlines!
Let’s see those enhanced Boarding Passes!

 

[Marzzz]

I love all of these new updates, and airline apps keep improving. But for some reason, they continue printing out paper boarding passes for me…?

 

[btrach144]

Anything to make flying easier, I welcome!

 

[agentkow]

To be fair to Air Canada (something I don't normally say), they actually launched this back in September.

 

[seinman]

United has utilized Live Activity on the lock screen for flight tracking for a couple of years now. https://www.futuretravelexperience....chnology-to-improve-customers-travel-journey/

I think the difference is you used to need the app, now you can do it through the boarding pass itself (which can be loaded into wallet off the web, bypassing the app completely). Not sure why you wouldn’t just install the app, making this all a moot point. 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[PhoenixDown]

I love the idea but please be aware that the live updates aren't always accurate. Ask me how I know? %#$@!^$#@!$%

 

[ZipZilla]

This should be an improvement. The old implementation in the Apple wallet almost caused me to miss a flight at DFW a few months ago. I now double/triple check with the native airline app

 

[svish]

Good to see another airline supporting it. Still waiting for airlines in my country to support it.