Delta Now Offers iOS 26's Upgraded Boarding Passes in Apple Wallet

[MacRumors]

Delta recently added support for iOS 26's upgraded boarding pass experience in the Apple Wallet app, according to MacRumors reader Aaron Binner.

This appears to be a server-side change across all iOS 26 versions.

The upgraded boarding passes have an option to turn on Live Activities, allowing you to keep track of your flight at a glance on your iPhone's Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island. You can also share the Live Activities widget with others.

In addition, new shortcuts provide one-tap access to Apple Maps for airport directions, and to the Find My app for baggage tracking.

Finally, the Wallet app automatically updates flight details, such as the gate and departure time.

United has offered the upgraded boarding passes for at least a month. In June, Apple said eight other airlines would eventually offer them, including Air Canada, American Airlines, JetBlue, Southwest, Lufthansa, Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Jetstar.

Article Link: Delta Now Offers iOS 26's Upgraded Boarding Passes in Apple Wallet

 

[Justin Cymbal]

This is awesome

I’m from Boston and Delta has one of their main hubs out of Logan so I fly Delta pretty often when I fly to Cleveland to visit my relatives so I’m glad that this new boarding pass is now available on Delta

 

[MNGR]

Flew American this weekend. The AA app already supported live.
And that was before 26.2

 

[klasma]

Apparently this isn’t about the emulator app.

 

[Toodles7]

Does this include the tickets in the wallet app going away sometime after the flight occurs? Or do you still have to manually delete them?

 

[ohaishawnn]

I flew delta on Saturday and had the new boarding pass design, not on 26.1 beta either.

 

[Le Big Mac]

Does this include the tickets in the wallet app going away sometime after the flight occurs? Or do you still have to manually delete them?

That must be airline dependent, because nearly all of mine move automatically to expired passes after a few days.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Nice I'm taking a delta flight next Thursday. I hope it works with 26.1

 

[LondonAtlas1]

26.2 not required. Currently on a delta flight and just updated to the new pass.

 

[Simmias]

I’d love to know if these new boarding passes finally include accurate gate info. With the old passes in Apple Wallet, gate info was missing or inaccurate 80% of the time. Can anyone confirm?

 

[LondonAtlas1]

Nice I'm taking a delta flight next Thursday. I hope it works with 26.1

It will!

 

[LondonAtlas1]

I’d love to know if these new boarding passes finally include accurate gate info. With the old passes in Apple Wallet, gate info was missing or inaccurate 80% of the time. Can anyone confirm?

Yes, well.. for my current flight it is but I’m already seated so I don’t expect it to change.

 

[Böhme417]

I’m curious where the tracking info is from. I’m getting tired of the inaccuracy of Flighty.

 

[mdatwood]

I’d love to know if these new boarding passes finally include accurate gate info. With the old passes in Apple Wallet, gate info was missing or inaccurate 80% of the time. Can anyone confirm?

I’ve found it depends on the airline. It’s up to them to update the gate on the pass in wallet. Delta’s live activity/wallet pass were behind the others until this change.

 

[lofin]

Delta always leads the pack when it comes to technology adoption.

 

[Rozellev]

Flight was almost 4 hours delayed today, and it still did update the correct departure time on the united one.

 

[IslesFan]

Looks like delta revered back to the old style passes for the meantime. Sounds like there was an issue with the departure time and pre check indicator.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Apparently this isn’t about the emulator app.

The only Delta I personally use. 😀