New TSA rules for IPhone 6s plus and IPad

[athreyaindyan]

Does anyone know the accurate position on TSA rules for JFK and IAD?

Can one carry an unopened , still wrapped in plastic, factory sealed IPhone 6s plus and Ipad Air through TSA screening without taking it out of the box?

Or does one have to take it out and show that it turns on?

 

[Small White Car]

It's been a few months, but the last time I was at IAD they were only making you turn on laptops, iPads could stay in the bag.

I know things change, though, so this advice is only good until someone with a more recent experience shows up.

 

[hovscorpion12]

I placed my iPad in my carry on. Last time i went to the airport with my iPad, placed carry on in bin and kept walking.

 

[athreyaindyan]

thanks...im asking about an "unopened" brand new sealed Iphone /Ipad please

 

[yaboyac29]

it's fine OP. leave it sealed.

 

[btrach144]

they reserve the right to make you open it. ever heard the line, "don't wrap you gifts before you fly?"

 

[hutrebug]

You can let the TSA goons fondle you and they'll be lenient about your gadgets.

 

[athreyaindyan]

ok i carried an unopened brand new ipad mini yesterday at JFK and went through...they didnt even ask me to take it out

 

[bugelrex]

It still goes through the xray... what is the technical reason TSA force people to turn on laptops and other stuff? Terrorists are too dumb to stuff a bomb in a functioning laptop or the TSA is too dumb to know what they are doing?

 

[digitard]

They rarely force you to turn anything on anymore. I just flew from Phx to DET, and then DET to Chicago to Phx again (due to a flight cancel) and none of the times through security did they make me turn anything on... they haven't in any work trip I've had to take the past few years.

They do make you remove your laptop from your bag, and put it in its own bin... but ipads/tablets can be left in the bag (Surface Pro's qualify as tablets as I didn't have to remove mine, but I did my Macbook Pro) and phones/etc just get tossed in the "all your pocket crap" bin.

Never in the past 10 times through TSA checkpoints can I remember them touching / powering anything.

 

[th3r3ds0x]

I've gone through TSA several times with both iPad and iPhone in carry on and have never had to power them up.

 

[AlliFlowers]

They don't make you remove (or power on) anything with SSD. You have never needed to remove iPhone, iPad, or MBA.

 

[blue2k2s2k]

First of all, finding a TSA agent that knows what an iPhone is, that's rare.

Finding a TSA agent that speaks clear english to ask you to open the box, even more rare.

....and if you are a dude packing a rose gold iPhone, be prepared to explain your ****............

 

[Bryan Bowler]

They don't make you remove (or power on) anything with SSD. You have never needed to remove iPhone, iPad, or MBA.

I fly, a lot. Evertime I fly, they want me to take my rMBP out of my backpack even though it has an SSD. I know the rules say that only spinning hard drives have to be taken out of the backpack, but how they enforce the rule is an entirely different matter.