In iOS 26, Apple is implementing a brand new Digital ID function that builds on integration for Driver’s Licenses within the Pockets app. Beginning this fall, Apple Pockets will permit iPhone customers so as to add a U.S. passport that can be utilized in lieu of a bodily passport for home journey.
The Digital ID may be saved on the iPhone or the Apple Watch, and it may be used at choose TSA checkpoints all through the USA. It’s Actual ID compliant, as a passport may be introduced as an alternative of a Actual ID when touring.
Digital IDs don’t exchange bodily passports, and Apple warns that they can’t be used for worldwide journey or border crossings. In these conditions, a bodily passport will probably be required, however for home journey, iPhone customers will not want to tug out a passport and may as an alternative cross via TSA checkpoints faster.
As with state driver’s licenses and IDs, Digital IDs will work for age and id verification in apps, retail retailer areas, and new in iOS 26, web sites. The choice so as to add a passport to Pockets to be used as an ID choice will increase digital identification options to many extra iPhone customers.
U.S. states and territories have been slowly rolling out assist for IDs within the Pockets app, however it’s nonetheless restricted to Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, and Puerto Rico.
Apple is including different travel-friendly options to the Pockets app. There’s an overhauled boarding cross expertise that gives customers with a Dwell Exercise overview of their flight and real-time updates. Boarding passes additionally supply choices to go to Maps for an airport overview, and Discover My for monitoring baggage.
Apple is partnering with airways to implement the up to date boarding passes, and these airways would be the first to assist the function: Air Canada, American Airways, Delta Air Traces, JetBlue, Jetstar, Lufthansa Group, Qantas, Southwest Airways, United Airways, and Virgin Australia.
