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iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification

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Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification

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Post by xattt »

lbotos wrote: post #8
zitsarethecure wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I fully expect this to gradually become the primary method by which all ID is issued and used. Cell phones are already effectively mandatory to function in our society, so whether you need to target a protest of potential dissidents or an audience of potential customers, it's the perfect one stop shop for our newly emerging highly integrated state+industry power structure.

I had to get my license renewed the other day and I watched an older person pull out a 2000s coolpix digital camera and bring up a picture of the barcode on the screen on the back to sign in. Which, I oddly had respect for.

Sony sold a passport camera that I’ve seen in use these days, and apparently still in demand:

https://www.ebay.ca/b/Sony-DKC-200-299-9x-Digital-Zoom-Digit...

Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification

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Post by toomuchtodo »

SirMaster wrote: post #13

Who uses their passport for domestic travel?

I use a passport card, doesn’t contain my home address and works for age/identity verification and TSA (domestic air travel). With that said, TSA IDEMIA hardware that has to make a passport query to identity proof at a checkpoint is a few seconds slower than a driver's license or Global Entry card if that matters to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport_card

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-pa...

Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification

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Post by toomuchtodo »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #12
pxoe wrote: post #6

Could not come at a worse time politically.

"Could not come at a worse time politically." elaborate on that more

It'll be weaponized against you if you are not a loyalist or you rock the boat.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/chris-krebs-cbp-glob...

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Post by devilbunny »

SirMaster wrote: post #13

Who uses their passport for domestic travel?

People who have a passport card (or book) but don't have another RealID (either because they never bothered, or because their state wanted to charge extra for it). Or, as happened to me once, whose driver's license is expired (only by a couple of days, but that's enough).

Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification

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Post by gabeio »

devilbunny wrote: post #17
SirMaster wrote: post #13

Who uses their passport for domestic travel?

People who have a passport card (or book) but don't have another RealID (either because they never bothered, or because their state wanted to charge extra for it). Or, as happened to me once, whose driver's license is expired (only by a couple of days, but that's enough).

> either because they never bothered, or because their state wanted to charge extra for it

Or because their state barely managed to rolled it out at all and since they already have a passport card it makes no huge difference now. Not arguing just annoyed at my state.

Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification

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Post by gabeio »

csande17 wrote: post #5
bananapub wrote: post #3

Let’s not normalise using your phone, containing all your secrets, as ID. And especially not interacting with it in front of unrestrained representatives of state authority. Just carry a bit of inert - as inert as possible - plastic instead

These days, you'll have to keep the plastic in some kind of metallic sleeve. The RFID chip in US Green Cards, and I imagine passport cards as well, is designed to be readable from across a room.

> I imagine passport cards as well

As someone who has a passport card, I can confirm it definitely has an RFID chip in it. Ironically they come in a protective sleeve.

Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification

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Post by okdood64 »

SirMaster wrote: post #13

Who uses their passport for domestic travel?

2014: Who would not carry their wallet and solely rely on their iPhone to pay for things when running errands?

I understand it's cool to be cynical on HN but: this is a step in the direction for a future world where a lot of countries will let you in with a digital passport.

Now whether you think that's a good thing or not, that's a different story.

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