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
#2and how many places will accept this...
Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification
#3Let’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
Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification
#4and how many places will accept this...
TSA might but the airline and your destination will not.
Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification
#5Let’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.
Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification
#6Could not come at a worse time politically.
Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification
#7Let’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
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.
Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification
#8Let’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
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.
Re: iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for Identity Verification
#9Let’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.
But not from the phone, if you put it the wrong way around.
An iPhone can read the RFID but you have to know that it is NOT where the icon is, but actually on the backside of the hard thick page (or something, I forget).