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

Re:iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for ... by csande17 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:41AM (#44298428)

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.

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Re:iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for ... by bombcar on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @09:04AM (#44298683)

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).

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Re:iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for ... by gabeio on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @10:47AM (#44299937)

> 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.

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Re:iOS 26 Will Let You Add Your U.S. Passport to Wallet for ... by jmhammond on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:31PM (#44300974)

Did you ever try scanning it with one of those passport checker apps? I tried this morning after reading this thread and couldn’t get it to work

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