Apple Lists 10 Airlines Set to Offer iOS 26's Upgraded Boarding Passes

As we previously reported, iOS 26 enhances Apple Wallet app boarding passes in a few ways. First, the passes now support Live Activities, allowing you to keep track of a flight at a glance on your iPhone's Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro and newer. In addition, new shortcuts below the passes provide one-tap access to Apple Maps for airport directions, and to the Find My app for baggage tracking. And, the Wallet app automatically updates flight details, such as the gate and departure time.

iOS 26 Apple Wallet Boarding Passes
Apple has since announced that the refreshed boarding passes will be available starting with 10 airlines, including Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines, United, Jetstar, Lufthansa, Qantas, and Virgin Australia.

Live Activities support for flights was already available through the Flighty app, so Apple is playing catch up here with the iPhone's built-in Wallet app. Flighty still offers many more features, including the Passport, which lets you keep track of cities that you have flown to, see your total distance traveled, and compare stats with friends.

iOS 26 is available now in developer beta, with a public beta to follow next month.

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Top Rated Comments

mikey918 Avatar
9 months ago
Still gonna use flighty. It’s probably my favorite app.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dustin_ Avatar
9 months ago
where you at alaska?
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ShellBell Avatar
9 months ago

Likely the same for me, I also track family and friends flights with Flighty.
Agreed. It's nice that the wallet app is gaining more functionality, but Flighty is such a great app that there's no way I'm going to stop using it
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AppliedMicro Avatar
9 months ago
But do they pay 30% commission on their airfare prices to Apple?

(For the sake of of fairness vs. other developers, I sure hope they do)
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
techyOS Avatar
9 months ago

Does flighty let you share the live activities with friends and family who don’t have flighty installed and downloaded (nor a subscription?). I feel like this is a game changer feature.
if you want to share your flights on flighty with somebody, you can share a link to them, and they can track basic stats of your flight on their website.

if they do have flighty installed, they can add you as a flighty friend, and all the flights you add will automatically show up on their end, and they'll receive a notification when you add a flight and when your flight lands.

if they have flighty installed AND they pay for flighty pro, they'll be able to see your flight in a live activity.

i guess in terms of live activities, using the new feature in the wallet app works better, but only for select airlines.
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svish Avatar
9 months ago
Good to know. Hopefully more airlines support it. Might take some time though, not expecting it to happen soon.
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