Apple Wallet's New Boarding Passes Now Supported by United Airlines

United Airlines has become the first carrier to support Apple Wallet's enhanced boarding passes in iOS 26, reports 9to5Mac.

iOS 26 Apple Wallet Boarding Passes

Example of new boarding pass features in iOS 26

Apple added several new features for boarding passes in iOS 26. Previewed at WWDC in June, the features include Live Activities for tracking flights directly from the Lock Screen, airport terminal maps, and Find My integration for luggage tracking.

According to the report's tipster, users must manually enable the Live Activity through the Wallet app – it doesn't activate automatically. Also, when a user shares flight status with others, they see the Live Activity, minus boarding group and seat information.

United joins a growing list of airlines that Apple says is planning to adopt the feature. Others include Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, Lufthansa, Qantas, and Virgin Australia.

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Top Rated Comments

ervingv Avatar
17 weeks ago

Looks almost identical to the boarding passes that British Airways (and others?) have had in Wallet for years now?
I think the new feature is the live activity and not the design of the passes.
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DougieS Avatar
17 weeks ago
Good to see Airlines adopting Apple features promptly unlike some other industries ?

Looks like a neat feature too.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
0815 Avatar
17 weeks ago
Just in time for ... I fly Wednesday on a United flight (several connections), lets see how its working :) Lets see whats different to before.
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btrach144 Avatar
17 weeks ago
Anything to make flying easier, I welcome!
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nt5672 Avatar
17 weeks ago
I wonder when they will start charging for this service?
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ZipZilla Avatar
17 weeks ago
This should be an improvement. The old implementation in the Apple wallet almost caused me to miss a flight at DFW a few months ago. I now double/triple check with the native airline app
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