At WWDC earlier this year, Apple unveiled three key upgrades for flight boarding passes in Apple Wallet. Now, shortly after the public launch of iOS 26, United Airlines has added support for the new set of features.
With iOS 26, users on supported airlines will be able to take advantage of enhanced boarding passes in the Wallet app. With these enhanced boarding passes, users can track their flight with a live activity, easily see a map of the airport, and track their checked luggage in the Find My app.
There were a number of airlines that promised to support this feature, and United appears to be the first one. According to Apple, Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Jetstar, Lufthansa, Qantas, Southwest, and Virgin Australia will also support this feature at some point soon.
As it stands currently, you don’t get the live activity by default. According to our anonymous tipster, you have to press a button in the wallet app to add the flight tracker to your lock screen.
Additionally, if you choose to share the flight tracker with your friends, they can also see the same live activity on their lock screen, minus your boarding group and seat number.
All in all, it’s great to see a major airline supporting this feature so soon. Hopefully there’ll be much more to come in the near future.
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