Apple's new digital ID for air travel
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Okay, so people are all upset about this thing with Apple and your passport, being able to be in your Apple wallet yes and I don't understand why |
| 0:41.3 | people are so up in arms over this no one's being forced to do this right correct it's not like |
| 0:45.8 | you're being held at gunpoint you must upload your passport to your Apple wallet so you would do it |
| 0:52.3 | if you chose to do it of your own free will and volition because you think |
| 0:57.2 | the ease of being able to have it there is better than just having to take a physical passport |
| 1:01.7 | around with you even though it doesn't replace the physical passport it's just like in addition to |
| 1:07.8 | oh wait wait so you can't show that and it counts no you can at 250 different |
| 1:14.5 | tsa checkpoints not every state is allowing it Arizona California Colorado Georgia Hawaii Iowa |
| 1:21.5 | Maryland Montana New Mexico Ohio and Puerto Rico will all accept the Apple digital ID from your Apple wallet. Okay, what are people upset about? If you want to do it, it's not different than the TikTok thing, right? Like you and I've talked about this. I'm never going to be on the TikTok because I don't want to help China. But if you want to be on the TikTok, I'm going to laugh at you and go, that's funny. You're giving all your stuff to China. And I'm going to go about my merry way. But people are like up in arms over Apple. People uploading their passport to their Apple wallet. Why? Well, I think it's because an indication of what's to come. What are the future implications of having a digital ID? We've talked about this in the past. But the government isn't making you do it. No, they're not. These people just |
| 2:03.7 | come off as people who want to find something to be angry about. Rather than, like, if someone chooses to do it, you can go, I don't think that's very wise. And then go, well, it's not me, so I don't really care. But there are people who are just livid about this. |
| 2:18.5 | Yeah. So Apple says that all the passport data will be encrypted on the device. It's protected by your |
| 2:24.0 | face ID or your touch ID. And what you have to do is you have to upload your photo from your physical |
| 2:31.1 | passport. And then on the back of your passport, there's this little embedded chip |
| 2:35.8 | and you have to scan that with your phone. |
| 2:39.0 | And then it will go into your Apple wallet. |
| 2:42.0 | And Apple says they do have future plans |
| 2:43.9 | for expansion with this, |
| 2:46.2 | with business use and also online age verification. |
| 2:50.2 | So I think the concern that people have, |
| 2:53.0 | not only privacy concerns around Apple tracking ID usage, but future implications of what the |
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