Delta Now Offers iOS 26's Upgraded Boarding Passes in Apple Wallet

Delta recently added support for iOS 26's upgraded boarding pass experience in the Apple Wallet app, according to MacRumors reader Aaron Binner.

iOS 26 Apple Wallet Boarding Passes
This appears to be a server-side change across all iOS 26 versions.

The upgraded boarding passes have an option to turn on Live Activities, allowing you to keep track of your flight at a glance on your iPhone's Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island. You can also share the Live Activities widget with others.

In addition, new shortcuts provide one-tap access to Apple Maps for airport directions, and to the Find My app for baggage tracking.

Finally, the Wallet app automatically updates flight details, such as the gate and departure time.

United has offered the upgraded boarding passes for at least a month. In June, Apple said eight other airlines would eventually offer them, including Air Canada, American Airlines, JetBlue, Southwest, Lufthansa, Qantas, Virgin Australia, and Jetstar.

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klasma Avatar
10 weeks ago
Apparently this isn’t about the emulator app.
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Simmias Avatar
10 weeks ago
I’d love to know if these new boarding passes finally include accurate gate info. With the old passes in Apple Wallet, gate info was missing or inaccurate 80% of the time. Can anyone confirm?
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Justin Cymbal Avatar
10 weeks ago
This is awesome

I’m from Boston and Delta has one of their main hubs out of Logan so I fly Delta pretty often when I fly to Cleveland to visit my relatives so I’m glad that this new boarding pass is now available on Delta
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LondonAtlas1 Avatar
10 weeks ago

Nice I'm taking a delta flight next Thursday. I hope it works with 26.1
It will!
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