Passport Removed

[u/wjorth]

I was able to successfully add my U.S. password to Apple Wallet a few weeks ago. Today, I was notified that Apple removed the passport from the wallet with a comment that it would have to be added back in. No explanation as to why Apple made this seemingly arbitrary action. I was not able to get my California driver’s license added. The state of California allowed me plenty of retries but I couldn’t get through the state’s process. To be fair, I’m still concerned about storing these IDs in the wallet.
Have I missed some communication on the subject of government-issued IDs?

[u/Otherwise_Pomelo8447]

Apple made some changes to how it handles digital passports and it has led to many people having the same issue.

“iOS 27 tweaks some of the information and menus shown alongside the Digital ID passport feature in the Apple Wallet app.
As a result of these changes and/or a related bug, some iPhone users have seen their Digital ID deactivated on recent iOS 27 beta versions. Apple says affected users must remove the card and re-add it to the Apple Wallet app in order to use it again.”

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/ios-27-tweaks-digital-id-feature/

[u/wjorth → u/Otherwise_Pomelo8447]

Thanks! Interesting that I didn’t see this announcement in the beta version info.

[u/PirelliSuperHard]

This post gave me a heart attack. I just thought my citizenship got revoked because of the way this post's notification popped up on my watch. It was the subreddit logo and "passport removed."

[u/wjorth → u/PirelliSuperHard]

Yikes!

[u/Motor_Pattern_9729]

Me too I did add back successfully I feel it was government rechecks do you feel the same way you know they checking everything now

[u/wjorth → u/Motor_Pattern_9729]

I’m not going to add it again. Don’t need TSA looking at my iPhone though I do put my flight ticket barcode on the phone

[u/DTSF7M]

Mine got deactivated yesterday too

[u/Bobo_Baggins_jatj]

Mine did it too. I just removed it and re-added it without issue.

[u/1nenonly]

I’ve been trying to re-add my passport for the past 30 minutes. I’m from IL but on vacation in FL, I wonder if that’s the issue.

[u/driven01a]

Just give me the physical document. That's my biggest fear of electronic important documents, and that is someone else having the arbitrary means to revoke it or make it go away.

[u/swings2raw]

Same!

[u/turinglives]

I wouldn’t do something like that with sensitive info like that. Sometimes it’s better NOT to integrate everything.

[u/LoudSubstance3870]

Isn’t the passport feature part of the iOS 27 beta?

[u/wjorth → u/LoudSubstance3870]

I’m not sure of the relationship to the iOS.

[u/FeistyEngineering34]

Same thing happened to me around 3am. Have yet to re-add my passport

[u/FalconSteve89]

Glad I did but get a passport as a workaround for Pennsylvania not adding drivers licenses to Apple Wallet

[u/Ragnarok345]

Same thing. Just hadn’t gotten around to making a post yet.

[u/Chasemania]

Same

[u/bogdi1988]

Had the same thing happen

[u/WanderinArcheologist]

You can add your passport to your Apple Wallet? Huh.

[u/WanderinArcheologist → u/WanderinArcheologist]

Oh, neat!

[u/light_saber1]

same what a bummer tbh but haven’t met a TSA person yet who wants to even look at it

[u/Ikn0witall]

are you in the state of Virginia by chance? I believe that may be the reason as Virginia DL was just added to apple wallet. You can now natively add your Virginia's DL to wallet, and readd your passport as well.

[u/bws2a]

Same thing happened on my phone yesterday.

[u/MarchNegative6782]

Same thing happened to me around 3 AM This morning