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iOS 26, Apple simplifies travelers' lives. Flight tracking, airport maps, AirTag: all the new features

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iOS 26, Apple simplifies life for travelers. Flight tracking, airport maps, AirTag: all the new features.

Apple is becoming more and more travel friendly. Yesterday, June 9, 2025, at the usual summer WWDC event, the Cupertino-based company [...]

iOS 26, Apple simplifies travelers' lives. Flight tracking, airport maps, AirTag: all the new features
by Mattia Porcu
June 10, 2025

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Apple is becoming more and more travel friendly. Yesterday, June 9, 2025, in the usual summer meeting of the WWDC the Cupertino-based company unveiled-among other things-the new iPhone operating system, iOS 26. 

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    Developers and more 'aware' (and geeky) users can already download the beta of the software; the final version of the software, however, will be available from from next autumn. Let's find out, meanwhile, the news related to the world of travel. 

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    The system app "Wallet" has been much improved over the years by Apple, and with iOS 26 it becomes - if possible - even more functional. Boarding passes, as is already the case now, will, of course, remain available in the notification screen as long as we land in our destinations; with the new version of iOS, however, the following will be available in the digital ticket new functions (in addition to the flight information already present) such as the button to share the flight tracker, the ability to access the "Maps" to navigate the various airports and use "Where is" to track one's luggage. 

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    Not only that, Wallet, in the notification center, will show the real-time updates of one's flight - as does Flighty, to be clear. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the real 'killer feature', as the good ones say. 

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