This is shaping up to be a big year for the Wallet app, with upgrades coming to car keys, boarding passes, and passports. But that’s not all: Apple Wallet’s most neglected feature, order tracking, is also getting the fix it’s always needed in iOS 26.
Wallet’s order tracking gets AI upgrade in iOS 26
I suspect the Wallet app may elicit complicated feelings from the team responsible for its development inside Apple.
Why? Because many new Wallet features have depended heavily on getting outside partners signed on. And without those partners, the features aren’t worth much.
Digital IDs, for example, have rolled out slowly over several years as US states have been in no hurry to support the feature.
It’s a similar story for car keys, with automakers not willing to yield control to Apple.
A few years ago, iOS 16 added another Wallet feature you may have never even heard of: order tracking.
Order tracking sought to consolidate key info about your online purchases from various merchants inside Apple Wallet.
The problem? Not many merchants have supported the feature.
Despite being available for years, I just got my first order inside the Wallet app this past December.
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