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Makes sense that some people will not be a fan of this.

Personally however this would be awesome. It is extremely rare I don’t have my phone. already any passport control area is digitally scanning my passport so there is not really more privacy concerns. In addition I imagine a lot of us use the plane ticket features of iphone already, so not having to also separately get my ID out would be great.

Seems like this is long overdue.

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From what I've heard about TSA I'd already hesitate bringing my main phone to the US at all, let alone one that's connected with my ID. And what if the phone dies during a trip? Now you've got the 2FA problem but with borders instead of just a Gmail login. Fantastic.

I don't think saving a few grams of paper is worth all that.

I think you mean CBP not TSA, but point stands. CBP has broad authority to conduct searches at the border.

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