Using your phone as your passport.. Would you do it?

[bighal]

I've just seen a clip on the BBC website showing how the UK Border Force is considering using facial recognition and your phone to cut queues at immigration. Basically you just walk through a passage way lined with cameras.
bbc/news/av/techno...rt-queue-times

Would you use or trust the system if it does become available?

[Scaramouche]

No! But I don’t use boarding passes on my phone either. I like to have physical copies.

[Kd0758]

I’m assuming but if it’s just the UK border force surely you’d still need to take your actual passport anyway because if you’re flying abroad they may not have the technology?

I don’t see the US catching on because you’re not even allowed your phone on in the immigration hall.

I suppose it’d be good as a backup but too many things can go wrong with a phone for me to trust it 100% as my only source of being able to get home.

[hideinpockets]

I’d love this! I have my boarding pass on my phone and it’s quite irritating having to have a passport as well. I’ve actually been saying for years it would be great if we can get it on our phones etc.

[princessgem]

I can’t imagine it would work too well for my OH his iPhone runs out of battery within 6 hours 😂

[skalexander]

I am so clumsy with phones - they've been dropped in the bath, dropped on the floor, run over by a car (yes really), so there's no way I'd have my Passport on one!

[silverfox46]

Originally Posted by princessgem

I can’t imagine it would work too well for my OH his iPhone runs out of battery within 6 hours 😂

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Originally Posted by skalexander

I am so clumsy with phones - they've been dropped in the bath, dropped on the floor, run over by a car (yes really), so there's no way I'd have my Passport on one!

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Ladies... both your posts are so relevant to me. My phone is always on charge , even changed the battery but not much better and too tight to buy a new phone.

With one phone I fell into a lake and fully submerged with phone in pocket whilst in the Lake District. Dried it out successfully overnight 🤗 and gobsmacked it worked , only to drop it down a toilet a couple of days later 😩.
It’s a no from me then 😂

[Tinkerbell]

NO.

several reasons. I don’t trust technology to be safe re hacking etc

I can foresee issues on the day... try using the bloody BA app for a boarding card etc. Always failing.

Lost phone, nicked phone, dropped phone , broken phone


Love technology but sometimes just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should.

[cartoonp]

Yes but you still need passport as backup

[claireyfairy8]

I would use this for sure.

Great idea.

I use my phone for all of boarding passes etc but I do find that I'm carrying around battery packs etc. so I'd like apple to get a better battery life please!