[manchmalscott]

The thing I don’t understand about using my phone for identity verification at TSA is that I also need my boarding pass at TSA, which is also on my phone. I can either hand them my drivers license and scan my boarding pass in parallel (fast), hand them a paper boarding pass and maybe use the digital drivers license assuming that airport can support that (waste of paper though), or I can do both on my phone and make the entire interaction take twice as long? What’s the point, genuinely?

[vinay427]

At least with a physical ID document, you don’t also need to provide your boarding pass at many updated TSA checkpoints.

https://www.afar.com/magazine/no-need-to-show-tsa-your-board...

[os2warpman]

At all of the airports I've been to in the last year or two I haven't needed a boarding pass to get through security. Just ID.

That being said every airport I've flown through for the last 2-ish years has had digital IDs or ID scanners so at smaller, or laggard, airports they may still be doing that.

[manchmalscott]

I flew out of PHX Sky Harbor back in February this year, and still needed my boarding pass through security. I’m glad to hear that’s slowly changing though, I’ll be glad when we catch up.