Apple Wallet now stores digital hotel keycards, starting with Hyatt hotels

(Pocket-lint) - At WWDC 2021 successful June, Apple said iOS 15 and watchOS 8 would let iPhone and Apple Watch owners, respectively, to store integer edifice keys connected their devices. Little other has been said astir the diagnostic since, but now, it appears to beryllium going live, starting with Hyatt Hotels.

Apple users tin present store a integer mentation of their edifice keycard to the Apple Wallet app, frankincense enabling them to usage their iPhone oregon Apple Watch to summation introduction to their locked edifice rooms. At launch, Hyatt announced it is supporting the diagnostic successful six hotels crossed the US. 

You tin adhd a keycard to Apple Wallet straight from a edifice provider’s app.

Once you bash so, clasp up your iPhone oregon Apple Watch to your edifice room's NFC-enabled doorway fastener to unlock it. You tin adhd a keycard to Apple Wallet astatine immoderate constituent aft reserving a room, but it won’t unlock the country until your check-in time. You besides inactive request to check-in astatine the beforehand table earlier you tin adjacent usage it.

Apple's integer keycard diagnostic besides supports Express Mode successful Apple Wallet. That means you won’t request to authenticate your individuality utilizing Face ID oregon Touch ID each clip to unlock your room. And if your instrumentality should ever participate Power Reserve Mode, you tin inactive usage your instrumentality arsenic a keycard for up to 5 hours. Apple besides said its Wallet app volition auto-archive your cardinal erstwhile you cheque out. 

The six Hyatt locations wherever you tin present usage your iPhone oregon Apple Watch to store a keycard are:

• Andaz Maui astatine Wailea Resort successful Maui
• Hyatt Centric Key West Resort and Spa successful Key West
• Hyatt House Chicago/West Loop-Fulton Market successful Chicago
• Hyatt House Dallas/Richardson successful Garland, Texas
• Hyatt Place Fremont/Silicon Valley successful Silicon Valley
• Hyatt Regency Long Beach successful Long beach

Hyatt yet plans to rotation retired enactment for each locations globally. Plus, adjacent year, Apple Wallet volition statesman storing government-issued IDs.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 9 December 2021.