Apple Wallet has had an order tracking feature for years. Most iPhone users had no idea it existed, and honestly, that made sense because it barely worked.
Retailers had to manually opt in, almost none of them did, and the whole thing quietly sat there collecting digital dust.
iOS 26 now skips the retailers entirely. On-device AI reads your confirmation emails through Apple Mail and pulls the order details straight into Wallet without asking any merchant for permission.
Getting It Running Takes About 90 Seconds
Before anything works, you need Apple Intelligence active on your device and your email account connected to Apple Mail.
Once those are in place, head to Settings, tap Wallet and Apple Pay, then Order Tracking, and flip on the Mail toggle marked Beta. That is the whole setup.
When a new order confirmation lands in your inbox, open that email in Apple Mail and tap the Track button near the top.
You may get a quick security prompt asking for permission, just approve it, and the order flows into Wallet automatically from that point forward.
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Where to Find Everything Once It Is Imported
Inside the Wallet app, tap the three-dot icon at the top right corner. An Orders section will appear showing everything currently in transit alongside a browsable history of past purchases. It is surprisingly clean and easy to scan quickly.
One genuinely useful side effect is notification control. If a retailer app sends borderline spammy alerts, you can mute it entirely and still receive shipping updates through Wallet. That alone has made a noticeable difference in daily phone use.
The feature is not perfect yet. Restaurant mobile orders tend to sneak in, which feels odd next to an Amazon shipment.
If something does not belong, you can delete it and permanently block that merchant from showing up again, so it is easy enough to clean up.
What makes this worth paying attention to is less about order tracking specifically and more about what the approach signals.
Apple found a way to make a broken feature actually useful without relying on outside companies, doing the whole thing locally on the device, so your email data never leaves your phone.
