My friend's phone died while we were out in NYC, during one of the times with partial Covid restrictions. It was funny at first but then it stopped being funny because we really couldn't do a single thing together!
Charge phone at a Starbucks? Can't enter, his vaccination card was on his phone!
Slightly better now, but this is really an over reliance and the ubuiquity of having a phone. I get they are doing some sort of fallback with the OMNY machines, but I know how these contracts are cut.