Apple Announces Businesses Can Accept iPhone IDs Later This Year

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that iPhone users will be able to present a driver's license or ID stored in the Wallet app at participating businesses and venues starting later this year. Users will simply hold their iPhone or Apple Watch near the business's iPhone to verify their age and identity for things like alcohol, rental cars, and more.

Users will be shown what information is being requested and whether the receiving party will be storing the information, according to Apple. Users will then be asked to authenticate and consent by using Face ID or Touch ID. No additional hardware beyond an iPhone is required for the business to offer this functionality.

Apple announced this feature in a press release covering several new services-related features coming to iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17 later this year. Another feature announced includes the ability to set up recurring Apple Cash payments in the Wallet app, on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis.

Article Link: Apple Announces Businesses Can Accept iPhone IDs Later This Year

 

[mystery hill]

Users will then be asked to authenticate and consent by using Face ID or Touch ID.

…or by using Optic ID on Vision Pro?

 

[KaliYoni]

I won’t be needing this much. I just present my face to the bouncer or clerk and they immediately know I’m old enough to enter or to buy. And no privacy concerns!
;-)

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― Marguerite Duras

 

[jmh600cbr]

Ontario, Canada vaguely mentioned support for this coming and then delayed it because of Covid. When is it coming???

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Maybe this will help this feature get off the ground.

 

[Cheesehead Dave]

Great for the three states that have it set up...

 

[warrentotheg]

The push for digital ID continues. ID2020.org

 

[JohnApples]

It’s cool to see the feature get more use but… there’s only 4 states in one country that currently support this… 2 years after the feature was originally unveiled.

That’s a very, very, very small subset of people that will actually get to use this. They really need to focus on getting more states/countries on board.

 

[mystery hill]

Speaking of slow rollouts, when will MacRumors support passkeys?

 

[scottct1]

Connecticut was the first to announce our drivers license would soon be available on our iPhones, yet two years later and not a peep about it.

 

[jaytv111]

But I don’t want to hand my phone over to the bouncer!

/s

 

[unregbaron]

This is great - I hope iPhones can replace passports soon. It’s crazy we still use paper documents.

 

[mattopotamus]

This is great - I hope iPhones can replace passports soon. It’s crazy we still use paper documents.

True, but think of some countries you may visit and their lack of technology. I would always want hard copies of those things.

 

[dontwalkhand]

I won’t be needing this much. I just present my face to the bouncer or clerk and they immediately know I’m old enough to enter or to buy. And no privacy concerns!
;-)

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ETA
“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”
― Marguerite Duras

The original Face ID.

 

[SigurTom]

TSA is a business, right?

 

[Quartz Extreme]

It's encouraging from a privacy standpoint that this seems to adhere to the Principle of Least Privilege, by granting access (on a temporary basis) only for the items required.

It has never sat well with me that businesses (or malicious actors with access to the business's information) could gather, store, and profit from other personally identifiable information under the guise of verifying one's ID. They should receive only the information necessary for that particular transaction, with the consumer fully informed, and nothing more.

 

[Böhme417]

Why does this require iOS 17? Isn’t the transmitting piece already in iOS 16? I’m hoping it’s clarified that only the scanning device will need to be on iOS 17.

 

[sw1tcher]

This is great - I hope iPhones can replace passports soon. It’s crazy we still use paper documents.

I know some people who would rather keep using their paper passports. Imagine visiting a country where a person gets into a situation where their passport is seized. If the passport is your iPhone, wouldn't that mean the seizure of your iPhone?

Example:

Watchdog knocks State over seizures of Americans' passports

The passport grabs exposed a lack of organization in how the department handles alleged passport fraud.

www.politico.com

 

[KaliYoni]

This is great - I hope iPhones can replace passports soon. It’s crazy we still use paper documents.

I know some people who would rather keep using their paper passports.

Plus most passports issued by developed countries now have a RFID chip that duplicates the printed information and contains biometric data (that's why automated border control kiosks are the first step in entering many countries). So passports in Wallet would be redundant in many ways.

 

[zach-coleman]

I wonder if they're ever going to get California on board. Their statement a while back really made it sound like CA wasn't going to allow Apple's implementation.

 

[monster620ie]

pass

 

[echopulse]

Hopefully this moves the ball forward, and more states will start to implement the digital ID's.

 

[dontwalkhand]

True, but think of some countries you may visit and their lack of technology. I would always want hard copies of those things.

Passports are going to be a very tricky one, because you kind of need the entire world to cooperate. They can't even get the rest of the world to just accept passport cards yet, and the airlines flat out refuse them for international travel.

 

[123jmail]

I can't help but be wary here. Someone else controls my identity and by utilizing some privileges that I don't control, my identity can be altered or even deleted without any assent from me. Scary stuff for the future and it seems the future is now.

 

[RevTEG]

This is great - I hope iPhones can replace passports soon. It’s crazy we still use paper documents.

Totally agree, but I really enjoying collecting entry stamps and visas in my passport. I guess it's kind of silly, but I hope future digital versions support some kind of stamps.