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Apple Announces iPhone Driver's Licenses Will Come to These Additional U.S. States
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But we have... it's called passport.
I don’t understand why everyone talks about handing your phone to a government official, or police officer. When you check out with your Amex at Target do you have to give your phone to the cashier so they can run to the back and process the charges? No.
When it’s eventually rolled out completely and able to be used with police for traffic stops it’s going to be a NFC scan or some other technology just like your credit cards in the Wallet.
On another note. Why did California feel the need to be the only state to brand the ID with the CA DMV logo and that crappy mDL stuff. Every other one is nice and clean. Then we have California that has to mess with everything 🤦♂️
When it’s eventually rolled out completely and able to be used with police for traffic stops it’s going to be a NFC scan or some other technology just like your credit cards in the Wallet.
On another note. Why did California feel the need to be the only state to brand the ID with the CA DMV logo and that crappy mDL stuff. Every other one is nice and clean. Then we have California that has to mess with everything 🤦♂️
The use of which is limited in certain situations requiring ID. We don’t need 50 different drivers licenses or state IDs; merely adds unnecessary governmental cost & hassle for citizens
Good god! People are just not reading all the details regarding how to use these digital driver's license.
One more time: you do NOT hand over the phone. Like other apple wallet entries, you tap your license to a reader the police is suppose to have.
One more time: you do NOT hand over the phone. Like other apple wallet entries, you tap your license to a reader the police is suppose to have.
Illinois just signed HB 4592 to unblock digital IDs. https://www.ilsos.gov/news/2024/august/240809d1.pdf. It looks like after 1/1/2025 they’ll work through testing and implementation.
As for folks uncomfortable with showing your phone to someone, I don’t expect policy will be to hand over a device, just scan it. However, if you ever do get in that situation (I do occasionally for showing info for returns to cashiers or whatnot), I use Guided Access to restrict access to the thing showing. Triple click the power button and choose Guided Access or ask Siri to turn it on. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111795
As for folks uncomfortable with showing your phone to someone, I don’t expect policy will be to hand over a device, just scan it. However, if you ever do get in that situation (I do occasionally for showing info for returns to cashiers or whatnot), I use Guided Access to restrict access to the thing showing. Triple click the power button and choose Guided Access or ask Siri to turn it on. https://support.apple.com/en-us/111795
As I was standing there making weird faces at my phone, I halfway thought this must be a prank.
It doesn’t do any such thing. It has a check sum in the Secure Enclave that validates it as valid and then it transmits info from the device itself. The police just like with a conventional id will call or transmit it on a bar just gets info confirming valid id and your age.
Then your family member is not well trained, or you have misunderstood Illinois law.
Voters who are already registered at their current address in the correct precinct, viewable on computer or printout, do not need an ID when the signature on the sign in log appears to match the signature on file;
When the voter is challenged an ID with the current address is needed;
When registering in person on Election Day, you need 2 forms of ID.
Almost 40 states have a mandatory ID requirement, and the rest more or less follow the above policies.
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I would love to see the US Passport Card added to this.
You think everyone who might scan your ID has a direct line or database that goes to a government? No, not ever true.
Michigan WYD? We put the world on wheels, but can't be among the 1st movers putting a DL or ID in our Apple Wallets ?
Totally agree. Homeland Security should have arranged for this to be among the first of the supported ID types.
It is because the US is a federation.
DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. Never hand your phone to a cop, ever. This literally just came up in the news this week:
www.witn.com
Woman sues police officer for allegedly copying her nude photos during a traffic stop
The police department says they are taking these allegations seriously, and the officer named in the lawsuit no longer works for them.
Unfortunately the supposed-to-be-private Social Security number has been turned into a de-facto national ID.
In any case, it's hard to see the US ever supporting the concept officially.
It is not designed to be handed to someone. It works like ApplePay and is designed to be presented to an identity reader. You unlock with FaceID and present to the reader then confirm the information that will be shared. It doesn’t actually show details on the screen unless you go to settings and tap on “driver license info”
It also not considered a valid drivers license for a traffic stop, for now you’d have to use your physical ID anyway.
I assume the reason for the slow adoption is that new hardware will be required to support it anywhere that wants to accept digital licenses. Same reason ApplePay took forever to be available in majority of locations.
This feature first launched back in March, 2022:
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The rollout has been slow so far but it seems to be picking up pace with a lot of states having added availability (in the last month or so)
I think once California (the largest state in the country and also Apple’s home state) decided to make this feature available (just last month) more states that were considering adding it, ultimately decided to go forward and do so and that is just what this feature needed to continue moving the rollout along
I think that over the next 12 months you’ll see even more states start to make this feature available. It’s the network effect starting to work. It took a while (2.5 years) but it seems to have gotten just what it needed to continue expanding this great feature.
Just like Apple Pay’s slow initial rollout (having launched in 2014) I think that over time, this can certainly become the de facto (and secure) way of proving identity and more people will feel comfortable using it. People’s existing confidence in Apple Pay will also help to facilitate confidence in using driver’s license/ID on their iPhone - especially considering it’s all in one place (the Apple Wallet app)
I think that if the NFC card readers that most businesses currently use (to accept Apple Pay) also could have this feature enabled (for future implementation) that would make it very easy for businesses to add this feature if they wanted to (from within their software) It seems like that would be the best way to expand this feature as it doesn’t require businesses to purchase additional hardware
Hopefully more states continue this rollout and more businesses implement it in their software which it sounds like is continuing to occur according to this article (with CLEAR, MyChart and Uber Eats) so that this feature can become more widespread and useful over time
Apple Launches Driver's License Feature on iPhone in Arizona, More States Coming Soon
Apple today announced that Arizona has become the first U.S. state to support driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app on the iPhone and...
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The rollout has been slow so far but it seems to be picking up pace with a lot of states having added availability (in the last month or so)
I think once California (the largest state in the country and also Apple’s home state) decided to make this feature available (just last month) more states that were considering adding it, ultimately decided to go forward and do so and that is just what this feature needed to continue moving the rollout along
I think that over the next 12 months you’ll see even more states start to make this feature available. It’s the network effect starting to work. It took a while (2.5 years) but it seems to have gotten just what it needed to continue expanding this great feature.
Just like Apple Pay’s slow initial rollout (having launched in 2014) I think that over time, this can certainly become the de facto (and secure) way of proving identity and more people will feel comfortable using it. People’s existing confidence in Apple Pay will also help to facilitate confidence in using driver’s license/ID on their iPhone - especially considering it’s all in one place (the Apple Wallet app)
I think that if the NFC card readers that most businesses currently use (to accept Apple Pay) also could have this feature enabled (for future implementation) that would make it very easy for businesses to add this feature if they wanted to (from within their software) It seems like that would be the best way to expand this feature as it doesn’t require businesses to purchase additional hardware
Hopefully more states continue this rollout and more businesses implement it in their software which it sounds like is continuing to occur according to this article (with CLEAR, MyChart and Uber Eats) so that this feature can become more widespread and useful over time
It's a risk. Like this uninformed woman did, countless others will unlock and hand their phones to the police if asked to do so.DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. Never hand your phone to a cop, ever. This literally just came up in the news this week:
Woman sues police officer for allegedly copying her nude photos during a traffic stop
The police department says they are taking these allegations seriously, and the officer named in the lawsuit no longer works for them.