Apple Delays iOS 15 Feature for Adding Your Driver's License to Your iPhone Until Early 2022

thejadedmonkey said:
Blame Apple's culture, management, and the like, not working from home. I work for a hospital's app development team and we've been more productive since they sent everyone home, not less.
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1 hospital team vs a global corporation with partnerships that more than likely dwarf your hospitals'.

Still glad you're being productive as well as colleagues at the hospital - that's a necessity in any day/age and although I'm not in your location, for the human race I'm VERy greatful.
 
BurgDog said:
I'm curious how Apple Wallet will work with the needs for using an ID and if Apple has even considered the practical issues.
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I'm sure with all the programmers, engineers, research & development, etc. that Apple has on hand, someone over there has thought about the practical issues and logistics of this in far more detail than most. Those are pretty basic questions to ask really.
 
Boo.

When is State of IL jumping on board?

I also worry this will be abused by all sorts of businesses & government as the new form or "papers please", and will try to next tie-in medical requirements which are unjust.
 
Delayed not shocked. Working with state governments always a delay, earlier 2022 more like summer or late 2022.

I’ll use this for TSA but I’ll pass of handing or pulling out my phone for law enforcement. I’ll stick to the card ID for that
 
miamialley said:
Right, like that Apple wireless charge pad thing.

Do you have to give your phone to the police? How does it actually work? Would be ideal if they could just scan your ID with a QR code and you never lose physical possession of your phone...that I can't be okay with.
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Maybe you should try to read the article before panicking.
 
DeepIn2U said:
1 hospital team vs a global corporation with partnerships that more than likely dwarf your hospitals'.

Still glad you're being productive as well as colleagues at the hospital - that's a necessity in any day/age and although I'm not in your location, for the human race I'm VERy greatful.
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We're no Apple, granted, but our system does take in ~65 million dollars per day. I'd like to think we are a few steps above a fly-by-night shop.
 
If I had to venture a guess, this is is to secure a nationwide roll out of the feature.

Apple doesn't want to release it to just a handful of states, just to have to convince more people later to adopt it.

Hey, look, RI is finally on board! Now DE and CA? PA? No. Why does that person from MD get to send their ID info to TSA to get on a flight while I fumble with my card, my belt, and my shoes? CRAP! I dropped my card? Where did it go? I can buy new shoes when my flight lands. Without my ID, I'm screwed.

Too much confusion. So, to get it to work right the first time, Apple probably went back to the DMV's in the states that were lagging, negotiated with them to help bring their technology up to date so that they could make this work nationwide and needed more time to make that happen.

So the delay time is the time Apple thinks it needs to bring the remaining laggard states on line so the rollout is nationwide, along with TSA so it all happens at the same time.

People see others zapping their ID info to TSA at the airport and don't have to say "Well, I can't get that yet" they can say "I want that".

Apple has it, others don't. It will drive sales significantly. Getting it right and nationwide from go will be a huge get, and is worth the wait from all aspects.

I just got back from a cruise that included a domestic flight. How nice it would have been to use my phone like Apple pay to send my ID to the TSA checker instead of fumbling with my ID. Not having to worry about losing it. On the same device that has my boarding pass
 
dantracht said:
Delays delays and more delays.
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MR users: Apple really needs to stop with the yearly releases, and just release features when they’re ready, not on a designated “every September” timeline.
Apple: begins rolling out features more slowly over a yearly timeframe with X.1, X.2, etc releases so that they don’t have to stuff everything into the initial release.
MR users: apple really needs to stop delaying things and get everything out in September like they promised.
Honestly people, especially for a feature like this, it’s going to take a while.
And rather it launched in December 2021 or January 2022, it’s not gonna make that big of a difference so maybe just sit tight until your state supports it.
 
I'd love to be able to use the Wallet app, but at least we have a government app that carries every single piece of ID (National ID card, Driver's License, Registration, Vehicle Insurance, Medical Insurance, COVID Vaccination status). I haven't used my wallet in months.
 
gwhizkids said:
And then, if they ship a product that's not ready for prime time, all we'll hear is about how Apple rushes incomplete features to the market and how Apple is not like it used to be.... :rolleyes:
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Apple hasn’t been the way they used to be in ages. Once they released the iPhone 6. They began to think they could do no wrong. From bendable phones to spying on your pics and messages.
 
GuilleA said:
I'd love to be able to use the Wallet app, but at least we have a government app that carries every single piece of ID (National ID card, Driver's License, Registration, Vehicle Insurance, Medical Insurance, COVID Vaccination status). I haven't used my wallet in months.
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I’d rather not allow apple to see my medial records and other personal records. In fact I keep that stuff off my phone.
 
AndenIDK said:
Its supported in Denmark, and has been for a year orso + other official documents.. But provided through an app though
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Everyone keeps mentioning this. The same US states offering this already offer it through an app. Including mine, Arizona.

The point is we don’t want it in an app, we want it in Wallet with the other cards.
 
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I'm not as pessimistic as some others here.

I have the vaccination card in my Apple Wallet and it seems to me that they worked out those details quickly enough.

Drivers license doesn't have the same urgency but long term it will have a great deal more value.
 
munpip214 said:
Considering how there are still states that didn’t do exposure notifications I don’t expect this to take off too fast. Governments are notorious for using decade old technology.
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Just a decade? That would be an improvement!
Most US state (and federal) governmental offices are still kicking and screaming about going beyond 1999. Don't ask how often I'm still asked to fax documents...
 
What is the practical benefit of having the card in the Wallet in the first place? And for an iPhone only feature. How much training and equipment will be required for all the locations that require a valid ID for them to be able to legally accept it - places that, by law, must check for IDs and verify they are valid, not fake. Think of liquor stores and places that serve liquor. Will they need an NFC reader of some sort to check ID. Who pays for that and the training for all those employees for an Apple only feature. What laws need to be changed to permit this form of ID. What is the benefit over checking the physical ID with security features they already have been trained to look for. For all practical purposes ID in Apple Wallet is a fun feature with little real value when most of the places that need to see an ID won't or legally can't accept it.

If this were built on existing NFC ID validator readers and infrastructure such as was done for credit cards, this would make a lot more sense. The readers would need to be fairly wide spread though for any real user benefit. No way any location looking for a valid ID will trust a picture on a phone as being valid without some legally acceptable validation.
 
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