Apple Expands iPhone Driver's License Feature to 10th Location

[jedimasterkyle]

This was just announced here in Idaho for release with iPhone 82 at WWDC 2089

As a fellow Idahoan, I echo this sentiment. You can guarantee that Idaho will be hell bent to roll this out as slowly as possible and they'll be kicking and screaming the entire time about it.

 

[DrTek]

Still not able to add a passport like Google.
One would have thought that Apple would have been all over this.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Glad to see it gaining momentum finally. California already had a somewhat janky state-run digital ID app but the Apple implementation is way cleaner. (Although most of the recent times I’ve transited LAX, I haven’t had to take my ID out at all. There’s a facial-recognition option at the TSA checkpoint that bypasses all that.)

Option? I recently flew in the west (not in CA) and both airports required you to use it. They didn’t even ask, it was just “please look into the camera.” I’ve got TSA precheck too.

 

[mannyvel]

I think it's more a matter of installing the necessary hardware at the checkpoints.

Usually enterprise deployments don't turn things on until every location has the appropriate equipment. TSA is rolling it out incrementally - which in my experience is unusual. And it's not rolling out to every airport in the supported states - just a few.

 

[drtaru]

Apple Wallet app IDs can be used at select TSA checkpoints within select U.S. airports:

The times I've flown through some of these airports with my MD mobile ID and asked about it I have been denied it's use because invariably the single station with the scanner is not in use.

 

[Anijake]

be careful leaving your drivers license at home if you plan to rent a car at your destination. Don't think there are any car rental companies that accept them yet.

 

[ZipZilla]

I feel like this is a solution without a problem. I guess it would be handy if I lost my plastic driver's license. I just don't see the utility.

 

[jlwarlow]

DVLA in the UK were looking into Digital Driving license back in 2016 https://www.ukconstructionmedia.co....are working on,Wood, CCS Insight analyst said: No news since. It would be good if they re-visited this now Apple support it.

 

[MadDog31]

Massachusetts checking in...hello? MA...you there, fam? Hellooooooo... :-/

My wife lost her physical license (MagSafe popped loose—oopsie on her part). A digital version would be helpful while she waits for the new physical copy.

Someday...someday.

 

[ifxf]

Useless feature, I will always carry a physical license since I am not handing my phone over to anyone. I have pictures and driver number and exp date recorded in my password manager for when the IRS asks for it during filing.

 

[clibinarius]

Of course New York is so bad at governing they dont have this option yet. What the hell is going on in NYS DOT and the NY DMV

We aren’t getting it. NYS has a contract with a company already: verification doesn’t work, accessing it requires unlocking your phone, and it’s in a standalone app. It is so, so awful. It doesn’t integrate with any wallets.

In 2022 there was a scandal that NYS was meeting with Apple executives. Why was it a scandal? Because it’s NYS. Someone complained, someone demagogued it, so it went through the usual procurement to satisfy dubious demands under a cloud of secrecy.

I could blame individuals for this situation but don’t feel like naming names. As a result, IDEMIA, which I’m presuming is French for Idea Missing in Action and whose logo is almost a stylized part of the female anatomy, got it and the splash screen says “MID New York” which is correct. This is as MID as it gets and no one’s gonna use it. And this isn’t to criticize IDEMIA as a firm or say they’re bad. They’re just doing it to the RFP that some moron in Albany designed. I see no evidence they wrote the RFP (companies writing their RFP from time to time happens).

It’s so, so bad because it doesn’t play nice with any ecosystem and not what anyone in NY wanted. IDEMIA might and hopefully fixes this; we’ll see. It’s possible we never get this however. But it’s not that we’re doing nothing, we’re actively preventing it stateside.

 

[H3boy]

This is the slowest rollout of any function ever.

Because it's not up to Apple to roll it out.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

How does this rollout actually work?

Does Apple have to write code on their side for each individual state? Do states need to have code written on their side?

Or is it all ready to rollout in every state and Apple just needs each state to pass a law saying it’s legal?