Having it on the phone is not mutually exclusive with having a physical passport, and either can be stolen from your person, your room, or even a hotel vault. I wonder how many people already have an image of their passport in the cloud in case the physical passport gets stolen (at least they can apply for an emergency replacement that way). Also, I think hacking a phone with biometrics to access a passport would be harder than altering a physical passport, but then again maybe I've watched too many Cold War spy films.
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iPhone Driver's License Feature in Wallet App Now Available in Georgia
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Thanks to both of you! I’ll go add my passport to my iPhone right now. 😉 And silly me, I’ll stop worrying about having my phone stolen, since anything else could also be stolen.
These electronic things are meant for the most part to augment your physical ID. You can't rely on the iPhone wallet ID quite yet, the readers don't always work. So they recommend you have the plastic ID when you travel. This will be the case for many years.
Oh and passports aren't electronic yet. They have this: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-control but you still need your passport, it just transmits your number and name and customs info to CBP, they still need to scan your passport.
Over the long term maybe we'll be able to go wallet free, one thing that might work is even if you lose your phone, use your watch, Apple Watch can have the driver's license on it too. So you can have redundancy. Just keep the Watch charged.
I would think it would take time. I'm surprised my old state of Arizona jumped on it so fast to be honest.
to whom may having the same issue as me showing warnings with "additional verification required", I got a letter from GA DDS today with the verification code printed on and sent to my physical address, I put it in at the account portal for a verification and my Digital ID has been issued to my iPhone on Apple Wallet. 🧐🧐🧐🧐
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I got the verification letter - folded hard paper stock with remove zip thing.
yup. and once you register your ID on devices, there will be another letter of "device registration confirmed" coming in with the same format, per device... I got three letters in a day (two phones and a watch)
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What a disaster. I just got service unavailable - contact Georgia DDS.
Colorado has an electronic representation of the real license.
Georgia is riddled with corrupt lazy morons.
Flying out of ATL to LAX, tmrw., and will use my ID in Wallet.
I'll give a mini-review, when I can.
I'll give a mini-review, when I can.
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if you have more than 3 devices active, it may require to do paper mail verification code again for the next activation. I had 2 iPhones and 1 apple watch activated, then had to wait for another very annoying paper mail verification code to arrive when I added apple watch ultra.
if you have more than 3 devices active, it may require to do paper mail verification code again for the next activation. I had 2 iPhones and 1 apple watch activated, then had to wait for another very annoying paper mail verification code to arrive when I added apple watch ultra.
I just tripped to LAX from ATL (and back), and the Digital ID Thingie (as spectacularly well-designed as a digital 'card' may be, residing in my Wallet) was entirely un-necessary (and not welcomed).
Turns-out that only those who are subbed to TSA Pre+ can use the Digital ID on their flights.
It, basically, just helps me feel cool-kid, and stuff
One phone, and one watch . . . immediately added to my Wallet on the iPhone (with a two-week-later paper edge-fold telling me the same; never could get it active on my Watch.
last fall I was eager to use it at my nearby airport...but the guy said "it isn't working today...it's broken all the time"
This summer I was going to use it at another airport and I read the signs and had my device in properly, it started to work but the lady said "no, flip it over and move it there..." and then nothing happened and with a LONG line and only one TSA agent checking IDs I just handed my license over.
My wife said, "I dont know why you are trying to use that. there aren't enough places that accept it anyway" ....and that's precisely the point, the more we try and can use it the more it becomes familiar to all around.
This summer I was going to use it at another airport and I read the signs and had my device in properly, it started to work but the lady said "no, flip it over and move it there..." and then nothing happened and with a LONG line and only one TSA agent checking IDs I just handed my license over.
My wife said, "I dont know why you are trying to use that. there aren't enough places that accept it anyway" ....and that's precisely the point, the more we try and can use it the more it becomes familiar to all around.
I fly weekly and lately I have been a lot more consistent about using it at the airport. It now doesn't fail at all, and most TSA agents actually were eager to see it work.last fall I was eager to use it at my nearby airport...but the guy said "it isn't working today...it's broken all the time"
This summer I was going to use it at another airport and I read the signs and had my device in properly, it started to work but the lady said "no, flip it over and move it there..." and then nothing happened and with a LONG line and only one TSA agent checking IDs I just handed my license over.
My wife said, "I dont know why you are trying to use that. there aren't enough places that accept it anyway" ....and that's precisely the point, the more we try and can use it the more it becomes familiar to all around.
I will say that those Idemia brand readers that they use really really really suck. Our local MVD (What most states call a DMV) has readers for Apple Wallet now, and those work MUCH better. The readers for Apple wallet are instead similar to a credit card reader rather than something entirely proprietary like the TSA ones.