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iPhone Driver's License Feature Slow to Expand, Only Available in Three States
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How many bodies do you have buried in your crawl space that you're worried about that?
I don't know about that now. There are a lot of cash based societies out there. People say Japan is so far ahead technologically but it is very heavily cash based. I remember heading down to the subway at Narita Airport looking to get a ticket for the train into town. Cash only. I was like... wow, ok, I guess Japan being so far ahead technologically was never true.
Yeah it's pretty sad. I think we just have a huge bureaucracy that has to get approval of like 20 different agencies. (Just guessing). We were one of the last states to start issuing "Real IDs" even!
I don’t understand why this is rolling out so slowly. Remember Passbook, the predecessor to Wallet? My state offered a digital driver’s license for it. Now that state is absent from the Wallet list.
Something is going on behind the scenes.
Something is going on behind the scenes.
I feel like states are intentionally dragging their feet on this. It’s so frustrating as I’ve wanted this since before the feature came out, and worse found out my state has done digital license studies and found them to be beneficial. So it seems to just be so they politicians can argue about things than because of any fault of Apple
I would imagine that there are certain upfront and regular costs associated with it that states may not want to take on in a fiscally challenging environment.
It probably isn't a tech thing. Probably more of a cultural thing about money in general. I can understand not wanting to be dependent on a tech system to buy rice. Cash is reliable because it's there.
The problem is politicians have to approve this, so unless there’s some sort of financial or political benefit to them it’s not going to happen very fast.
To be honest: While Apple is trying to put everything in the apple wallet. Apple has not addressed methods in which you can locked out of your phone if a person steals your phone and passcode. I'm already putting cards in my Iphone, i don't think I need more personal information.
I'm in Maryland, have added my ID pretty much as soon as it was available, and have not used it ONCE since. It's a very good idea but is still way too much in "early adoption" phase to be useful yet.
The problem is that places that need to check IDs will need to buy the ID checkers. This costs real money and unless the state buys the readers for them or makes it mandatory, it won't happen until there are enough people with the digital IDs to make it worth their while.
My local bar isn't going to spend their money for a rarely used item and they will continue to do the mandatory ID age checking using the physical ID card they have all been trained to recognize.
If they really want to push this, they should let us know who to contact in our state government to let them know their voters want this.
Governor? DMV? Comptroller? Lt Governor?
Many other offices to chose from.
Governor? DMV? Comptroller? Lt Governor?
Many other offices to chose from.
Really slow. Wonder whether it will ever be available outside US.
I don’t know how to feel about this but after my iPhone was stolen in January right after a rideshare service dropped me off at the airport, i can’t imagine the stress of not being able to fly after two days of delays and setbacks.
I’d recommend some redundancy. If you have an Apple Watch you can have the ID on that as well as the iPhone, hopefully you won’t lose both your phone and watch. If you don’t have an Apple Watch, you could bring your plastic ID along. Those of us with no digital ID options have to either use our one ID or bring along other ID, like a passport, ’just in case’.
But the TSA can let you through with no ID, if you can provide information they can verify:
Acceptable Identification at the TSA Checkpoint | Transportation Security Administration
The TSA Identification Requirements page outlines acceptable forms of ID for travelers at airport security checkpoints.
Does not apply with passports though, they will deny you boarding international if you don’t have a valid passport.
I agree. I think bars would be difficult since they’d have to take your phone to scan it at most. But maybe they could make a way to show you only info you wanted to to share that way it could even speed up the process.
My state also has their own ID app as well and it lets you do this which is pretty nice. The state app shows the actual ID as well as lets you set an ID with less info, you can redact your address and last name. It’s nice and works for everything that the Apple ID doesn’t but it’s a bummer I can’t just do everything in the wallet app. I’m sure it will get better as long as people adopt it.
I had heard that DVLA were working on this, so after failing to get a response from them via email, I faxed them to find out and their reply which they posted to me says they are looking into creating their own digital ID app but do not have a timeline for this yet.