iPhone Driver's License Support Expands to Montana

If they will soon be supporting passports why does it matter anyone what state licenses are supported?
 
mattopotamus said:
Still a completely useless feature until it can actually replace a physical ID.
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chicken and egg problem... as soon as both mobile platforms support it, then the federal government will probably support it for TSA, then they'll add passport support, then international support... then you won't be able to leave home, cross state lines or visit another country without your 'phone'.
 
This has one amazing use case for me: when I forget my wallet and go driving somewhere. I won't leave without my phone.

Come on South Carolina!!!!!
 
It will never happen in Maine. We seem to be more worried about replacing our plates with a cartoonist looking Pine Tree.
 
ChrisA said:
Only people who don't accept it are beggars at freeway exits. But soon they will need to get on board, as people don't carry cash.
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That's all we need. A bunch of bums & junkies running around with credit & debit card readers trying to shake people down for their next fix.
 
dontwalkhand said:
I’ve used it flawlessly at airports in CA, AZ and UT almost weekly. Never had the agent asked me for my physical ID.

Surprisingly the place I have had the most difficulty using it was picking up items AT AN APPLE STORE!
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Im in Maryland. I'll blame my proximity to DC for the extra security theater lol
 
dontwalkhand said:
Awesome for the four people that live there!
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I’m one of the 4 😬😂⛰️ #bigskycountry (my family has a working cattle ranch), so I consider it the family home 🏡

I’d never willingly had over personal property to law enforcement, but I’d use it to verify age at a bar/restaurant/festival 100%.

I carry ID on my 100% of the time when I leave the apt.
 
Madhatter32 said:
Imagine getting pulled over and only having your iphone license. Handing over your opened iPhone to the police is not the best idea. I'll still with the physical license, thank you very much.
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Hey, we made it to page 2 before this bs came up, progress!

No, this feature doesn't have you hand your phone over to anyone. You scan your phone on a reader with this feature. It's like Apple Pay. You ever use Apple Pay? You don't hand your phone over to the cashier with Apple Pay. You scan it. It never leaves your hand. This is no different. It stays in your hand, you tap your phone, badda bing badda boom, stuff happens.

Police departments don't actually accept the Apple Wallet ID feature. They all require you to have the plastic. The TSA accepts it, at certain airports, in certain states, and sometimes in certain TSA lanes. You are still required to have the plastic for TSA, just in case there's a reader problem, or by the discretion of the agent they can ask you for the plastic.
 
jaytv111 said:
Hey, we made it to page 2 before this bs came up, progress!

No, this feature doesn't have you hand your phone over to anyone. You scan your phone on a reader with this feature. It's like Apple Pay. You ever use Apple Pay? You don't hand your phone over to the cashier with Apple Pay. You scan it. It never leaves your hand. This is no different. It stays in your hand, you tap your phone, badda bing badda boom, stuff happens.

Police departments don't actually accept the Apple Wallet ID feature. They all require you to have the plastic. The TSA accepts it, at certain airports, in certain states, and sometimes in certain TSA lanes. You are still required to have the plastic for TSA, just in case there's a reader problem, or by the discretion of the agent they can ask you for the plastic.
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Yup, in Georgia it's the same, and we have a busy airport and the scanning equipment is slower than just showing your passport. Hopefully it'll get there one day, but even Hartsfield's baggage scanners are slower now.

Heck even everyone has TSA-Pre now, I might go back to normal lines and see if they are shorter.
 
Vulkan said:
and in Texas, we are behind the cows ass, still no sign of adopting this. I need to find a state that is more technological than this pasture cow haven.
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Meanwhile, my state (AZ) was the first to adopt digital ID 3 years ago, and I still haven't bothered to add it to my Apple Wallet because there's no practical use for it. I get on an airplane about once every 10-15 years, I can't use it for ID if I'm pulled over by LE, and I don't know of a single business anywhere that uses it to verify ID.

I'm not a Luddite, I'll gladly take advantage of it when it finally serves a purpose of some kind, but we're not there yet.
 
Come on, Washington (state) - get on the ball!

My local Winco finally started accepting NFC debit payments - they were the last local business I frequent that couldn't handle Apple Pay. If this darn state would get a digital drivers license going, I could head out with just my phone (or, maybe, just my watch!).

You'd think a state with such a heavy tech presence would've jumped into this with both feet...
 
Madhatter32 said:
Imagine getting pulled over and only having your iphone license. Handing over your opened iPhone to the police is not the best idea. I'll still with the physical license, thank you very much.
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No police officer wants to touch your phone while on a traffic stop. They don't want to unnecessarily expose themselves to the risks of somebody else's potential germs/viruses/bugs, nor do they want to have to go back to the station and deal with bogus complaints that they rifled through your photos or messages, or somehow misused your Apple Wallet to steal money or whatever. They present the e-Citation device, you click and transmit your ID info to it, they give you your ticket and you're on your way.

Some time when you get stopped, try handing your whole wallet to the officer. At least in the USA, any whose training is more recent than Podunk PD in the 1950s will refuse to even touch it, and will tell you to take your ID out and hand it to them. Why? So people can't call the station afterwards and claim they had $25,000 cash in there and the officer took it when he handled their wallet (even though body cams largely take care of that nowadays anyway).

Police officers don't put their hands on people or their things unless they need to, for a lot of reasons.
 
In those rare situations I don't have my drivers license, I would hope that I can just have it on my phone. I want this "garbage" in my state as a backup to my regular license.
 
ChrisA said:
Only people who don't accept it are beggars at freeway exits. But soon they will need to get on board, as people don't carry cash.
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So my city is ahead of the game.
 

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Curious how it works for organ donors or people that get into a nasty wreck. Can’t be identified by a physical ID till you get back into consciousness to unlock your phone.

Had a friend that got hit by a hit and run driver while she was crossing the street her way home. People found her unconscious and she went into coma….so with something like this how would authority know who she is???
 
Vulkan said:
and in Texas, we are behind the cows ass, still no sign of adopting this. I need to find a state that is more technological than this pasture cow haven.
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Ive lived in a lot of states tx and okc are by far the worst theyd rather put cameras on every corner then actually re pave a road unless ofc its a toll road they never plan to pay off
 
dontwalkhand said:
I’ve used it flawlessly at airports in CA, AZ and UT almost weekly. Never had the agent asked me for my physical ID.

Surprisingly the place I have had the most difficulty using it was picking up items AT AN APPLE STORE!
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Specially when you pay with apple pay and they ask to see the card you paid with lol
 
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