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iPhone Driver's Licenses in Wallet App Rolling Out in Seventh U.S. State

now i see it said:
If you drive a vehicle on public roads in the USA, everyone in every state is still REQUIRED to carry the original drivers license card issued by the DMV. Digital driver’s license is not legal for driving.
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Currently. You MUST have reader hardware to accept the digital driving licenses, and LE do not have this handheld scanners with this hardware (TSA barely has any hardware deployed).

Some states like Colorado still have their older bespoke digital licenses, and have regulation that they MUST be accepted, and have deployed bespoke solutions so that LE can do so (basically, you send your info to the terminal in their squad car)

Drive over the state line into Utah? You're gonna have a hard time without a plastic card. Want to get into a federal facility (or through TSA)? Colorado's system is useless.

Also, if your phone dies, it is going to slow things way down and you could even wind up getting taken into custody (or at least be told you can no longer operate the vehicle). The newer standard licenses Apple supports will supposedly do things like share limited credentials with LE readers over NFC even while the phone battery is dead.
 
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cocky jeremy said:
2) How do they use/scan our ID on our phone at TSA?
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Similar to Apple Pay - you can tap an NFC area to initiate, or pre-select it in the Wallet then tap NFC. I think you can also initiate by scanning a QR code with the phone's camera, but I haven't seen this deployed.

The screen will then display the information being requested, and whether or not they intend to retain that info outside the interaction. When you approve, just that information requested is sent. I believe it is transmitted over either bluetooth or an ad-hoc wifi network to the TSA agent's terminal.

The terminal then verifies the cryptographic signature to confirm it is from a DMV that is following RealID identity verification/security processes, and that the data is unmodified.

I think the station will attempt to match you against the photo using a camera, and will attempt to match your full name to airline manifests and the no fly list. The flight manifests indicate whether or not you qualify for TSA Pre. If all the checks pass, I think the agent literally just sees a confirmation on their screen. It basically escalates to the agent if the photo doesn't seem to match, the name doesn't match a ticketed passenger, they don't have TSA Pre but are in the Pre line, etc.

I'll admit I'm fuzzy on how they match you up to the actual ticketing now. I don't believe the current system requires you to present your ticket, which would make me think your license number and the ticketing information (including things like known traveller numbers) are associated at check-in by the airlines and shared with TSA on the back-end - relatively quickly.
 
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TuffLuffJimmy said:
did you actually get it to add? I never got any communication or email and now when I check in my wallet it asks for an eight digit code provided by the Hawaiian DMV ???
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sounds like you got additional verification - I suspect that eight digit code is being mailed to your home address.
 
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sounds like you got additional verification - I suspect that eight digit code is being mailed to your home address.
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sounds about right. Still I received no communication through email or the wallet app and there’s no documentation I could find that says they mail any confirmation. But I’ll keep an eye out
 
I live in Ohio and have had it for several months in my Apple wallet. It’s been accepted everywhere I’ve gone. For airports, I’ll still carry my license.
 
I just want to say, in case anyone else in Hawaii runs into a similar situation to me, that I did receive an eight digit code in the mail from the Hawaiian DMV and once the code was input into the wallet app the card was added to my wallet no problem.

Adding it to my watch’s wallet took a few tries and I imagine there might be a bit of pain having to do some similar kind of verification in the future if I upgrade my phone or watch.

Have not had the opportunity to try out whether or not the wallet ID will work at a Hawaiian airport yet.
 
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