You Can Use Your iPhone as an ID in These States - Lifehacker

Why bash I inactive transportation a wallet? My iPhone does conscionable astir thing a accepted wallet tin do. Most (if not all) of my purchases are via Apple Pay oregon QR code, my telephone holds each of my pictures, and astir of my receipts besides spell to my email. Basically the lone I support my wallet astir is to transportation my ID. Once my authorities starts supporting Apple’s integer ID feature, however, things volition alteration betwixt maine and my wallet.

Since iOS 15.4, Apple has supported adding a driver’s licence oregon different authorities ID to your iPhone’s integer wallet. That doesn’t mean you’ve been needlessly carrying your ID astir since then—states person been dilatory to rotation retired the feature, and astir haven’t yet signed connected astatine all. As of this writing, only 2 states actively let you to adhd your ID to your iPhone, portion 10 much (plus Puerto Rico) person confirmed plans to connection the enactment eventually, connected a escaped timeline of “soon.”

Here’s the afloat database arsenic it stands successful October 2022:

• Arizona (March 2022)
  
• Maryland (May 2022)
• Colorado (coming soon)
• Connecticut (coming soon)
• Georgia (coming soon)
• Hawaii (coming soon)
• Iowa (coming soon)
• Kentucky (coming soon)
• Mississippi (coming soon)
• Ohio (coming soon)
• Oklahoma (coming soon)
• Puerto Rico (coming soon)
• Utah (coming soon)

If you unrecorded successful Arizona and Maryland, beryllium warned: You can’t simply manus a bull your iPhone erstwhile you get pulled over. There are specific, constricted usage cases for this feature. Right now, that means identifying yourself astatine the airport. Apple worked with the TSA to marque this happen, and it presently works astatine the pursuing airports:

• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)
• Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)

Soon, though, participating apps volition beryllium capable to cheque your integer ID for property authentication, truthful you won’t request to interest astir presenting your driver’s licence the adjacent clip you bid booze. Apple has confirmed Uber Eats and Turo arsenic among the archetypal apps to enactment the option, though the diagnostic doesn’t look to beryllium unrecorded arsenic of yet. Seeing arsenic the diagnostic is technically a portion of iOS 16, however, it’s apt it volition get successful the adjacent future.

How to adhd a integer ID to your iPhone

If you bash unrecorded successful a supported state, mounting up the diagnostic is simple. Open Wallet, then, pat the (+) successful the apical right, past take “Driver’s License oregon State ID.” Choose your state, past take whether to adhd the ID to your iPhone 8 oregon newer, arsenic good arsenic your Apple Watch Series 4 oregon newer. Either way, you’ll request to scan your ID with your iPhone’s camera, past scan your look to beryllium your identity. Once complete, nonstop each accusation to your authorities to confirm.

The adjacent clip you alert from a participating airport, you tin unlock your iPhone and spot it adjacent to the ID scanner. You’ll spot your integer ID appear, implicit with each accusation you volition beryllium sharing with the TSA if you o.k. (name, day of birth, sex, ID number, state, contented and expiration dates, existent ID status, and ID photo).

[MacRumors]