Apple Launches the First Smartphone Driver’s License/ID with Arizona

 

 

  

Apple launches the first smartphone driver’s license/ID with Arizona

Additional states to follow, including Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, and the territory of Puerto Rico

 

 

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Via press release from Apple on March 23, 2022

"Apple announced that Arizona is the first state to offer driver’s license and state ID in Wallet. Starting today, Arizonans can add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet, and tap their iPhone or Apple Watch to seamlessly and securely present it at select TSA security checkpoints in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

“We’re thrilled to bring the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet to Arizona today, and provide Arizonans with an easy, secure, and private way to present their ID when traveling, through just a tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch,” said Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet. “We look forward to working with many more states and the TSA to bring IDs in Wallet to users across the US.”

An earlier press release explained how it will work at airport TSAsecurity.

“Presenting a driver’s license or state ID to TSA: Once added to Wallet, customers can present their driver’s license or state ID to the TSA by simply tapping their iPhone or Apple Watch at the identity reader. Upon tapping their iPhone or Apple Watch, customers will see a prompt on their device displaying the specific information being requested by the TSA. Only after authorizing with Face ID or Touch ID is the requested identity information released from their device, which ensures that just the required information is shared and only the person who added the driver’s license or state ID to the device can present it. Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID.”

And Apple also posted a “how-to video” that shows how one adds their driver's license to their iPhone Wallet app at: https://learn.wallet.apple/id#how-to-video

For the courts...

We think that courts can start to think about and plan ways to use this new feature such as a "courthouse check-in" system for jurors and litigants.   And we are also sure that law enforcement will be planning to implement electronic readers to create citations more quickly. Arizona has been working on "e-citation" standards for a long time as we posted here at the CTB in 2013 at: https://courttechbulletin.blogspot.com/2013/08/arizona-traffic-ticket-and-complaint-e.html 

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