hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and apple finally launched its digital id apple's digital
id was something that apple showed off with ios 15 many months ago and is finally available on your
phone in supported areas now i want to talk about the requirements as far as the phones and devices
as well as the states and country that support it and then also what it looks like to set it up and
how it would be used now the first thing is how you would use it this would take the place of
your physical id so instead of carrying around a card what you would do is walk up to a kiosk
tap it on the kiosk and then verify it's you similar to face id or touch id
and then you're good to go through that checkpoint if that's available so in the areas that's
available it will also be available at the tsa apple says it will be at tsa checkpoints or those
are security checkpoints in the united states for airports and check the signage for availability is
what apple currently says if they have that option you can just use your phone or your apple watch
the same exact way to go through those checkpoints so apple has made that available on both devices
if you do want to use it on your device though you will need to have an iphone 8 or later running ios
15.4 so you will need the latest update where that code is there so you can use the digital id
also you can use that along with your watch but it needs to be a series for apple watch or later
running watch os 8.4 or later so if you have 8.4 or 8.5 now you can use it on the apple watch as
well now it's currently supported in just one area in arizona in the united states your local
government has to agree to it your local state as well as your country as well so right now
it's available in arizona and other states later so according to apple it's going to be included in
colorado hawaii mississippi ohio and territories such as puerto rico and then also connecticut
later georgia iowa kentucky maryland oklahoma and utah so it will be available in all of those
states but as far as country support it's hard to say as well canada the uk australia germany those
will probably be later on but the country or the state has to provide a support network on the back
end to handle all of this as well so they have to work directly with apple to get this set up
so it could take some time around the world now the way this works is you first need to go into
your apple wallet so we'll go into wallet within your apple wallet tap on the plus in the upper
right once you've pressed the plus button you'll see that it says driver's license or state id
so we can now add that to our wallet tap on driver's license or state id and we currently
only have one option for arizona so arizona's driver's license we have that option and then
we can hit continue in the future we should have the options for local states and countries as well
hit continue and it wants you to scan the front of your id now if you see if it actually sees an
id that's not from arizona it will tell you that it's not supported so it actually recognizes where
it's from and recognizes the layout of the arizona id now apple has shown what this looks like though
so if you haven't seen it and you're in arizona it looks like this where you would scan the front of
your id then you scan the back of your id then you scan your face similar to face id or if you have
touch id it's supported there as well but it's going to scan your face to make sure it matches
your id then it's going to send it to the local database in the state or country where it gets
approved so again you'll see here it says send to arizona mvd and they handle that they approve it
then it's available in your wallet after it's approved so again the state needs to have
the local backend to handle all of this as well to verify the id with the database so it's a
legal id on your phone so that is how that works and again it will be available in the future but
at many checkpoints and things maybe around the world or in your country or state i would
imagine this will be added later on and maybe we'll see this from other manufacturers such
as android as well but right now this is super secure it has all of the depth mapping and more
or the face id to scan that or your touch id and you're verifying it a different way so that's
something they've announced today that's available again availability they haven't said when it will
be available in other states such as maybe florida or new york or california those are yet to be in
the future and other countries as well in addition to apple using digital wallet apple has also
updated the car key feature which now supports more vehicles the 2022 genesis and kia vehicles so
if you have that option for your vehicle you can now add it to your phone and use it with
your wallet where you would just tap your phone to use it so that's something they've added
with ios 15.4 and now they're adding additional vehicles as manufacturers sign on to use that
so there are going to be more and more but right now what's supported is the gv60 g90 and the kia
niro so those should be supported hopefully we'll see more of that added in the future
with things like tesla and more so maybe in the near future but right now digital id is finally
here and that basically completes everything apple wanted to add to ios 15 that they showed at wwdc
so we'll have to wait and see what they do with ios 16 next where they'll add additional features
but we'll see that in the next few months with the following release usually around september
but digital id's finally here let me know what you think about it is it something you would use or
that you would rather not use on your phone i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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