Apple Says iPhone Driver's Licenses Coming to These U.S. States Next
In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, providing a...
Never use this. Giving your unlocked phone to law enforcement is a terrible idea.
The last time I got pulled over I shut down my phone and have instructed my family to do the same.
I used to keep my insurance card in wallet, but have a paper copy again.
In September, Apple announced that the following two states had "signed on" to adopt the feature in the future, but it did not provide a timeframe:
In March 2022, Apple listed other states that were committed to offering the feature, and some have followed through since then. The remaining ones:
Do you want your phone unlocked when showing\passing it to the officer? It should be opening as a lockscreen of some sorts, stored locally and securely.
It should also be communicable like a tap to pay so they don’t even need the device, they just tap it and they have the record.
considering how much tim sucked up to tr*mp, you couldn't pay me to use this.
Riddle me this: Why would I want such critical documentation stored on devices built like eggshells?
At least I can drop my physical ID card and can guarantee you it won't break, unless I drop it in lava..
This isn't instead of, this is in addition to.
Also how often are you breaking your phone? in 15 years of owning a smart phone I've broken 1 screen. Even then it was only a minor crack and the phone was still perfectly usable.
To add to my previous comment, the second screen turned out to be slightly smaller and partly incompatible and glitchy (damn eBay seller sent me an incompatible screen, that just happened to sorta work).
So I ordered the third screen for it, the now busted one I'm using now. It's only busted because of the previously mentioned humidity infiltration causing the touchscreen to go nuts, so I smacked the screen with my palm to try to reseat the connections without opening it back up.
I actually can't open this phone back up without destroying the currently cracked screen, the double sided tape caught between the front glass and the screen, and any attempt to try to remove it is trying to peel the screen layers apart now.
These plus other reasons related to the Right To Repair struggles is why I quit working on mobile technology for anyone other than myself. The big companies simply try to make things impossible to fix these days ☹️
This phone (the one with the zillion cracks) is also still perfectly usable. As long as I don't carry it with me anywhere, it has to stay home.
After the first screen replacement, it lost its water resistance. Not like I go stirring my drinks with it or whatever, but humidity from sweat in my pocket will get into it, and the touchscreen will go bonkers!
Yes, I replaced the screen myself, I've done thousands of screen replacements before, that was my job for around 8 years.
But when the phone only has like half a millimeter of edge space for the double sided tape to adhere to, there's basically no way to get that slim of tape to keep water or even humidity out.
Eggshell technology...
I prefer mobile pay. But don’t usually leave my traditional forms of payment at home.
Seems similar.
I have 5 phones, and only one has the NFC feature, and it's on its third screen, that's busted into a zillion pieces and not suitable to carry with me.
I'm not too keen on anything I need to outright rely on being stored on eggshell technology.
Besides, you do realize hackers can just bump into you in the store and steal your money wirelessly right?
Sometimes I forget my wallet, but I still have my mobile payments. It’s nice to have the option of the same backup for ID. If it was mandatory digital I would change my opinion.
I sleep with my wallet in my pocket. I've never lost my wallet, and short of a mugging, I most likely never will. The only time I leave my wallet out of my pocket is when I shower and change clothes.
Not only does it contain my ID, it also contains my barebones emergency survival kit. A credit card sized folding pocket knife, credit card sized Freznel lens that can start fires, and an emergency prescription eyeglass lens mounted in a keyring in case I ever lose my glasses.
Those things won't break or lose charge either.