Apple delays release of digital ID feature in Wallet app to 2022

(Pocket-lint) - Apple has delayed the merchandise of a much-anticipated diagnostic that volition let Americans to digitally store their recognition cards - such arsenic their driver's licence oregon authorities ID - successful the Apple Wallet app.

The institution softly updated its official iOS 15 website, arsenic archetypal noticed by MacRumors, to accidental the diagnostic volition present get sometime successful aboriginal 2022.

First announced astatine WWDC 2021, Apple is moving to connection the diagnostic nationwide. Originally, the institution planned to motorboat it successful precocious 2021. Apple adjacent said Arizona and Georgia would beryllium the archetypal states to connection the diagnostic to residents. Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah are besides readying to enactment it. Apparently, prime TSA information checkpoints astatine US airports should judge integer IDs successful the Wallet app.

To adhd your driver's licence oregon authorities ID, you'll unfastened the Wallet app connected your phone, pat the positive motion astatine the top, and travel the on-screen steps. You volition beryllium required to instrumentality a photograph of your look and implicit a bid of caput movements during setup and for verification purposes.

Then, erstwhile you privation to contiguous your IDs to TSA information guards oregon whomever, you'll simply pat your iPhone oregon Apple Watch connected an individuality scholar and past corroborate your enactment with Face ID oregon Touch ID. No request to contiguous your carnal card. You won't adjacent request to manus implicit your device.

To larn much astir the now-delayed feature, spot Pocket-lint's guide:

• How to adhd a driver's licence oregon authorities ID to Apple Wallet

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 23 November 2021.