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             Apple Announces Details of Storing State IDs in Wallet

   Josh Centers

   An intriguing feature of Apple's iOS 15 announcement at WWDC was the
   option to store a driver's license or a state ID in the Wallet app on
   the iPhone and Apple Watch. At the time, Apple offered no details, and
   the feature hasn't appeared in the iOS 15 betas. Now [1]Apple has
   provided some specifics: the feature will roll out first to residents
   of Arizona and Georgia, with Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland,
   Oklahoma, and Utah to follow. We're voting for California, New York,
   Tennessee, and Washington State next.

   Apple's announcement is nicely detailed, but after a briefing with
   Apple, John Gruber of Daring Fireball shared [2]some additional quick
   insights. Most importantly, you won't have to unlock, show, or hand
   over your iPhone'identification information will be transmitted to a
   reader using NFC after biometric authentication, much like Apple Pay.
   Even better, the system will offer the option to share only necessary
   information'for instance, if you need to prove your age, you could
   verify that without also sharing your birthdate. (It's also reading the
   footnotes for Gruber's profanity-laced tirade about the ugliness of
   many state IDs.)

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   1. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first-states-to-adopt-drivers-licenses-and-state-ids-in-wallet/
   2. https://daringfireball.net/2021/09/initial_details_on_ids_in_apple_wallet
   3. https://daringfireball.net/2021/09/initial_details_on_ids_in_apple_wallet

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