'Pull Over and Show Me Your Apple Wallet' (macrumors.com)
- Reference: 0180480241
- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/2147256/pull-over-and-show-me-your-apple-wallet
- Source link: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/24/iphone-drivers-licenses-states-in-2026/
> MacRumors reports that Apple [2]plans to expand iPhone and Apple Watch driver's licenses to 7 U.S. states (CT, KY, MS, OK, UT, AR, VA). A recent convert is the State of Illinois, whose [3]website videos demo how you can use your Apple Wallet license to display proof of identity or age the next time you get carded by a cop, bartender, or TSA agent. The new states will join 13 others who already offer driver's licenses in the Wallet app (AZ, MD, CO, GA, OH, HI, CA, IA, NM, MT, ND, WV, IL).
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> There's certainly been [4]a lot of foot-dragging by the states when it comes to embracing phone-based driver's licenses -- Slashdot reported that Iowa was [5]ready to launch a mobile driver's license in 2014; they didn't get one until [6]nearly a decade later , in late 2023.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~theodp
[2] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/24/iphone-drivers-licenses-states-in-2026/
[3] https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/drivers/mobile-id/apple-wallet.html
[4] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/21/09/01/168247/apple-secures-first-states-to-support-digital-drivers-licenses-but-privacy-questions-linger
[5] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/12/11/184212/in-iowa-a-phone-app-could-serve-as-drivers-license
[6] https://co.localnews.com/iowas-mobile-identification-app-is-finally-out-how-does-it-work/
I just remember my licence number (Score:3)
I just remember my driving licence number. They type it into the system, my face pops up, quick visual check. Done.
I had a situation once where I was going hiking on the morning of 1 Jan and the police set up a blockade at the entrance to my local motorway to breathalyse everyone after the New Year's Eve. The conversation went like this:
Office: Do you have your driving licence with you?
Me: I'm afraid I don't. But I remember its serial number if that helps?
Officer: You remember your licence number?
Me: Yeah, its ABCDEFG123456HI78JK.
Officer: ... Alright, mate. You're free to go.
Me: Are you sure?
Officer: Yeah. No one on alcohol or drugs would be capable of doing that. You're not the droids we're looking for.
Just What I want (Score:1)
To hand my phone unlocked over to the police.
Re:Just What I want (Score:5, Insightful)
Watch the videos. You are not handing the phone to anybody
Re: (Score:2)
> To hand my phone unlocked over to the police.
No, you can hand over your phone locked - your driver's license will be shown on the lock screen. You'd unlock your phone, tell the wallet app to display your ID then lock your phone and your ID will be displayed on the screen.
Not Very Useful (Score:2)
Here in California, a driver's license in Apple Wallet is not a valid form of ID recognized by law enforcement. The California DMV says, "Continue to carry your physical driver’s license or state-issued ID card. Law enforcement, state government agencies, and businesses aren’t yet accepting the mDL." So, what's the point?
Re: (Score:2)
The point is for people to feel like they got some kind of sci-fi gadget for their $1000. Also they'd like for you to feel that it's mandatory to carry at all times.
Not being readers, the audience doesn't realize this is dystopian sci-fi. Like, the kind you don't want.
Hard pass (Score:2)
Sorry officer. My cellphone is for my personal private and protected communication under the 4th ammendment to the constitution.
Re: (Score:2)
s/ammendment/a m&m and mint/
Re: You stupid, naive SOB. (Score:2)
Lickdembootsfuckstick...youve earned it!
NOPE... phone gets shut off on stop (Score:2)
Cop pulls me over, the phone has been shut down. Handing them your phone with digital license is just invitation for them to go plug your phone into a moblie forensics tool and go fishing..
Seriously, hand over your license and registration and proof of insurance paper and refuse to agree to any searches, refuse to answer any questions (politely) and ask if you are free to go.
These digital wallets are just pretense to get you to unknowingly give consent for a search
No. Not a chance. (Score:2)
Also notice that most of the states into this are police-friendly states already.
It's weird seeing blue states allowing this, and red states getting onboard with technology when they also want voter ID and all that stuff.
In some respects the US lags so much... (Score:1)
It's been years since I used PHYSICAL driving license, car registration, IDs at airport, credit /debit cards, educational certificates, life or other insurance certificates and even property papers (to some limited extent - only urban and only if bought recently in last 5-8 years)
OR depended on a specific manufacturer's App like Apple Google Samsung wallets for these things.
The US is light years ahead of the world in most aspects but really lagging behind in some things that matter. Including payment system
Re: (Score:2)
I'm not sure a driver's license on a phone is "advanced." Sometimes, technology isn't an actual improvement.
There is no way in hell (Score:2)
I would rely on this. Maybe if I drove a BMW or another pricey car I would consider it but it's a loser that drives a beater when I get pulled over by a cop I want to make damn sure that I can quickly hand them my license and registration in the hope that they are not going to go looking for an excuse to rip my car to pieces searching for drugs that aren't there or an excuse to arrest me so they can meet their quota that week.
Again if I drove a really expensive car and was clearly very well off maybe I
License? What License (Score:2)
Officer, I was driving 50mph over the speed limit with my lights off at night in a stolen car with no plates, the wrong way down an Interstate highway, and as you can see by the empty bottles around me, my blood alcohol level is higher than your IQ. Why would you expect me to have a license?
Re: It's not just "show me" (Score:2)
Already unlocked presumably so that defeats the can't be compelled to give a password side of things too
Re: It's not just "show me" (Score:5, Informative)
This doesn't require the phone be unlocked.
Re: It's not just "show me" (Score:2)
Ahh my apologies I was mistaken then.
Re: (Score:2)
You still have to hand over your phone to the officer. No thanks.