California launches digital IDs on iPhone… but without Apple Wallet support
California launches digital IDs on iPhone… but without Apple Wallet support
Earlier this year, California Governor Gavin Newsom teased that the state would launch its support for digital IDs in a...
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That’s a shame! Still, very cool! What can you do with it besides airports? Do any stores actually accept it?
In Colorado I’ve purchased age restricted items using the Colorado digital ID plenty of times.
Yep. I actually stopped carrying around my ID because the new RealID cards are horrifically brittle and just destroy themselves in my wallet, but the digital ID is required to be accepted statewide anyway, so I only need the card when I go out of state.
Colorado has a similar app (myColorado) and it is a legal ID. i’ve used it lots of places with no issue
by “use” do you mean simply showing it? or scanning it?
it can be shown, and has a 3d tilt effect to differentiate from a screenshot. and can also be scanned
The myColorado app is great as it stores a legal ID (except for police interactions???) as well as insurance and vaccine info. Colorado also supports the Apple wallet implementation, which is absolutely useless. The Apple wallet version can only be used at an airport, but when when I tried to use it at DIA the TSA officer just said "no". I think Apple may be the one who is doing it wrong...