iPhone Driver's License Feature Set to Expand to a 15th U.S. State

Apple's integer driver's licence diagnostic successful the Wallet app is acceptable to grow to Virginia, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter.


In prime U.S. states, residents tin adhd their driver's licence oregon authorities ID to the Wallet app connected the iPhone and Apple Watch, and past usage it to show impervious of individuality oregon property astatine prime airports and businesses, and successful prime apps. The diagnostic has rolled retired to 14 states truthful far, including Arkansas earlier this week, and it is besides disposable successful Puerto Rico.

The different states are Arizona, Maryland, Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, Hawaii, California, Iowa, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Illinois.

Now, Apple is preparing for the diagnostic to spell unrecorded successful Virginia, the idiosyncratic said. However, we bash not person an nonstop timeframe for availability. Towards the extremity of 2025, Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles said it planned to enactment the Apple Wallet's integer ID diagnostic successful the coming months, truthful hopefully it goes unrecorded soon by this point.

When the diagnostic goes live, Virginia residents volition beryllium capable to acceptable it up by opening the Wallet app connected the iPhone and tapping connected the positive motion successful the top-right corner. Next, they volition pat connected Driver's License and ID Cards, prime Virginia from the database erstwhile it is added, and travel the on-screen steps to implicit the process.

Apple Wallet IDs are accepted astatine TSA checkpoints astatine hundreds of U.S. airports for home travel. Given that Apple Wallet IDs are not accepted by instrumentality enforcement, and deficiency galore different usage cases, carrying a carnal ID is inactive necessary.

If you unrecorded successful a authorities that does not yet connection Apple Wallet IDs, you tin create a Digital ID based connected your U.S. passport, and contiguous it astatine the aforesaid participating TSA checkpoints, for property and individuality verification purposes during home travel. It is not a replacement for a carnal passport, and it cannot beryllium utilized for planetary travel.

The passport diagnostic requires iOS 26.1 oregon watchOS 26.1 and later.
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