In choose U.S. states, residents can add their driver’s license or state ID to the Pockets app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, offering a handy and contactless technique to show proof of identification or age at choose airports and companies, and in choose apps. The checklist of states the place the function is accessible at the moment contains Arizona, Maryland, Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, Hawaii, and most lately California, and Apple right this moment introduced that Montana, New Mexico, and West Virginia at the moment are dedicated to supporting the function sooner or later.
Apple additionally introduced that customers will quickly be capable of current their Pockets app ID in particular person for choose providers, together with CLEAR member enrollment at airports. The function will even be supported within the CLEAR, MyChart, and Uber Eats apps quickly.
In 2022, Apple stated Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah had been additionally dedicated to providing driver’s licenses within the Pockets app, however none of these states have rolled out the function but, and it’s unclear if any nonetheless plan to. The function has but to broaden past the U.S., however it is going to work with Japan’s My Quantity Card ultimately.
Taking part Airports
Apple Pockets app IDs can be utilized at choose TSA checkpoints inside choose U.S. airports:
- Baltimore/Washington Worldwide Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)
- Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport (DCA)
- Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport (PHX)
- Denver Worldwide Airport (DEN)
- Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL)
- Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG)
- John Glenn Columbus Worldwide Airport (CMH)
- San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO)
- San Jose Mineta Worldwide Airport (SJC)
Apple says vacationers ought to check with TSA checkpoint signage to verify availability of the function, and the TSA’s web site gives extra particulars.
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