iPhone Driver's License Support in Wallet Expands to New Mexico

Just need to be available all 50 states and all businesses…. Hate having to carry my physical wallet just for my drivers license. All my cards are on my phone and everything else.

I am in Colorado, one if the first states with this feature. I added my license the day it came out. The first time I successfully used it with TSA the agent grabbed my phone from my hand to scan it. I removed my id minutes later. The other 3 times I tried before that I got crazy looks like WTF are you doing. If a paid rent-a-cop with zero authority is that agressive, you know real authorities will be worse. I have had many experiences with checkout people in small mom and pop store where they wanted my to hand them my phone. In those cases I said no and paid with a credit card.

The future you imagine based on your apple pay experience buying cheetos wont be quite what you think it is.

I use it with TSA almost every week. The scanners all face you and there is no physical way they can grab it and scan it for you, because it also requires your Face ID to authenticate.

What's the end game here? You have a DL in your iphone wallet and get pulled over....cop wants to see your license...do you send him a copy electronically or do you hand over your phone? There's no way on god's green earth I am handing over my phone to a cop for this purpose.

PLEASE, read how this works BEFORE you make a fool of yourself by complaining about nonexistent problems.

The Wallet app works as it has always worked. When was the last time you needed to hand your phone to the checker at the grocery store to pay for your groceries? Did you hand your phone to the gasoline pump when you refueled your car? Of course not. The Wallet app uses a near-field radio that wirelessly connects to a reader device.

"I live in (insert state here) and they don't support it." (I live in one of these backwards states, and it sucks)

"I'm not handing my phone to the cops." (you don't have to, and you still need your physical card to do pretty much anything. If you don't want the cops to touch your phone, just carry your regular license and don't participate).

How is WV and OK on the "working on it" list and NY, NJ, PA, and DE are not? sheesh.

Largely useless feature. Had this in Arizona for years now. Most TSA checkpoints won't accept it or look at you like you are crazy. Cops won't accept it at all. Most place that need your license won't accept it either, no real reason to have this yet (although I understand the movement has to start someplace).

Arizona has a state app that provides an actual verified image of your license, and many places DO accept that (but still not law enforcement)--but that is completely different than the Apple wallet version. Frankly, there is zero reason for the Apple wallet version to even exist at this point.

I use it at Phoenix Sky Harbor every week, without issue. Nobody looks at you weird or crazy, you just tap, and Face ID, and then go. I also used it at the Scottsdale Apple Store picking up some HomePods I did with order pickup. These are the only two instances I have used the Apple Wallet mobile ID however. The Arizona state app doesn’t even work for me since I upgraded to the iPhone 16. Government makes crap apps it seems. But not all government apps are bad, as the Valley Metro app is some of the best public transit apps I have ever used.

Actual drivers licenses have been faked ever since they were instituted, usually by teenagers trying to buy liquor. I would assume a crafty hacker could do the same with a digital ID?

Law enforcement officers LEOs) typically take the DL <or phone?> back to their car and check against their in-car terminal to beat fakes. Given the fact that there are some very corrupt LEOs, it seems that giving an unlocked phone to some unknown LEO would be a very bad idea.

Note that even with folks like me with nothing but totally innocuous [boring] data on their phones the data has value. Each of our contact lists contains info spammers and hackers pay money for.