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 record of states the place the characteristic is obtainable presently contains Arizona, Maryland, Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, Hawaii, and most lately California, and Apple at this time introduced that Montana, New Mexico, and West Virginia at the moment are dedicated to supporting the characteristic sooner or later.
Apple additionally introduced that customers will quickly be capable to current their Pockets app ID in individual for choose companies, together with CLEAR member enrollment at airports. The characteristic can 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 characteristic but, and it’s unclear if any nonetheless plan to. The characteristic has but to broaden past the U.S., however it is going to work with Japan’s My Quantity Card ultimately.
Collaborating 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 discuss with TSA checkpoint signage to substantiate availability of the characteristic, and the TSA’s web site gives extra particulars.
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