Apple has broken new ground by allowing iPhone users’ Apple Wallets to serve as official identification if equipped with a driver’s license or state ID. Setting up your iPhone with a driver’s license or state ID is just as simple as adding a card to your Apple Wallet, but you’ll need to follow a few steps.

Apple has opened up its mobile driver’s license and digital state ID program in Arizona. The mDLs can now be stored in the Apple Wallet. The initiative, built into Apple’s iOS 15 software that powers modern iPhones, was announced last summer and will expand to Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio and Puerto Rico “soon.”

Apple announces that Arizona is the first state to offer mobile driver’s licenses and state IDs in Wallet. Residents can add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet and tap their iPhone or Apple Watch to securely present it at select TSA security checkpoints in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

GET Group North America has launched an app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store that enables businesses to automate the authentication of mobile ID and mobile driver’s license information. GET Mobile Verify allows businesses and government organizations to read digital IDs and driver’s licenses issued anywhere around the world as a legal form of age and identity verification.

A bill in the Utah Legislature proposes to move to a digital driver license (DDL). State Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, is proposing a bill — Senate Bill 88 — that would make permanent an electronic license certificate or identification card and would require the Utah Driver License Division “to maintain the security and privacy of information related to” the mobile driver license and ID card.

South Korea is kicking off a six-month trial of a new mobile driver’s license system. If all goes well, the country will move forward with the full national launch of the system in July.

The Washington, DC city council has passed a new bill that will allow residents to use a digital ID in any situation where they would previously have had to present a physical ID card.

By this coming Easter, Greeks will be able to carry the downloaded full version of their digital IDs and mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) in digital wallets on their mobile phones. Meanwhile, Greek authorities have also announced that it is now possible to save the ID card alongside other documentation such as vaccination and diagnostic certificates in the COVID-free GR Wallet.

The Secure Technology Alliance announced in a post that the TSA will accept Mobile Driver’s Licenses (mDL) at two airports in February of 2022 before adding two additional states in March as part of a pilot program.

According to an event recap from the Secure Technology Alliance, the TSA is planning to support Apple Wallet IDs (mobile driver’s licenses) in two airports in February. If successful, the test will expand to airports in two more states the following month.