Posted on 11/13/2025 12:03:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Apple is launching Digital IDs, a feature that allows you to create and store an ID in Apple Wallet using your US passport. In the announcement, Apple says Digital ID acceptance will begin to “roll out first” at TSA checkpoints for domestic travel in over 250 airports across the US.
You can present your Digital ID in place of a REAL ID at TSA checkpoints using your iPhone or Apple Watch. But Apple notes that it isn’t a replacement for your physical passport, and that you can’t use it for international travel or border crossings.
Apple already allows you to store your driver’s license in Apple Wallet in 12 states and Puerto Rico, but the new Digital ID option offers an alternative for people whose home state doesn’t support digital driver’s licenses or don’t already have a REAL ID or state ID. Apple first announced Digital IDs during its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and the feature was supposed to arrive with iOS 26 before Apple quietly delayed it.
To create a Digital ID, tap the “plus” button at the top right corner of the Wallet app, and then select Digital ID. From there, Apple will ask you to scan the photo page of your physical passport, as well as the chip embedded on the back of it “to ensure the data’s authenticity.” You’ll then have to take a selfie for verification, as well as complete facial and head movements to confirm that it’s really you.
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"Just one more scheme (IMHO) to get the peasants to DEMAND Biometric / Digital IDs (and Central Bank Digital Currency).
I always figured that “The Mark of the Beast” would have to be forced upon the majority of the populace.
I was wrong.
It seems that ‘They’ are engineering it so that not only will most people ask for it, they will be willing to PAY big bucks for it with their Android and Apple phones, and dozens of other ‘smart devices’ that have you hooked up and monitored to the vast information grid every moment of their lives.
Am I to conclude you won’t be using the Apple ID system?
Excellent recall from 1967!
No thank you.
The only thing I truly need my Mac for is Final Cut.
Linux can do everything else.
You are Number Six!
Who is Number One?
The govt nor business can keep my credit card number secure imagine when all, everyone’s data is stolen and destroyed. Man talk about anarchy.
Sounds like an internal passport.
Are you saying that you didn’t recognize that the clot shot was a trial run?
Look how the lemmings flocked to that, and how they reviled any who didn’t.
Adoption will be more greatly, uhh... “encouraged,” shall we say. So you can imagine what treatment will be received by those who refuse.
The only thing you'll need your digital ID for is to keep your job.
Tagline = undefeated
You would be correct if you concluded that.
Or anyone else’s. I’ll quit using the internet if it becomes universally required
I suppose Final Cut is very powerful and if you use it professionally, I suppose it may be necessary.
OpenShot on Linux does MORE than I’ll ever need for making my occasional amateur videos, and it is ‘free’.
Of course I recognized that.
I’m a pure blood as far as Covid crap goes.
In fact, I’ve not received ANY sort of Vaccination since 1975 when I figured out that the annual Flu Shots were making me sick.
I’m impressed with Final Cut.
It’s tons more stable than any Windows video editor I’ve used.
I’ve used KDEN and it is ok.
The darkest days are on the way.
Orwell warned us and Beria could only have dreamt of this level of monitoring.
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