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The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration on Wednesday said digital copies of state-issued driver’s licenses and identifications can now be downloaded into the Wallet app on some Apple devices. The announcement makes Maryland the second state to participate in the computing giant’s digital ID initiative, following Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State officials said that residents can use the Maryland Mobile ID service to add their identifications to their iPhones and Apple Watches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryland officials have been toying<\/a> with digital driver’s licenses since 2017<\/a>, when the MVA launched a pilot program with software firm Gemalto. State lawmakers approved the creation of a full-fledged program in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In going with Apple, though, Maryland joins Arizona in a potentially long list of states to incorporate their ID cards with the world’s most valuable consumer brand \u2014 the company has previously said it’s planning similar partnerships with at least 11 other states since it announced the program<\/a> last September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Maryland MVA press release, adding an ID to a phone or watch only requires tapping the “+” button at the top of the Wallet app and going through a series of verification steps. Officials said it’s only supported on iPhone 8 models or later and requires the latest iOS update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as in Arizona \u2014 where the digital IDs are only accepted in security lanes at the Phoenix airport \u2014 the Maryland version is also limited to travel terminals for now. Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at both Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will accept the digital licenses from passengers going through the PreCheck lanes, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also as in Arizona, the digital ID is not yet a replacement for the real thing. Other venues in Maryland that require people to show identification \u2014 casinos, liquor stores and encounters with law enforcement, for instance \u2014 are still only taking physical cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver time, we expect the locations accepting mobile ID to grow, but we are excited to partner with the Transportation Security Administration to allow Maryland residents to present their Maryland Mobile ID in Apple Wallet at participating airports,” MVA Administrator Chrissy Nizer said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maryland follows Arizona in making its IDs compatible with the Apple Wallet app, though they’re only accepted at two airports for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":49909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_grayscale_images":true,"grayscale_contrast":0,"sponsored_content":false,"display_author_bio":true,"story_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20649],"tags":[10852,2743,737,248],"people":[],"special-report":[23777],"authors":[4697],"class_list":["post-49865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emerging-tech","tag-transportation-security-administration","tag-apple","tag-digital-drivers-license","tag-maryland","special-report-emerging-tech-a-statescoop-edscoop-special-report","author-benjamin-freed"],"yoast_head":"\nMaryland becomes second state to offer IDs on Apple Wallet | StateScoop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maryland follows Arizona in making its IDs compatible with the Apple Wallet app, though they're only accepted at two airports for now.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maryland becomes second state to offer IDs on Apple Wallet | StateScoop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maryland follows Arizona in making its IDs compatible with the Apple Wallet app, though they're only accepted at two airports for now.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"StateScoop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StateScoop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-25T20:07:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-08T16:27:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1186983690-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1824\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1368\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Benjamin Freed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@brfreed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@State_Scoop\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/\",\"name\":\"Maryland becomes second state to offer IDs on Apple Wallet | StateScoop\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1186983690-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-25T20:07:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-08T16:27:50+00:00\",\"description\":\"Maryland follows Arizona in making its IDs compatible with the Apple Wallet app, though they're only accepted at two airports for now.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/maryland-drivers-license-apple-wallet\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1186983690-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1186983690-1.jpg\",\"width\":1824,\"height\":1368,\"caption\":\"Passengers go through TSA control check at Baltimore International Airport in Maryland on Nov. 30, 2019. 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