• Apple and your state issuing authority do not know when or to whom you present your driver’s license or state ID.
• Apple does not see or store images of your ID. Apple uses only limited information from your driver’s license or state ID to prevent fraud at setup and to display your driver’s license or state ID in Wallet.
• When presenting your ID, your device will show you the specific information requested and will not present that information without your confirmation.
• When adding your driver’s license or state ID, your identity information and information about your Apple Account, and device use patterns and settings will be used by Apple and your state issuing authority to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
• Additional verification information you submit when adding your ID, such as a Live Photo and recorded facial and head movements, will be used by Apple for fraud prevention for this feature and retained only until your state issuing authority authorizes or declines adding your driver’s license or state ID to Wallet.

Identity cards in Wallet provide an easy, fast, and more secure way for people to present their driver’s license or state ID.

Adding Your Identity Card

To add an identity card, you will be asked to take a picture of the front and back of your driver’s license or state ID. Your device will evaluate the quality and type of the images to help ensure that the images you provide will be accepted by your state issuing authority. Your identity card images are encrypted on device and sent to your state issuing authority, which may share them with their third-party identity verification service provider; Apple does not see or store images of your identity card. Your device will read the barcode from your identity card and share name, address, and date of birth with Apple for identity verification and fraud prevention. Apple may continue to store information about the verification outcome, such as whether the identity information was successfully verified, to help support the feature and prevent fraud on underlying Apple platforms, but will not store the underlying identity information (such as the date of birth read from your barcode).

To help ensure that the person adding the identity card to Wallet is the same person to whom the identity card belongs, you will be asked to take a Live Photo of yourself. Your device will evaluate the quality of a still frame from the Live Photo you are providing in order to help ensure that the still frame photo you provide will be accepted by your state issuing authority. This still frame from your Live Photo will be encrypted on device and sent to your state issuing authority to be compared against their image on file for the ID. Your state issuing authority will process this still frame photo in accordance with their privacy policies, which may allow them to use facial recognition technology. To help prevent fraud, before your still frame photo is submitted to your state issuing authority, your Live Photo will be evaluated by your device and Apple to help ensure that the Live Photo is of a live person, and that the same live person is submitting their still frame photo as a part of adding their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet. You may be prompted to also conduct a series of facial and head movements, which will be evaluated in the same way as your Live Photo by your device and Apple. Information about your Live Photo, or if applicable your movements, and not the Live Photo or recording of movements themselves, is stored in a way that is associated with you while you are in the process of adding your ID.

Information about your Apple Account, device use patterns and settings, and information about your Live Photo, or facial and head movements, will be shared with Apple for fraud prevention. Apple will share fraud indicators based on this information with your state issuing authority for fraud prevention. Your state issuing authority, and not Apple, will decide whether to authorize adding your driver’s license or state ID to Wallet. In some cases, your state issuing authority may ask for more information or an in-person visit. Apple may receive information about the fact that your state issuing authority required additional verification and the type of verification (such as an in-person visit); Apple retains this information in a manner that is linked to you only while the state issuing authority is in the process of making a decision on whether to authorize adding your ID to Wallet for managing and improving the feature. In some cases, your state issuing authority may provide you with a verification code following their review of additional information. This verification code is encrypted on device and sent to the state issuing authority; Apple does not see or store the verification code. Your state issuing authority may provide Apple with information on the status of its authorization (for example, under review, accepted) so that Apple may send updates to your device and help manage your driver’s license or state ID in Wallet.

Once your state issuing authority authorizes adding your driver’s license or state ID to Wallet, the information reflected on your driver’s license or state ID is stored in an encrypted format that can be decrypted only using the Secure Enclave on your device. You can view this information at any time by going to Wallet, viewing the back of your identity card, tapping “Driver’s License Info” or “State ID Info” and authenticating to view details. Apple cannot see this information. To learn more about the Secure Enclave, visit www.apple.com/privacy

Published Date: November 6, 2024