Patents point to iPhone replacing physical driver's license and passportApple really wants to get rid of the wallet.
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Apple may be trying to digitize the driver's license and passport.
New patents point to such technology.
Apple has been slowly attempting to get rid of the wallet since the launch of Apple Pay.
Since the launch of the Wallet app and Apple Pay, Apple has been slowly trying to rid the world of the physical wallet and all of the items you carry inside. It appears that, now that Apple Pay has grown into mass adoption across the world, the company is turning its eyes to the drivers license and the passport.
Reported by AppleInsider, Apple has filed a number of patents titled "Providing Verified Claims of User Identity" which focus on authenticating a user's identity digitally with a device.
"A device implementing a system for using a verified claim of identity includes at least one processor configured to receive a verified claim including information to identify a user of a device," says one such application, "t...
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Patents point to iPhone replacing physical driver's license and passport