It’ll be inside the Gov app not Apple Wallet (at least for now).
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Exactly. It would have been nice if this was the path from the outset, but the direction they’ve set out in the press release is fine for now as a first step. I’d still take this being in another app over holding the plastic version.
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It would be nice if I could add it to Google Wallet but I cant remember the last time I needed my driving licence card. So I’m sure I’ll cope waiting a bit longer
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If it’s not going in Apple wallet I don’t want it, simple really.
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Agree. It would be good to have just one digital wallet. I could then get rid of the leather one, which I don’t carry much anyway. R-
This is key. It’s a very well regarded design and for the number of times I actually get my driver’s licence out it’s hardly a hassle to just open the app for it.
It certainly wouldn’t make me just not use it.
On a side note can Apple Wallet require FaceID to show something that’s not a bank card? I’m thinking the security might be why it’s kept in the app at first.
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I only just got this app and was surprised how easy it was to access and log on. Very impressed.
My GP has moved over to the NHS app and there’s just so much information on there now, including detailed test results from 2007!
If they do it right the government apps can really be good.
My husband actually has his birth notes on it now if you scroll back far enough!
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It’s wild. I can see my immunisations from when I was a baby.
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Are you, like me, older than computing.
Mine goes back to 1978.
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Computing is way older than that. I worked briefly on a system that recorded people who had been committed with shell shock (PTSD) in the first world war (and, worryingly, were still in a mental home).
Might take them a while to catch up, but they put the old records on computer eventually.
If your mum is still around, you might be able to get the records from shortly after you came into existence. Maternity was one of the earliest systems to be put on the government computers
No it’s not. Everyone knows that computing first started on the 1st January 1970.
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You’re both wrong. Babbage had the design of the world’s first computer back in the 1850s. The government then wouldn’t give him the £17000 that he needed to build it.
The basic principles of programming were worked out by the world’s first computer programmer Ada Lovelace for that computer in the 1850s too.
And it worked in decimal, none of this binary nonsense.
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1800? Try 2nd century BC Antikythera
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Nope, Babbage’s one was programmable, ancient Greek one was basically a hand powered calculator. So, Ada remains the first programmer.
You can even run Babbage’s computer here: Web Analytical Engine Emulator
Love to see driving license and passport in the Wallet app, however I do think that with so many bank cards, tickets and passes, the app could do with a rethink on how things are organised.
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Loyalty cards are the worst. OK, I’ve my main ones at the top, but there’s still oodles to scroll through.
Would be interesting to see the legalities of this. Say someone hands over their phone on the ID screen to a police officer, the officer then uses that as an opportunity to rummage through the unlocked phone and they find some evidence that’s later relied on in court, what happens then?
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I doubt that would be a lawful search. Depends I suppose on the circumstances, and probably wouldn’t stop them trying. R-
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