https://www.idropnews.com/gallery/everything-you-can-store-in-apple-wallet/213390/
I really wish more organisations took advantage of this in the UK…
I still carry a wallet for 3 reasons.
- Some places still require your actual bank card (e.g. to pay for Petrol)
- Driver’s ID. Not available in the UK
- To carry a little bit of change which comes in handy sometimes.
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This might be changing 
I used apple pay at an asda pump (no kisok) and our local Tesco have also installed contactless machines in the pumps, though not active yet.
Agree that it’d be good to have the driving license in there.
Change is left in the car though
Everything else is in my Apple wallet and very rarely take a physical one with me.
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I only use my car a few times a week, often I walk places and/or use public transport.
I agree it would be good as a backup, but if it’s your only copy and you get pulled over, you’d have to hand over your unlocked phone for an indeterminate amount of time when the officer asks for your driver’s license.
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I think the officer has (or will have) an app that gets your license from your phone by bringing their phone or reader near yours.
And when you use the license on your phone to show proof of age at a bar, your personal info is not shown in order to protect your privacy.
Rarely am I successful in paying for fuel with my phone/watch in the US. Sometimes they have NFC readers, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they have an NFC reader but it doesn’t work properly.
But when I’m near home, I tend to stop at the stations that let me pay through an app before I even get out of the vehicle. That usually works.
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I really want everything to be in Apple Wallet but some places just don’t accept “virtual” ID card (scan of license). They WANT a physical card which for some reason they think can be more authentic.
That’s why I won’t use a digital driver’s license
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I encounter faulty NFC readers all the time and not just at gas stations. It is so common I always use my credit card so I can tap, swipe, or insert, and complete my purchase quickly. I only use Apple Pay online, when it is available.
I want to put my voter id in my Apple Wallet to make voting easier.
Here in the UK the current (but not for long) Conservative government introduced the requirement for voter ID at elections in 2023. Supposedly to prevent the crime of “impersonation”, i.e. voting while claiming to be someone else. Utterly needless piece of junk legislation because in the last general election (2019) out of the 48million people eligible to vote exactly nine were investigated for impersonation and of those only three saw criminal charges raised (but I recall that in the end no one was found guilty).
As a consequene of that nonsense I made my own voting easier by requesting a postal vote. The ballot paper is sent to my address, I fill it in, seal it in an envelope, sign my name of a form which is placed in a second envelope together with the first, and then dropped in the post. (Or as actually happens someone who does have acceptable voter ID hands it in at the poilling station.)
I know that my vote counts because for a local political party I process our copy of the electoral roll and post-election marked registers. First thing I check on receipt of the latter is that my vote was counted. Should say that marked registers do not record how the vote was cast only that a paper was issued and received back.
Hopefully the next government will revoke that statute and we can go back to not needing stuff.
As to valid ids turns out that military ID cards were not acceptable! Amended subsequently. Also travel passes for elderly people are accepted (current government believes older people more likely to vote for them) but the same passes for young people are not (because statistically younger people are less likely to vote Conservative).
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I wouldn’t only make decisions based on what you see, but also what you don’t see. Which is the data often ignored due to survivorship bias . Another danger is using linear regression in cases where non-linear regression models the situation better.