Google is now rolling out the power to make a digital ID out of your passport that you could retailer in Google Wallet and use at choose TSA checkpoints — however solely as a generic type of ID. It doesn’t function a passport itself, Google spokesperson Liz Schulten tells The Verge: “The digital ID can’t be used at immigration and border management.”
Select the immediate within the Google Wallet app to “create an ID go along with your U.S. passport” and comply with the directions to scan the safety chip behind your passport. You’ll be requested to take a selfie video to confirm your id, and Google Wallet will notify you when your ID go is prepared (usually inside a couple of minutes).
However, in that weblog publish, Google additionally cautions {that a} digital ID in Google Wallet is “not a substitute on your bodily ID” and that it’s best to nonetheless carry a bodily ID when touring “for now.”
The digital ID characteristic shall be out there to “all eligible customers within the coming weeks,” in response to Jenny Cheng, VP and GM of Google Wallet. You can see a map of which airports settle for digital IDs on the TSA’s web site.
Cheng additionally shared that New Mexico driver’s licenses and state IDs may be saved in Google Wallet. New Mexico is the sixth state to assist the characteristic, 9to5Google stories.
Correction, December sixth: Our authentic headline mentioned Google Wallet can exchange your passport with this new digital ID characteristic, however Google now tells us that the ID can’t be used at immigration and border management.
