Afrigather Android customers taking part in a pilot program can now add their California driver’s licenses to Google Pockets. The “cellular driver’s license” program is at present open to 1.5 million Californians, and beforehand solely allowed digital IDs within the state’s “CA DMV Pockets” app for iOS and Android.
“It’s by no means been simpler to maintain a digital driver’s license and identification card in California,” stated Governor Gavin Newsom in a press release yesterday, “The state continues to work to supply comfort for these opting into the cellular driver’s license program, now with the choice of utilizing Google Pockets.”
California introduced earlier this month that it’ll additionally enable Apple Pockets digital IDs quickly. These within the pilot will nonetheless have to hold their bodily IDs, and outdoors of “choose retail areas and TSA airports,” legislation enforcement, state authorities businesses, and companies aren’t but accepting digital IDs, in line with the California DMV’s website.
