Although the DNI 4.0 already exists, there is still one pending issue: that it be integrated into mobile phones, so that we have the digital national identity document in hand on the phone to be able to use it officially in our procedures or show it to the authorities with the same validity as the physical document.
We can already do all of this with our driving licence thanks to the MiDGT app, but until DNI 4.0 reaches mobile phones, it will still be necessary to carry our wallet when we leave the house.
Although there are apps to carry your ID on your mobile phone, the reality is that they are not official and that, with all the reasons in the world, giving our identity document to third parties generates a certain mistrust. So One day I discovered that I already had my ID always at hand on my mobile phone without knowing it and I perfected the way to do it.
My ID was already on my phone, but I didn’t know it
Over the last few years I have had to look for and change flats a few times, which involves dealing with real estate agents and providing them with documents to carry out the process. Among them, ID cards. So when at a certain moment I needed my national identity document and I didn’t have it with meit occurred to me that it had to be in my email.
Performing a quick search, I found it. Let me say in advance that as I commented in the intrountil the administration launches DNI 4.0 on mobile, any digital ID that you show It has no legal validity because only the physical card is valid.But there are other scenarios where it can get you out of trouble, for example when you are asked for it to enter a gaming room or accommodation.
So I perfected the technique and directly forwarded an email to myself with the subject DNI and only my DNI in PDF, so that with a search I have it immediately without needing to load anything else. The big advantage is that I am not dependent on the deviceso I have it when I need it as long as I have a computer, phone or tablet with internet access on hand to access my email.
In it has toI need to have internet access to access the document. Also, the ID was already saved in my Gmail from previous sendings, so it is not an added risk to what already existed, although it is: I have it in my email “seriously” I use it for administrative or banking matters and only for important things. Other colleagues like Iván Linares save it in their cloud services. And you, do you have a copy of your digital ID on your mobile phone? If so, how do you manage it?