For some time now, mobile phones have allowed us to store concert tickets, our membership card for a football team and even our credit card to pay with the phone. However, the possibility of carrying the ID is not yet presentwhich is truly strange given the technological advancement of recent years.
This is a topic that has given a lot to talk about, since it was promised that this option would arrive in application modeAlthough nothing has been heard since then. So it is a question that is worth investigating to find out when people will be able to carry their ID on their mobile without any complications.
The DNI 4.0 already exists, but not the support
The popularly extended DNI 4.0 that we can use from our computers It also receives the name of DNIe or electronic DNI. This extension gives users the pleasure of carrying their National Identity Document on their smartphone, although for the moment it is a possibility that is in progress. stand by.
To carry the DNI on the mobile, a application called DNIe. This app will collect the holder’s biometric data, the necessary certificates and the passport photograph. The main drawback is that there was a promise that this functionality would be available before the end of 2022, but today it continues to be undeveloped. At the moment there is no announced date for its release, so it is difficult to give an exact date.
What is clear is that DNI 4.0 has been in force for more than a year in our lives. However, the development team in charge of the app has not published any information that would allow us to know something about the publication of the program on both Google Play and the App Store. This means that, right now, it is impossible to carry the ID on the phone legally.
Since it was mentioned that it would arrive before the end of 2022, but we still have no news about it. It is hard to imagine that it would end up being available before the end of this year 2023. According to our assumptions, we believe that having the ID on the mobile will not be a possibility until next year 2024although hopefully they surprise us ahead of time.
Can you use a photo of the DNI?
Faced with this impediment, many wonder if it is possible to use a photo of the DNI taken with a mobile phone when carrying out certain administrative procedures. However, the answer to this unknown is negative, so the capture of the National Identity Document is not valid legal of any kind.
That is why, currently, citizens are forced to always carry their DNI with them to be able to identify themselves in any case, either for a process or to provide your identity to the police. What you can use is a photocopy of IDbut this must also be physicalso the virtual format is completely ruled out for the moment, and nobody knows until when it can be…