Apple as we speak introduced that iPhone customers will be capable to current a driver’s license or ID saved within the Pockets app at taking part companies and venues beginning later this yr. Customers will merely maintain their iPhone or Apple Watch close to the enterprise’s iPhone to confirm their age and id for issues like alcohol, rental vehicles, and extra.
Customers will likely be proven what info is being requested and whether or not the receiving social gathering will likely be storing the knowledge, in response to Apple. Customers will then be requested to authenticate and consent through the use of Face ID or Contact ID. No further {hardware} past an iPhone is required for the enterprise to supply this performance.
Apple introduced this function in a press launch overlaying a number of new services-related options coming to iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17 later this yr. One other function introduced contains the flexibility to arrange recurring Apple Money funds within the Pockets app, on a weekly, biweekly, or month-to-month foundation.
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Brazilian Electronics Firm Revives Lengthy-Working iPhone Trademark Dispute
Apple has been concerned in a long-running iPhone trademark dispute in Brazil, which was revived as we speak by IGB Electronica, a Brazilian shopper electronics firm that initially registered the “iPhone” identify in 2000. IGB Electronica fought a multi-year battle with Apple in an try to get unique rights to the “iPhone” trademark, however finally misplaced, and now the case has been delivered to…
