The Florida Division of Freeway Security and Motor Automobiles (FLHSMV) has shut down its digital ID app, Florida Good ID, for iPhones and Android telephones. The division emailed customers asking them to delete the app and mentioned it’s searching for one other vendor to assist it revive the service by “early 2025,” in keeping with 9to5Mac.
The state promoted its Good ID app as a contact-free technique to present proof of age or id at shops or when speaking to police, however now it’s gone. In response to a report by the South Florida Solar-Sentinel final 12 months, not many individuals had been utilizing it, with solely 95,000 activations out of greater than 17 million licensed drivers, and plenty of police departments mentioned they weren’t utilizing it, both.
The state division has posted this assertion on its web site:
The Florida Good ID functions can be up to date and improved by a brand new vendor. Presently, the Florida Division of Freeway Security and Motor Automobiles is eradicating the present Florida Good ID utility from the app retailer. Please e-mail FloridaSmartID@flhsmv.gov to obtain notification of future availability.
I’ve been utilizing the Florida good ID for some time and simply acquired an e-mail out of the blue that they’re redeveloping with a brand new vendor and thus the digital ID can’t be used till 2025. What the heck. Florida is such a large number.
— Korin Reid (@korinreid) July 10, 2024
The company reported points with the service close to the tip of June earlier than it was shut down, apparently in early July.
Different states, like Louisiana and New York, are a part of a slowly growing variety of states adopting digital IDs. Like Florida, they’re providing the service by their very own apps, whereas different states like Maryland and Arizona assist digital IDs added to Google Pockets or Apple Pockets.
