{"id":110781,"date":"2024-07-10T23:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T23:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/floridas-digital-id-app-has-suddenly-disappeared\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T23:46:35","slug":"floridas-digital-id-app-has-suddenly-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/floridas-digital-id-app-has-suddenly-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s digital ID app has suddenly disappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n      <figcaption>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"f99x5V\">The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/floridasmartid\/smartidfaq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down its digital ID app<\/a>, Florida Smart ID, for iPhones and Android phones. The department emailed users asking them to delete the app and said it\u2019s looking for another vendor to help it revive the service by \u201cearly 2025,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/07\/10\/florida-abruptly-ends-support-for-digital-drivers-licenses-on-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to <em>9to5Mac<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"SlB0i6\">The state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/floridasmartid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoted its Smart ID app as a contact-free way<\/a> to show proof of age or identity at stores or when talking to police, but now it\u2019s gone. According to a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2023\/04\/03\/florida-has-spent-1-5-million-developing-smartphone-id-apps-that-hardly-anyone-is-using\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>South Florida Sun-Sentinel<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>last year, not many people were using it, with only 95,000 activations out of more than 17 million licensed drivers, and many police departments said they weren\u2019t using it, either.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fvjWRR\">The state department has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/floridasmartid\/smartidfaq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted this&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/10\/24196044\/florida-smart-id-digital-state-id-app-shut-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/10\/24196044\/florida-smart-id-digital-state-id-app-shut-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has shut down its digital ID app, Florida Smart ID, for iPhones and Android phones. The department emailed users asking them to delete the app and said it\u2019s looking for another vendor to help it revive the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-110781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}