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[19.6.2019] The AusweisApp2 is expected to arrive on the iPhone in the fall of 2019. Reason is the additional opening of the NFC interface with iOS 13.
Apple's opening of the NFC interface in iOS 13 should make it possible to directly use the online identification of the ID card and the electronic residence permit from the iPhone via Bluetooth card readers external. It's on heise online to learn.
AusweisApp2, necessary for the use of the electronic identity card, exists for two good years on Android (report that we published). Until now, the iOS app has only been distributed through a semi-open field test – and required external hardware. With the release of iOS 13, it should then be available for download via the App Store, announced the Federal Ministry of the Interior as a result of the WWDC developer conference. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany and many other countries had long been in contact with Apple during the opening of the NFC.
AusweisApp2, which was developed on behalf of the government of Governikus, has not been able to rely on the NFC interface of the iPhone so far, with Apple severely limiting its functionality, as indicated on heise online . It is only that in the past two years, the iPhone manufacturer has begun to gradually open the payment system Apple Pay Nahfunkschnittstelle previously used for third-party applications. (Ba)
To the article on heise online of June 17, 2019 (Deep Link)
https://www.personalausweisportal.de
Field Test Registration on iOS (Deep Link)
Keywords: digital identity, eID, identity card, iOS, Apple
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