BankID in discussions with the police: a digital ID card as a driver's license

When you ask BankID today if you can use their digital ID card in the BankID Mobile app as a driver's license, the answer is no. It's not quite working yet. However, this may change in the future.

It is the person who verifies your identity, in any applicable context, who determines the types of identity documents approved. Mobile BankID indicates that they are You have contact with the police Hopefully, they will choose to accept digital ID cards. Mobile BankID then informs and educates the police about this matter according to its own statement.

The police themselves Indicates Digital ID cards downloaded via BankID “do not currently apply” as police identification.

When BankID issued its digital ID card in the BankID app, it was not approved for age verification in Systembolaget, but since then, Systembolaget has added BankID's digital ID card to those approved for identification in Systembolaget.

Banks themselves, for example, are working on how to use digital ID cards in bank offices for identification. However, an actual passport, driver's license or ID card is still the one that applies today.