iOS 15.1 Beta Lets Users Add COVID Vaccination Card To Wallet App (macrumors.com) 87
The iOS 15.1 beta that was introduced today allows iPhone users to upload their COVID-19 vaccination status to the Health app and then generate a vaccination card in Apple Wallet. MacRumors reports: The Apple Wallet vaccination card can be shown to businesses, venues, restaurants, and more that are requiring vaccines for entry. As outlined in an announcement to developers, verifiable health records are based on the SMART Health Cards specification. California is using SMART Health Cards, so users in California can add their vaccination records to the Wallet app after installing iOS 15.1. Other states and health organizations that use the SMART Health Cards will be able to use a button to let users know that they can download and store their vaccination information in the Health app and in the Wallet app.
California, Louisiana, New York, Virginia, Hawaii, and some Maryland counties support Smart Health Cards, as do Walmart, Sam's Club, and CVS Health. So those in the specific supported states should be able to look up their information in state databases, but those who were vaccinated through companies like Walmart and CVS will also be able to add their information to the Health and Wallet apps because it's the same system.
California, Louisiana, New York, Virginia, Hawaii, and some Maryland counties support Smart Health Cards, as do Walmart, Sam's Club, and CVS Health. So those in the specific supported states should be able to look up their information in state databases, but those who were vaccinated through companies like Walmart and CVS will also be able to add their information to the Health and Wallet apps because it's the same system.
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Just remember who's actions brought us to this point.
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Oh shut up with that mark of the beast bullshit. You people bitched about barcodes, QR codes and a whole host of other things. Your fairy tales of the Devil don't matter to the rest of us. We just laugh at you.
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Problem is most people get it wrong anyway.
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Funny enough he is right that the Chinese love this number. Liu Liu Liu, 666, is a way to say something is cool in Chinese. However, generally a lot of this has to do with similar sounding words. Another instance is the number 8, ba, which often is associated with wealth because it sounds like fa.
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Oh shut up with that mark of the beast bullshit. You people bitched about barcodes, QR codes and a whole host of other things. Your fairy tales of the Devil don't matter to the rest of us. We just laugh at you.
We all know that the real mark of the beast will come with the year of the linux desktop!
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Just remember who's actions brought us to this point.
We wouldn’t need the nanny state shit if people would just put on their grownup pants and get their shot(s). Freedom has never meant freedom from being a responsible member of society.
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"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." -- John Milton
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Preach it brother.
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How cute, you think it was 9/11 that engineered the nanny state. The PATRIOT act was just another nail in the coffin built by wicked v filburn.
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Fucking autocorrect. Wickard v filburn.
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So mandates happen to bring the vaccination rate up - vaccinate or lose your job, vaccinate or it will be a pain in the ass to travel,
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"For the common good" (Score:1)
Is there something — anything — in your book, that is not justified by the "Common Good"?
Would you expect the same for the, for example, transsexuals — people surgically or even just chemically mutilated in the vain hope of changing their sex (which Mammals are incapable of doing)? Not only are these procedures costly themselves, they invite life-long elevated risks [nbcnews.com]
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Is there something — anything — in your book, that is not justified by the "Common Good"?
Yes. What a stupid question. Maybe you believe in the slippery slope fallacy, I don't.
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Slippery Slope [wikipedia.org] is not a fallacy — without the "clear bright line" between the valid and invalid applications of a rule, slipping from the former into latter is not only possible, but inevitable.
This is why I asked you, where your line is — a question you answered only evasively... Which, I must admit, is still better than your treatment of my second question...
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I feel bad for the folks who died during the 1918/19 pandemic ... they didn't have Orwell to use as a bad analogy.
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You should — an American's risk of dying from "Spanish Flu" (which term no one considered "racist" at the time, by the way), was about four times higher than the risk of COVID-19 so far.
But they never even contemplated the restrictions and the mandates we're discussing — and even implementing — today.
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Only for the actually sick.
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They were lucky with the Spanish Flu - no asymptomatic spreaders. That really complicates things.
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I'll just note, that while you, BranMan, explain why there weren't such nation-wide restrictions a century ago, the OP (EvilSS) continues to claim, that there were.
Despite this obvious disagreement, neither of you argues with the other, however, you both are attacking me :-)
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I think you are misinterpreting my comment, sir. No attack. Just pointing out, in comment on your comment that in 1918+ there were the same kind of restrictions in place, but only for those who were sick (paraphrasing quite a bit).
My comment was that CoVid very much differs from the Spanish Flu. Right now I have no symptoms at all - as far as I know, I am healthy and not a danger to anyone. In actuality, I may have CoVid-19, I may be completely asymptomatic, and I may be spraying virus particles in a cl
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Only for the actually sick.
Ah, no, for everyone. Maybe go actually read up instead of assuming you actually know anything about the subject.
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Nope...
You would've offered citations by this point, if you had any. And you don't, because there were no such nation-wide measures at all, different cities reacted differently [history.com]. San Francisco mandated masks, for example, but they weren't effective (khmm...)
With modern tyranny of the federal government, we're all forced to make the same mistakes. Is wearing a mask stupid [bbc.com] — deserving of mockery [theonion.com] — or should you wear two [cnbc.com]?
The governmental "scientists", who
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But it's obvious your a Trumpster moron so consider this the end of the discussion. I don't debate with cultists.
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You mean like the paperwork your parents and many other parents today have to show is in order as far as vaccines so that school can be attended?
STOP acting as if proof of vaccination is a NEW thing. It's not. So pull up your big boy pants and just deal with it.
Civil unrest .. indeed ... why not just beg for change at off-ramps like the crazies use to do before the internet.
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You mean like the paperwork your parents and many other parents today have to show is in order as far as vaccines so that school can be attended?
Exactly.
Having to provide proof of vaccination once a year to enroll a kid in school is exactly the same thing as having to show a QR code to people stationed outside of...essentially everywhere...such that you have to show it multiple times every time you leave your house. No difference there in any way at all.
And by the way people should have to show it to vote, by mail or in person. No one wants to handle envelopes from the unvaccinated.
And since you have to show proof of residency to get back i
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I have no problem proving vaccination for school, work, renting an apartment, or even tax refunds. I *do* have a problem with government ID requirements to enter every indoor space, possibly multiple times per day, combined with digital scans of said IDs. This can easily be used to generate location data on a significant portion of the population. It would be extremely useful for law enforcement enforcing laws OTHER than public health rules. The goal should be to go back to the privacy status quo as far
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Exactly. "Papers please." If this lasts after COVID is mitigated, it needs to be met with civil unrest.
Just imagine how blown your mind will be when you need to show a ticket to go to a football game.
The only place you're currently required to show papers are private establishments which could direct you to fuck off for nearly any reason they want. Please take your "papers please" fantasy back to your weird anti-government feverdream.
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The ticket isn't an ID, since you could have bought it from a scalper.
Neither is a vaccine card which you could have also bought from a scalper.
I have an issue with the fact that this may morph into a de-facto requirement to show ID
And yet in places around the world where it has been *competently* adopted rather than just a stupid piece of paper, no personally identifiable information is shown. Instead it hides behind a cryptographic verification code.
Your freedoms end where other people's being. If they demand to know who you are before you enter, then tough. This is no more of a "paper's please" moment then being required to show proof of purchase of your conc
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COMPETENTLY! Which isn't a watchword in the USA. NY has a digital vaccine pass (Excelsior). The QR code contains full name, DOB, and last vaccine date (actually expiration date, which is last vaccine + 365 days). This is more than enough to uniquely identify most people, and this can easily be logged via a QR scanner app, since the data is presented in plain text, with a digitally signed hash to verify authenticity.
By contrast, the Netherlands is much more concerned about digital privacy. Their pass c
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Here's the problem -- whatever URL it directs the user to now "knows" that your information was requested by a certain IP, thus creating a timestamped approximate location of where you were.
BTW, that's NOT how most systems work, at least in the US. Most systems have a QR code containing name, DOB, expiration date, vax dates, etc in plain text, signed with a private key that only the issuing entity knows. If you scan the vaccine passport, you can log at least the name and DOB of everyone entering a given l
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Here's the problem -- whatever URL it directs the user to now "knows" that your information was requested by a certain IP, thus creating a timestamped approximate location of where you were.
Better than nothing I say.
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My other proposal is better than BOTH nothing and current systems, since it's secure against sharing of vaccine cards, but it also doesn't extend the surveillance state or have any use OTHER than verifying vaccination status. A secure physical ID which matches the physical characteristics of the holder, but doesn't provide any info about the holder other than vaccination status is the best of all worlds.
True, physical characteristics like appearance and weight change over time, but this is temporary. Righ
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You realize this is just ONE LESS PIECE OF PAPER to keep track of, right?
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We have these big-ass QR codes that tell us about which COVID-19 vaccinations we received, where, dates, etc.
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We have these big-ass QR codes that tell us about which COVID-19 vaccinations we received, where, dates, etc.
Our QR codes here in MB only have your name, and your vaccinated status, yes or no. Nothing about which vaccines, where or when. That information is not necessary for verification purposes.
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Apparently they're called SMART health cards [smarthealth.cards] and are growing to be a universal standard for health information carried in a portable well structured format.
They carry a name and date of birth and either things like
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China has a similar setup. QR codes are a kind of two factor system. We scan when entering and we get a reply code to show. The codes are color codes and change if we were in any areas of risk. Vaccine status is shown via a border but I assume is encoded too. You also get a vaccine card. Vaccines are attached to your phone number which is attached to We chat which can handle the scanning of QR codes and etc. Modern China loves it's QR codes though for advertising, payment, and examples like this.
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Most countries do. The USA as one of the world's most technologically advanced countries just loves to show off how arse backwards they are.
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Stop with the smart marketing already. I've got a 'smart' middle finger for you marketing people.
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Just think, if you had a SMART middle finger instead your post would be on-topic!
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Its still marketing when you name the company SMART and put it in all caps. They have to yell it at you because they are trying that hard to convince you. They have to work hard to convince you that you want the electronic Gestapo. If keeping covid out is the goal then require a test, not a fucking QR code.
Am I so lame that I cannot handle a small, official, paper record? I don't need a fucking app for that, I especially don't need a SMART one.
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wow it wasn't THAT humbling. yeesh
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It's a atandard, and it can be used to contain vaccine results,
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If the goal is to keep covid out then require a test, not a QR code.
Just keep yelling SMART until enough people believe that QR codes prevent disease.
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Heh. Try hard.
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Iâ(TM)ve already done this (Score:1)
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...and evil is on the other side.
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I had relatives who died in the camps. Your comment is not only offensive but wrong. Comparing proof of vaccination with 15 million dead in the camps makes you not only bad at history but a dillhole as well. Do you masterbate to Bobart and Greene? Or is Matt Gaetz more your speed?
You should stop using a tragedy such as the holocaust as a comparison to anything except those in real camps and those who really do have to carry papers or be jailed/deported ... remember those camps at the border? That's closer t
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Got my shots at Safeway's Pharmacy, and they sent me an e-mail that let me load the vaccination proof to Wallet.
I haven't had an opportunity to use it yet, but it's nice to have it there - at least I get some use from the Wallet app.
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I've had tmine saved in my Google wallet on my phone for a while now. Only thing I have in it. I'm surprised it took apple this long. They're usually ahead of the curve/influence the curve.
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article is dumb. ios already does this. even my mum has a vaccine certificate in her apple wallet.
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It’s already possible to add it to Apple/Google Wallet, since that’s an open format for which any agency or organization can generate items. This is talking about adding it to one’s health data as a standardized, potentially verifiable medical record.
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Which is fine if all you need to do is show someone a QR code to get in a building, and is something Apple already supports the same as Google, but that's kinda missing the point. The wallet apps on both Android and iOS are analogous to web browsers: most of what they do is act like a dumb renderer displaying JSON content that's in a standard format, in much the same way that an HTML page will be written in a standard format, hence why they almost all work across both Android and iOS.
But, just like web page
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iOS Already does this? (Score:2)
iOS already does this. Even my mum has a vaccine certificate in her Apple wallet.
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COVID Vaccination card? (Score:2)
USA company solves problem that USA government created for USA based people. Imagine if the government had a competent system of tracking vaccinations in the first place then you wouldn't need to rely on a single company solving problems which didn't need to be solved.
Greetings from a country where you can use any smartphone to show your digital vaccination status.
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My guess is Apple did this because they WANTED to make it marginally simpler by adding the card to the Wallet app where all of one's other cards are, especially for the less phone savvy.
So greetings
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So greetings back from another country where you also can use any smartphone to show your digital vaccination status.
No, your vaccination status is a crappy screenshot of an easily fakable document rather than a cryptographically signed and verifiable digital code. Please don't compare your ability to take a photo to that of literally every other country.
And that's before you get into fucked up debates of whether a picture of a document is as valid as a document itself.
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In several EU countries I've had the border guards asking me to show that the vaccination QR code was displayed by the actual application instead of being just a screenshot (if I tap on the code in the application, it shows the details of both vaccinations).
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The thing is Apple didn't NEED to do this. I'm still on iOS 14 and simply took a screenshot of the phone-sized card that's displayed upon request from California's system's web site and saved it to the Files app. (Or you could save it to Photos instead.) And you can take a screenshot and save it on ANY phone.
My guess is Apple did this because they WANTED to make it marginally simpler by adding the card to the Wallet app where all of one's other cards are, especially for the less phone savvy.
So greetings back from another country where you also can use any smartphone to show your digital vaccination status.
Apple didn't do this to be good citizens. What do they get out of it?
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