Austria The Austrian mobile driver's license was launched in October 2022. It is available through the governmental "eAusweise" app, which holds further official digital documents, such as the digital vehicle registration, digital identity verification, and digital age verification. The Austrian mobile driver's license acts as an official document equivalent to the physical
driver's license. It can be presented as official proof at
traffic stops without requiring an active internet connection. Since the launch of the digital vehicle registration in February 2024, the mobile driver’s license and the digital vehicle registration can be shown simultaneously within one QR code. The Austrian mobile driver's license and all other documents of "eAusweise" are developed by „youniqx Identity AG“, a digital subsidiary of the Austrian State Printing Company (OSD), for the
Austrian Federal Computing Centre (BRZ). The Austrian mobile driver's license is developed according to the internationally recognized
ISO standard (ISO/IEC 18013-5) and is compatible with EU requirements for the upcoming EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI) in accordance with
eIDAS 2.0.
Canada In 2020,
Ontario, in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic, announced a "Digital Identity Program," including a mobile driver's license.
Denmark In November 2020, Denmark publicly released a digital/mobile driving licence using a proprietary app implementation using a QR code, also not conforming to the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard. Similar to Iceland's implementation, it is fully equivalent to physical IDs, however only valid in Denmark.
Iceland Iceland was the second country in Europe to introduce a digital/mobile driver's licence in July 2020.
Icelandic driving licence holders can request a digital version of their licence online by using their
electronic ID (Icelandic: rafræn skilríki) and is issued as a
.pkpass file loaded into the
Wallet app on
iPhone or a third-party app on
Android. Digital driving licences display the same information as a physical licence, along with a barcode (renewed regularly by the server, acting as verification). Commercial establishments (e.g. for proof of age) can use the island.is app to verify barcodes. The licences are equally valid as official ID, even for voting, however only within Iceland. The implementation does not conform to the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard. As of August 2022, 60% of driver's licences have been issued in digital/mobile form.
Kazakhstan In November 2020,
Kazakhstan introduced a digital version of the
Kazakh driving licence through the government app
eGov Mobile, under the "Digital Documents" service. The mobile licence displays the same information as the physical card and is legally valid for identification within Kazakhstan. By 2025, the eGov Mobile app had more than 11 million registered users, with 5.8 million active monthly users, and about 45% of public services were accessed through digital documents, including mobile driving licences.
Mexico The first instance of an electronic driver's license was deployed in Mexico as early as 2007, using the
Gemalto smart-card platform. In 2016, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (
NIST) partnered with Gemalto to pilot the "digital driver's license" in
Washington D.C.,
Idaho,
Colorado,
Maryland and
Wyoming.
New Zealand The New Zealand Government and
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi have been working to make digital driver's licenses available. In 2025, Digitising Government minister
Judith Collins announced that she hoped digital driver's licenses would be available by the end of the year, implemented in a "Govt.NZ" app. The first reading of the Regulatory Systems (Transport) Amendment Bill passed with support from all political parties, despite coalition partner
Winston Peters introducing a Member's Bill to limit the use of digital IDs in New Zealand. The government also released the NZ Verify app in 2025, which allows users to verify digital IDs issued in Australia and the United States using the ISO standard. The app was aimed at allowing tourism operators such as car rental companies to verify digital driver's licenses of overseas visitors.
United States Louisiana The first mDL that claims compliance with ISO/IEC 18013-5 is
Louisiana's, developed in part by Envoc, a software firm in
Baton Rouge, whose president claimed that most drivers under 40 won't go back home if they forget their physical laminated license, "but if they forget their phone, they always turn around."
Colorado Colorado was the first state to deploy a production version of a digital license, primarily based on
QR codes stored in a
digital wallet, which it claims is accepted by
police officers throughout the state. After going through the standard process at the state
Department of Motor Vehicles, volunteers installed the "DigiDL" app on their phones and then downloaded the license. Volunteers tested the digital driver's license in stores, the
Colorado Lottery claim center, and an
art fair.
European digital driving licence On 21 October 2025, the
European Parliament approved the creation of a European digital driving licence, according to the internationally recognized
ISO standard (ISO/IEC 18013-5) and compatible with the EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI) in accordance with
eIDAS 2.0. This follows the 'Proposal for a Revision of the Directive on Driving Licences' on 1 March 2023. == Operating system support ==