Post #3124676
2026-03-27 10:30 UTC
So the verification procedure insists on government ID, but doesn't work with one of the two forms of government ID generally available in the UK.
Most UK citizens will currently have no access to a Government-backed 'digital identity service' (and won't until the Gov.UK Wallet comes out).
There are third party digital identity services such as the Post Office EasyID scheme that are backed by government documents, but Apple doesn't work with them. (3/7)
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@gmh@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 10:43
Apple are trying to pass the buck. The internal corporate line at Apple, as repeated twice by different levels of support, is that they did this because the UK Government told them to. This is arse-covering bullshit and I told them as much (politely). What they will have been given is the seven Ofcom-approved methods of HEAA and told to comply with that. Apple's implementation of three of those seven HEAA methods - and the lack of fallbacks - is solely the result of decisions at Apple. (4/7)