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It… Works?

It worked with my Italian passport but my Argentine passport chip expiration date didn’t match the passport. It was only valid for 3 years but my passport is valid for 10 years. Should I be concerned? The passports are fairly new: 2021 and 2019 for the one with the problem.

Pana-k-os

3 years ago

Worked once only

Worked once for reading my passport rfid but then never again. The instructions are somewhat contradictory; it clearly says to not move while trying to read the chip, then in another place it says to move slowly up and down.

Thomaswww

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review. The 'not moving' for for once the NFC reading has started, we'll look into making this clearer.^MW

Works on the US passport

It works. Just need to play around until you find the sweet spot where the chip matches your reader. Beware you might need to rotate your phone to be able to match.
After I saw my data on the app, honestly I felt vulnerable. I read the privacy statement on the developer website and they claim they don’t store the data, which is great.
Overall this is a cool app. I can see a lot of use for it for various projects. The world is moving towards contactless tech so this app has potentials. Please don’t store the data though haha :)

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cuKabul

4 years ago

It didn’t do anything of value

It read the info under picture, but that was all it did. It never read the chip. Seems like a pointless app.

TDwig

4 years ago

Good app, really works

Finally an iOS compatible app that actually reads a US passport. It’s tricky when you scan the RFID chip since you have to position the top of the phone exactly around the center of the passport’s back cover. Also, make sure the passport booklet is open, otherwise the cover’s material will block the signal. It’s a security feature built into the passport. I do hope my data can be downloaded into a text file, instead of view only. Also, I tried on two genuine passports. One was issued about 4 years ago, and it shows data authentic and country signer as “SUCCEEDED found a chain to a trust anchor”. The other passport was issued about 3 months ago, and it shows as authenticity not validated, due to the country signer as FAILED. I know for a fact both passports are real, why is the new passport won’t pass authenticity check? Is it because the passport is too new, and the RSA encryption is different? I’m not aware of a security update to US passports in the past 4 years. Can someone explain? Thanks!

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Tommy Lu

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review. US passports are I think the most tricky in the world to read the chip from, good to read is works for you. The app has a list of so-called country certificates built in, for a very new passport it may require not have the associated country certificate. I looked at our statistically data, and think that is what happening here. We'll check if there are new certificates and if so update the app. ^MW

Great app

Apple finally unlocked the potential of the NFC chip to all developers and Real Id have done a wonderful implementation of it. One suggestion of improvement would be to add support for the US passport card.

Petrupaz

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately the US passport card does not have a NFC chip. If you have other info, please email us on readid@innovalor.nl. ^MW

Good, but could be better

Many passports have more information stored that this application can access (fingerprints, iris scans) but does not display. Please include this in a future update.

egeatay

5 years ago

Huh?

What’s the point of this app? It doesn’t save the info anywhere. So it can read my passport... what value does that have to me?

Tout_pret

5 years ago

Does not work on US Passport

I am using an iPhone 11 Pro, running iOS 13.3. I travel internationally half dozen times each year on my US Passport. The app reads my personal info, but chip scanning fails.
Wish it would have worked, but to me, it is useless.

kzfan

5 years ago

Response from developer

We have quite some US users, so not sure what goes wrong. One option is how you try to read the chip. Since US passports have shielding on the outside of the passport, you need read the chip from the inside of the back cover. If that does not work, you could help us submitting a bug report via the button in the top right corner of the app. This does not send personal data, only possible low-level error messages etc to our development team.^MW