The government has introduced a new Aadhaar mobile app to streamline identity verification processes, making them quicker, safer, and more convenient for citizens. With this app, users can carry and share their digital identity using their mobile phones, eliminating the need for physical cards or photocopies. This innovation aims to expedite identity checks at various locations like airports, hotels, hospitals, and service platforms.
The Aadhaar mobile app offers features such as QR code-based offline verification for hotel check-ins, optional face verification for authentication, and age verification for activities like movie ticket bookings. It is designed to cater to a wide range of real-life scenarios, including hotel check-ins, face verification, age verification for cinema bookings, hospital admissions, and verification of service providers.
Users can easily manage their Aadhaar profiles through the app, including locking or unlocking biometrics with a single click and viewing authentication history. The app supports up to five Aadhaar profiles on a single device under the “One Family-One App” feature. Additionally, users can update their registered mobile numbers through the app, reducing the need to visit Aadhaar update centers for minor changes.
The app ensures data security by not storing Aadhaar numbers with verifying agencies during data sharing. Only digitally signed and verified data is exchanged, aligning with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act to mitigate the risk of misuse. Developed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the app was unveiled by Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Electronics and IT, Jitin Prasada.
