France Identité has made its sandbox build available on iOS, giving iPhone users and relying parties a way to test the same mobile identity flows already available in the Android sandbox. Both versions support OID4VP 1.0, the OpenID for Verifiable Presentations protocol used to let a mobile wallet present selected identity attributes to a verifier.
The immediate use case is age verification. France Identité says the sandbox can support end-to-end tests in which a verifier asks for proof that a user meets an age threshold, while the app presents only the needed attribute rather than a full identity record. The program also completed an unlinkability test for age assurance in real conditions, showing that separate age checks can be performed without allowing the identity provider to track the same user across transactions.
That privacy model is central to Europe’s wider mobile wallet plan. The European Digital Identity Wallet is intended to let residents store and present official credentials from a smartphone, while using selective disclosure to share only what a transaction requires. France is one of the member states preparing national age-verification functions for that wallet environment, alongside broader work on an EU age verification app for smartphone rollout.
The iOS sandbox also builds on France’s existing mobile identity program. The France Identité app already supports the country’s digital national ID card and has been expanding into practical uses such as travel and proxy voting, even as polling-station acceptance has remained limited. France’s EUDI Wallet implementation is also being coordinated through a national memorandum involving France Titres, Orange Business, Sopra Steria, and Thales, which MIDW has covered as a coordination boost for France’s wallet effort.
For mobile users, the sandbox marks another step toward phone-based credentials that can prove specific facts, such as age, without showing a full ID card.
Sources: France Identité
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By the Mobile ID World Editorial Team
