The application of the new digital ID records more than 400,000 downloads in the first 24 hours | Spain
The application that will allow you to carry on the mobile phone The new digital ID approved last Tuesday by the Council of Ministers And that it was launched this Wednesday at 8 in the morning has registered in its first 24 hours more than 400,000 downloads in Android and IOS operating systems, according to sources from the Interior Ministry. This document, which will live with the physicist and that is voluntary, It will allow its owner to identify showing it in his telephone terminal To carry out face -to -face procedures before public and private entities, such as opening a bank account, renting a vehicle or registering in a hotel. It may also be shown to public agents or officials that require an identifying document. However, it will not be valid to cross borders or abroad. Until its implementation is completed in 2026, it cannot be used in the internet procedures.
The application to be downloaded to be able to carry the digital ID on the mobile phone it’s called midni and it’s free. « He is the only officer with legal support to prove the identity equivalent to the physical ID, for which he generates a QR signed and sealed by the National Police that guarantees the authenticity of the data shown in real time and certifies that they are updated and are valid at the time of verification, » he warned last Tuesday the Ministry of the Interior in a note to prevent citizens from confusing it with others as » « DNI Wallet » that appear on Google or Apple application platforms and have no validity to officially identify.
To be able to distinguish it from the false ones, Interior remembers what the official application logo is like: it has the navy blue background and uses the blue and white blue to write Midni, united and everything in capital letters. The first part (MI) is light blue and the second (DNI) blank. At the bottom of it has a fragment of a European flag and another of a Spanish flag. It is also indicated that it is an application developed by the National Police. It can be downloaded in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and English. « The use of this application (MIDNI) prevents the manipulation or falsification of the data, which will not be stored or on the mobile that requests the identification or in which it verifies the identity of the owner of the Digital DNI, » the department of Fernando Grande-Marlaska stressed after its presentation.
To have the digital ID you have to give three steps. First, to make a previous record to link the identity of the citizen to a mobile phone number – only one – in which the application will be downloaded. For this, it is necessary that the physical document is in force and have active electronic certificates. All this can be done through the web www.midni.gob.esin any of the documentation update positions (PAD, machines similar to cashiers with keyboard and screen) that are at police stations or municipalities, or at the time of renewing the physical ID at a police station.
Once this record is made, the application is downloaded, the user is registered and you can start using it. Midni needs to have a data connection, since it generates the QR code every time the card owner is needed to identify. Interior has stressed that the application does not keep the identity data of the citizen on the phone, but is used to make a real -time consultation to the police through it. The owner of the document can decide which data wants to show based on the use you are going to give, since it is not necessary to show them all in all situations. The three options are to show photography, name, surname and age; another in which, in addition, the genre and the date of validity of the ID, and one last with the information of the complete document.
Once the level of information that you want to share on each occasion is selected, the application generates a QR code shown on the DNI holder phone screen. That code, generated by the National Police at the same time, ensures that the data is authentic and remains visible for only 60 seconds to allow verification. After this period, it loses its validity and it will be necessary to generate a new code. The QR code can be scanned by any other device in which the MIDNI application has been installed. In doing so, the data that the citizen has decided to show will appear on the user screen. This information remains on the screen for a short period of time and will not be stored on the verifier phone.
