GOV.UK ID Check 4+

Just used this app to verify my ID when changing address with HMRC. I thought it was really good and worked like a dream for me. It uses the phone to read the photo from the chip on your passport then uses facial recognition to check it is really you. It seems like overkill for an HMRC address change. It is likely to lead to info not being up to date because it makes it harder. However, it feels like a really useful app for remote ID verification. I hope that they will licence it beyond government applications. It gets really bad reviews here so clearly not everyone has such a positive experience as me. However, if my experience is not unique, it seems they may have cracked it!

This app is amazing. I had to get a new Gov ID so I was apprehensive about securing my access with 2FA and the Gov ID app. I was interested to see if it worked as it would make my account highly secure but would I have to wait for my Gov ID password to be received in the post? Absolutely not! This worked like a dream. I set my online account up with Google Authenticator and used the Gov ID app for facial verification and inside 20 minutes I’m all done and synchronised to me home computer. This is like MI5 working with Mission Impossible. This is how security should be. Great work Gov. proud to be British again.

Absolutely brilliant and easy to follow the instructions for scanning your passport and using the app etc. Artificial Intelligence at its best and no having to deal with a human on the other end of a phone after waiting for over an hour … all of these people will soon be replaced by A.I. anyway and will become available to pick the country’s fruit & vegetables … so a win win situation for everyone!