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Explainer: how to put your Digital Covid Cert on your phone
July 15 2021 07:59 PM
Use one of these two ways to get your Digital Covid Cert onto your smartphone
for official use.
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The Digital Covid Cert can be placed either in your smartphoneâs Covid
Tracker app or in the phoneâs built-in wallet. Photo: Adrian Weckler
By now, most people over 40 have now received their Digital Covid Cert.
But the government sent it out mainly as a piece of paper (in the post) or as a
PDF attached to an email, which is like a scan of a piece of a paper.
Is there a way of using it in a proper digital way from your smartphone?
Yes â there are two ways to do it.
â¦.
1. The Covid Tracker app
The Covid Tracker app has been updated with a new button called âRegister EU
Digital Covid Certificateâ. When you press this, it lets you take a photo of
the âQR codeâ (the square barcode) on your certificate. Then it will
display your name, date of birth and vaccination status, as well as your
certificate ID and other technical details.
Unfortunately, thereâs no way to do it all on the same phone â youâll
have to either print out the cert or photograph it from the email you received,
on another connected device.
2. Through a third party app or online service
You can also sideload your Certâs details to your phoneâs âwalletâ,
where you keep other passes and payment cards.
On Android phones, download the free app Greenpass. Like the Covid Tracker app
process above, it will get you to photograph the QR barcode and will then
incorporate your details into your phoneâs wallet.
For iPhones, go to the free web app Covid19passbook.netlify.app on your
phoneâs Safari browser. This will do the same thing as the Greenpass app,
with the added utility of letting you âimportâ the QR code from a photo on
the same phone (just screenshot the QR code from the email on your phone).
â¦.
Itâs important to note that the Digital Covid Cert is designed mainly as a
verification tool for travelling between countries. At the airport, youâll be
routinely asked for your regular identification, such as a passport, to verify
your identity on the Digital Covid Cert. It will also almost certainly be
scanned by authorities.
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The Digital Covid Cert is easy to copy, meaning it will be weak verification at
pubs and restaurants without supporting identification. Photo: Adrian Weckler
As a âpub passâ or a means of showing a restaurant owner that youâre
vaccinated, the Digital Covid Cert is a lot weaker. The government says that,
where used, this will be subject only to a visual inspection, likely without
the requirement to produce any other form of identification. That means it can
be copied and shared among anyone trying to fool the system.
Independent.ie has already loaded the same Digital Covid Cert onto several
smartphones, with the same official verification turning up on each phone.
Sent from my iPhone
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