# mobile-drivers-license

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/mobile-drivers-license/
Last updated: 2026-08-29
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A driver's license issued to a phone wallet under the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard, presentable in person and increasingly online. It supports selective disclosure, letting a holder share only age or a photo rather than the full document. Rolling out across US states and other jurisdictions.

mDL is the first widely deployed verifiable credential most people will actually hold, and its in-person mode is what makes it different: the verifier reads it over NFC or QR without network access, so a bar can check age offline. The online presentation path is newer and converging with the OpenID4VP stack the EU wallet uses, which is why mDL and EUDI are increasingly the same technical conversation.

See also: [digital wallet](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/digital-wallet/), [selective disclosure](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/selective-disclosure/), [verifiable credentials](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/verifiable-credentials/), [national digital ID schemes](https://startwithidentity.com/digital-ids/)