You have every right to fear it, even today, because you surely have reasons that justify it. But it must be said: the Spanish government has taken good measures to make it increasingly easier to install the digital certificate on the iPhone.
And although in most options it is still necessary to personally go to an administrative office to request this certificate, there is an alternative with which We can do it directly from our iPhone and using our DNIe. Let’s see how we can achieve this using iOS 17.
You can therefore request a digital certificate from the FNMT with your iPhone by simply holding it near your DNIe.
To obtain our digital certificate on iPhone we will need to install the FNMT application, which you can download for free from the App Store. It is compatible with the vast majority of iPhone models, since it only requires iOS 15 to work.
Also have your ID handy, which must be version 3.0 or 4.0, and the accompanying PIN. Previous versions of the DNIe are not compatible, but you can always renew it. Once you have installed the app, follow these steps:
- Open the FNMT app.
- Click on “Request a digital certificate”.
- Click on the “Read DNIe” option.
- Enter an email:
- Bring your DNIe closer to the top of the iPhone and Enter your PIN if the app asks you to.
- Enter the verification code you received in your email. It will take a few seconds to reach you.
- Enter the CAN number of the DNIe, you have it on the card itself, in the lower right corner, as you can see in the example image.
- About bringing the DNIe back to the iPhone for reading:
Once these steps have been completed, the application will indicate that the request has been made and the certificate will have been uploaded in the ‘Requests’ section of the application. Remember that this will be a document in .p12 format that you will need to install as a profile on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
iPhone NFC will soon have more uses
Being able to request our certificate by simply showing our identity document, or reload our transport ticket by making the same gesture will be the tip of the iceberg. iOS 17.4 introduces significant changes to the system, and one of them opens the iPhone’s NFC chip to adapt to new European laws.
Thanks to this, it is likely that many other companies and developers will use this NFC chip for products and services that until now have not been sufficiently integrated. I am thinking, for example, of the Catalan T-Mobilitat which still cannot be transported inside the phone although it has been possible to do so on Android for years.
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