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Digital Identity Wallet.

A personal app (mobile or web) that holds Verifiable Credentials, DIDs, and cryptographic keys on behalf of the user, used to authenticate to services and present credentials selectively.

Digital identity wallets are not password managers. Password managers store credentials per service (one password per site, one passkey per RP); wallets store user-held credentials issued by authorities (one driver's license, one diploma, one professional license) that the user presents to many verifiers. The architectures are different — wallets are about presentation of authority-issued claims; password managers are about authentication to individual services.

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Is Apple Wallet a digital identity wallet?

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Last updated 2026-05-15.