Digital driving licences coming this year(2025)?

Will work ok for those with a smart phone I suppose.

You will still be able to have the plastic one.
I remember my father’s little red book one, it was small with a cardboard cover.
As an aside, he also had a document that allowed him to commandeer and drive any military vehicle during WW2. I’ve no idea why! It was among his belongings, but I can’t find it now. It would have been interesting to pass it on to the War Museum.

Great, should be able to set up reminders for MOT etc I hope.

I suppose it means you'll always have it with you if it's on your phone.

My first licence was a little red book. I've still got it!

I have only ever had a paper license, haven’t moved, under 70.

I've still got a green paper licence.

Many have them here but I still like my plastic one. I’m always losing my phone, too dangerous. They don’t have paper ones, ours look like credit cards.

Jaxjacky

Great, should be able to set up reminders for MOT etc I hope.

You can set up a reminder on the gov.uk, breakdown services or some insurance sites.

I do Elowen thanks, it’d be good to be in one place though, also could be used for ID.

Jaxjacky

Great, should be able to set up reminders for MOT etc I hope.

You can already set up reminders for MOT on a gov.uk website

I took a photo of mine & put in my notes on my phone, handy for picking up parcels, so I suppose I already have digitally 😊

I am another who has only ever had the green paper driving license. I'm in my early/ mid 60s. My memory is still ok, so I 'recall' them perfectly.
As for the supposed advantage of being to set up reminders for MOTs with digital licenses, I find that writing such dates on an actual paper calendar has always worked just fine. 😂

I don’t have a paper calendar Oldnproud I’m doing most things online, but thank you.

Jaxjacky

I don’t have a paper calendar Oldnproud I’m doing most things online, but thank you.

I love our traditional calendar, Jaxjacky! It never needs recharging or suddenly can't connect to the Internet when needed. I think modern technology is great when it's working as it should, but personally I still find some of the old ways of doing things more reliable overall.

Not sure where you live oldnproud but we rarely have a connection problem and we use our phone caledars exclusively.

The garage I have my cars MOT done at put a little round reminder sticker in the top right hand corner of the windscreen.

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LOL at the Novelty Documents advert post just gone up - thinking "Now that might have actually come in handy 2 or 3 years ago"....

Re driving licences and mine is a modern-style one (courtesy of having swopped addresses). Though I don't actually drive, in the event, as I tried re-learning from scratch recently and errrrm...it wasnt very successful.

But I shall be keeping that driving licence permanently to use for "proof of identity" type purposes - as I'll never have anything on a smartphone (as I can't get on with smartphones).

Wondering if things like that will morph into "identity cards" per se - as I have mixed feelings about that, but it would appear to be necessary (eg given that London apparently has been found to have about half million people living there illegally) - and that's just one city (albeit our capital city).

I think everything will be on our phone Cariad in time.

I always carry my card size driving licence in my purse so always have it with me .

I will have to renew my licence again next year