Some had expressed privacy concerns about handing over smartphones to police or security officials.
Apple now says users do not need to unlock or hand
over their phones for the system to work for airport security.But it remains unclear if or how it might eventually work for other uses of ID, such as drivers stopped by police.
Security checkpoints
Arizona, and Georgia will introduce the system first, with Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah also signed up.
The "first locations" to use the system will be airport security checkpoints run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Apple says.
Americans usually need some form of state ID only to travel by air domestically, unlike other countries, in which a passport is widely used.
Tapping a phone at an identity reader at supported airports will prompt passengers to use their Face ID or fingerprint to authorise sending information to the machine.
"Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID," Apple said.
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