US college students can now add their IDs to Samsung Wallet

Samsung Wallet, like Google Wallet, is a useful app to store all your most important cards, and now that includes student IDs for college students. Samsung today announced officially that Samsung Wallet is adding student IDs to the app in partnership with colleges across the US.

So if you attend one of the compatible schools, you can store your ID inside of the app and use that anywhere you’d need the physical ID. Presumably this should work for anything around campuses where an ID might be needed. Though it’s not hard to imagine some schools having a policy or rule that requires the physical ID card.

There are of course some caveats. You’ll need to have a Galaxy smartphone to use the Samsung Wallet app. The app also has to be updated to the latest version. As this feature is part of an update. The good news is that the update should be live for users who meet that criteria. The only other thing you need is to be at a school where this is available.

Samsung Wallet with student IDs works at 68 colleges

There’s a lot of different educational institutions across the country, but Samsung Wallet’s new feature doesn’t just work at every single one of them. The company says that it’s started with 68 different locations. These are “colleges, universities, and higher education institutions across the nation.”

Samsung says this works at schools like Penn State, the University of Florida, Central Michigan University, University of North Alabama, and the Stevens Institute of Technology. It doesn’t give a full list of schools where the digital IDs are available though. Samsung says that if students want to know if their school supports it, they need to contact the school directly.

As for the compatible Galaxy devices, Samsung lists them on its Wallet FAQ page. As for features, the digital student IDs can be used for a number of things. Unlocking doors at dorm rooms, and in some cases for NFC-based payments. And there’s a built-in Power Reserve feature. With this, students tap their phone to use the ID even if the phone has turned off from low battery.