iPhone guides for Canadian ID: scan, lock and watermark passport and licence copies

Canadian forms want files in a particular shape: an IRCC upload field has its own limits, and a landlord should get a copy that cannot be reused. These guides use the iPhone’s own apps to make those files and keep them private.

To make the file, scan your passport or driver’s licence with the built-in scanner, prepared the way IRCC upload fields expect it. To keep it, compare the Hidden album, locked notes and app lock by who can open each one. To send it, watermark the copy so it names the landlord, employer or agent it is for.

As for the documents themselves, Apple Wallet does not take Canadian passports or provincial licences, so see what provinces offer instead, and what a PDF of your driver’s licence can and can’t be, including when Ontario’s driver record is the document you actually need.