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Step 5 - Activate or order MitID

Step 1 - Check your phone and passport
Step 2 - Download and open the MitID app
Step 3 - Scan passport code, read chip and scan face
Step 4 - Create user ID 
Step 5 - Activate or order MitID

Now choose how you want to approve with MitID. You can choose:

  • On this phone if you want to activate the MitID app on the phone that you just used to scan your passport with.
  • App on another phone/tablet if you want to activate a MitID app on another phone/tablet than the one you just used to scan your passport.
  • Code display, audio code reader, or chip if you want to order/activate a MitID code display, a MitID audio code reader or a MitID chip.

  1. Choose On this phone on the screen 'How do you want to approve with MitID?'.
  2. Enter the temporary PIN code that you receive in an SMS.
  3. Come up with a personal PIN code that you can remember. You will need the PIN code every time you open and use the MitID app.
  4. Optionally, choose to use fingerprint or face recognition to open the app.
  5. Accept notifications to receive important messages about MitID.

Tip: Copy the PIN into the app. With some phones, you just need to tap the grey box to have the code from the SMS automatically entered - or you can see it on a banner that appears at the top for a few seconds. Finally, there are phones where you must go to your messaging app to see the SMS and back again in the MitID app to enter the code. 

  1. Download the MitID app on the other phone/tablet where you want the app installed.
  2. Take the phone you used to scan your passport again.
  3. Choose App on another phone/tablet on the screen 'How do you want to approve with MitID?'. Press Next.
  4. Press Show QR code on the screen 'Activate new app with QR code'.
  5. You will now see a QR code that you need to scan to copy the MitID app to the other phone/tablet. The QR code is valid for three minutes.
  6. Open the MitID app on the other phone/tablet where you want the app installed.
  7. Press Get started on the screen 'Activate your MitID'.
  8. Choose Copy from another MitID app. Press Next.
  9. Highlight the field The QR code is displayed on the old app and press Scan QR code.
  10. Scan the QR code by holding the phone/tablet in front of your old app with the phone's screen facing yourself so that the MitID app uses your phone's camera to scan the QR code.
  11. Enter your user ID to confirm your identity. Then press Next.
  12. Enter a temporary PIN code you receive via SMS.
  13. Press Next on the screen 'Choose your personal PIN code'.
  14. Create your personal PIN code. Press Next.
  15. Repeat your personal PIN code. Press Next.
  16. Choose whether you want to approve with biometrics (fingerprint or face recognition).
  17. Choose whether you want to accept notifications from the MitID app.
  18. This app is now activated and ready to use. Press OK.

The MitID app you have on the phone you used to scan your passport is still active. If you no longer want to use it, you can delete it or keep it as a backup for your new MitID app, so you always have access to MitID.

  1. Choose Code display, audio code reader, or chip on the screen 'How do you want to approve with MitID?'. Press Next.
  2. Scroll down and press, for example, Choose code display on the screen 'What do you want to activate/order?'.
  3. On the next screen, you are now asked if you already have a code display. Press No, order code display
  4. You will now see a screen with your user ID and an activation code. Note down the activation code and press Continue on MitID.dk.
  5. Follow the steps on MitID.dk to order your MitID code display.
  6. Activate your MitID code display when you receive it in the post. The letter provided will tell you how to do this.

Note! Have a spare MitID

It is important to have a spare MitID to use as a backup. This way you can still use MitID if you lose your phone or tablet with the app on it – or you just forget to activate the app on a new phone before deleting the old one.

You can get a spare MitID by activating the app on another device or by ordering and activating a MitID code display.

Have a spare MitID