If you want to carry out official procedures online in Spain, yes or yes, you will need a digital certificate . This small file allows you to declare taxes, manage your vehicles, modify your municipal register and ultimately streamline procedures so that you never find yourself queuing at a tax office again. We are going to see everything you need to know to sign with the digital certificate on an iPhone .
Sign with the iPhone digital certificate: download, register and use
First of all, let’s define: the digital certificate is an encrypted file that the government gives you and that contains everything you need to officially and legally identify yourself before the official websites of government procedures. To request the digital certificate you must go to this website and follow the steps indicated: you will need to have a valid DNI or NIE. You may also need to go to a tax office to get some keys.
Keep in mind that the digital certificate has an expiration date , so from time to time you will have to renew it . It may sound strange as it is an entirely digital file, but it is the government’s way of periodically verifying that our identity is what it is.
The digital certificate is received as a file that you can open on iPhone via AirDrop or iCloud Drive
Once you have finished the certificate request process, it will arrive in the form of a .p12 or .pfx file. You can transfer it to iPhone using AirDrop or save it to an iCloud Drive folder . It is very likely that you will be asked for a password that has been attached to the email you received with the certificate.
If you click on the certificate file from the iPhone, it will ask you for confirmation to install it on the iPhone. We confirm that step, and then in Settings we look for the ‘downloaded profile’ option that will appear just under our name:
If we touch on that option we will have the option to install it in the upper right button, and you will have to enter the certificate password again. It is possible that the iPhone gives us a warning similar to ” the profile is not signed “, in that case we touch the Install button again and we will finish the process.
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With the certificate already installed, we can access government websites such as the Treasury website and identify ourselves using the profile created by the iPhone:
All we have to do is click on ‘Continue’ and we will access our private user area without having to enter any password. And that’s it: maybe you won’t do the income tax return on the iPhone out of inconvenience, but this can be a good reference tool wherever you are .
