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UIDAI retires mAadhaar in favor of redesigned privacy-focused Aadhaar app

UIDAI is retiring mAadhaar and moving residents to a redesigned Aadhaar app built around selective sharing, QR-based proofing, face authentication, biometric locking, and offline verification.

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Key Facts

  • The new app lets users disclose specific attributes instead of sharing a full Aadhaar profile.
  • Face authentication can be used during setup and to start certain account updates.
  • The app supports offline identity verification, biometric locking, 13 Indian languages, and up to five Aadhaar profiles on one device.

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For the Learning Center corpus, the app transition matters because it moves Aadhaar's user-facing experience closer to selective disclosure and mobile credential patterns while retaining biometric controls.

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