[cardanome]

I have used the e-signing function of my German ID card exactly zero times.

Even government websites don't support it for the stuff I would like to use it. So it isn't exactly a success story.

[lxgr]

True, it does seem to be suffering from a chicken-and-egg type of problem: Not enough services accept it, so not enough people actually remember the PIN and care to install the app necessary to use it.

But now that both iOS and Android phones can be used as "card readers", I hope we should finally be seeing some more adoption. Before that, almost nobody had a card reader handy when they needed one.

The EU's eIDAS digital ID/signature portability scheme should also help boost it.

[usrusr]

I went through four different use cases in the last two months or so, about 1.5 of them not the state. I'd say the chicken/egg phase is over. But it won't be an everyday tool anytime soon, but the same is true for the physical ID, its not like you need to show it around all too often.

[hnaccount_rng]

I’ve used it for your Rentenübersicht (which is actually amazing) and Elster. But yeah, it’s not really deployed