{"id":1022238,"date":"2026-07-20T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022238"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:12:37","slug":"aadhaar-app-hits-4-crore-downloads-as-millions-lock-biometrics-swap-addresses-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/aadhaar-app-hits-4-crore-downloads-as-millions-lock-biometrics-swap-addresses-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar app hits 4 crore downloads as millions lock biometrics, swap addresses from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aadhaar app crossed the 4 crore downloads mark this week as a growing number of Indians embrace digital convenience. More than 11.65 lakh address changes have been recorded since it was launched, while the biometric lock has been used over 19 million times. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the app is increasingly used as a single platform where residents can update personal details, manage privacy controls and access e-Aadhaar without visiting physical centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aadhaar app crossed the 4 crore downloads mark this week as a growing number of Indians embrace digital convenience. More than 11.65 lakh address changes have been recorded since it was launched, while the biometric lock has been used over 19 million times. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the app is increasingly used as a single platform where residents can update personal details, manage privacy controls and access e-Aadhaar without visiting physical centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022259,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022238\/revisions\/1022259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}