DiDi SMS verification: app, market and phone access

Keep the market and application visible

Identify Rider, Driver or Food and open its help for the market concerned. The official examples linked here are Australia Rider and Driver, and Costa Rica Food courier help. Their instructions are useful evidence for those roles, not a promise that every DiDi country uses the same input, code channel or account requirements.

• Choose a number country for the actual verification step

Australia Rider help describes an SMS sign-up step

The Australia Rider help documents mobile-number registration with an SMS verification and additional account details. Read the screen for your own market before requesting a text. The code is one step: receiving it does not supply the rest of the account information, authorise a trip or guarantee acceptance of a temporary allocation.

Changing a phone and recovering an account are different

Australia’s Rider help describes a text to the selected phone after a number change, while password recovery sends its code to the registered phone. Keep those destinations separate. Buying another number cannot receive a challenge addressed to the old account contact. Use the app’s authorised change or recovery process while retaining the required access.

• Prepare recovery before temporary reception ends

Transport contact extends beyond a registration text

Consider contact during the ride as well as the first OTP. A short incoming-message allocation does not provide lasting calls, international roaming or every in-app communication function. Use your own reachable contact arrangements for actual transport, and read the local DiDi app’s options rather than treating a verification inbox as a complete travel phone.

• Compare a single reception with continued access

Driver and Food courier requirements remain separate

DiDi’s Australia Driver help has its own account and document process. The Costa Rica Food courier article describes a separate phone-change flow with a text code. Neither source makes the Rider registration a driver approval or a courier signup. Follow the official requirements for your role; one SMS does not replace another onboarding step.

• Distinguish SMS reception from other platform checks

Match the offer to the requested DiDi destination

For a suitable authorised SMS task, compare the exact service coverage, number country, channel and receiving period. Read whether the form supplies the country code and preserve the full allocation. Follow local resend guidance if delivery is absent. A global directory entry does not establish live stock or compatibility with every DiDi role and market.

• Check the country code and allocated digits