Updated August 29, 2023: initially announced for 2023, the digitization of the Navigo Pass in the iPhone will finally take place in 2024, according to information fromthe Informed.
Last year, the Île-de-France Mobilités organization launched the possibility ofrecharge your Navigo Passwith his iPhone and planned to one day allow your smartphone to act as a transport ticket. Now we know when this feature will arrive: see you next year.
The regional authority in charge of transport in Île-de-France is slowly, but surely, moving towards digital technology. It all started with therecharging your Navigo card from your iPhone, a feature that showed up in February 2021. If it was already very practical, many were impatiently awaiting the next step, namely the possibility of using your iPhone as a Navigo Pass. As promised, this will be possible from next year.
After much negotiation, that's it: your iPhone (or your Apple Watch) will soon be able to act as a Navigo Pass. No more plastic cards that we lose (too) easily. From next year, your smartphone will be able to serve as your transport ticket. No precise date has been revealed at the moment since everything will depend on Apple and the progress of its developments, declared Laurent Probst, general director of IDFM, to Le Parisien.
Thus, the NFC chip on your smartphone will allow you to validate your transport ticket at the gates without knowing the need to validate the operation with Touch ID or Face ID. A real breakthrough that we are waiting for around the corner. Until then, a test phase will take place this year with compatible devices. Please note that it will indeed be a dematerialized version of the Navigo Pass.
Thus, France is catching up compared to other countries where the iPhone has already been used as a transport ticket for several years, such as Japan, Sweden, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Even better, by 2024, you will be able to buy your transport tickets directly with Apple Pay and integrate them into your Maps app. Île-de-France Mobilités seems well on its way to succeeding in its digital transition.
Note, finally, that theAndroid userscan already use their smartphone as a transport ticket in Île-de-France but under certain very specific conditions. But everything will change from next summer on that side…
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