The Navigo ticket can be boarded on a smartphone, but not on the iPhone, for the moment?

This is a long-awaited use of NFC technology, as proventhis news dates from 2011, namely the possibilityto use your smartphone as a transport ticket. And it is nowpossible in Ile-de-France, on the RATP network, since today. Indeed, as part of a trial phase, the metro ticket can bestored on the SIM cardof the smartphone. No more cardboard notes that demagnetize randomly. On the other hand, theiPhone ownersstay for the momenton the sidelinessomething new:

Only Android smartphonesare compatible with this featurebased on NFC technology.Apple would be expected to allow such uses possible. The apple firm remainsvery restrictiveon the possibilities offered by the NFC of its smartphones. But recent rumors have underpinned the hypothesis of an imminent opening on the part of the Californian company in this regard. And then Japanese users can already take the subway in Tokyo with a ticket saved in the iPhone. This is proof that Apple does not exclude this use.

Another limitation at the moment, you have to beOrange subscriber. The historic operator is until now the only one to offer acarte SIM compatiblewith the technology used, signed by the companyWizway.

This one, co-owned by Orange, actually offers an app,Navigation Lab, to download to your smartphone to record transport tickets.

Thus, the mobile allows you to pass through the gates and validate your ticket. Note that operation isguaranteed even smartphone turned off.

This will not concernthan metro tickets at first. But fromNovember 1stnext, theNavigo maps can also be scannedin this way.

And it is only fromJuly 2019that the subscribersto other operatorswill be able to do without cardboard tickets.

We hope to see the iPhone join Android very quickly on this new feature offered by the RATP for the digital transport ticket. Perhaps a partnership might already be under consideration. Moreover, iOS 11 has already enabled the opening of NFC to third-party apps, wheniOS 12, futurethis fall, enriches the possibilities supported by wireless communication technology,as seen there.

Still, for the moment, no announcement from the Cupertino company or the RATP has been made regarding future compatibility of the iPhone with this digital ticket.

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Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.