According to a press release from Île-de-France Mobilités, the integration of the Navigo Pass on iPhone will finally become a reality after years of postponement. According to the transport authority, users will finally be able to validate their Navigo Pass from their iPhone in spring 2024.
The integration of the Navigo Pass has become a sort of Arlesian, in other words these projects announced for years and which are slow to become a reality. But if we are to believe the latest press release from Île-de-France Mobilités, we are finally in the final stretch.
In a recent publication, the transport authority takes stock of new features coming in 2024 between new equipment, openings and extensions of certain lines, connected ticketing, good deals and accessibility. We will notably note in the IDFM announcements the automation of line 4, the busiest metro line in Ile-de-France, from January 2024, but also the extension of the RER E to Nanterre-La Folie in April 2024.
But for our part, we will mainly focus on the details provided by the Ile-de-France transport authority on the integration of the Navigo Pass on iPhone. In a very short paragraph of just two lines, Ile-de-France Mobilités confirms that it will be possible to validate your Navigo Pass at the resort with your iPhone and Apple Watch from spring 2024. Unfortunately, we do not have a more precise date, in other words, we can hope that this long-awaited feature will make its debut between March and June 2024, just to be fully operational before the start of the Paris Olympics on July 26.
As said above, the integration of the Navigo Pass on iPhone is not new. This innovation has been promised to Ile-de-France residents since 2019. However, the project came up against Apple's refusal to use NFC technologies on its iPhones to connect to RATP terminals, in particular for fear of overshadowing its own solution implemented in Apple Pay.
As revealed by our colleagues from the l'Informed site in August 2023, the apple brand and IDFM finally found common ground in February 2022, materialized by an agreement lasting five years. “This purely administrative episode did not call into question the commissioning deadline. We are very confident of an effective launch in early 2024,” declared an IDFM spokesperson in the columns of the media.