The dematerialization of the Navigo pass on iPhone has been expected for years. Île-de-France Mobilités now announces a launch on July 1, 2024, just before the Olympics.
What will Navigo Pass look like on iPhone? Ile-de-France residents should finally discover it on July 1, 2024. This is the date that was finally announced on January 16, during the Île-de-France Mobilités greeting ceremony for the year 2024. More trains , the RER and Transilien users’ association, relayed the announcements from Valérie Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France regional council, on.
The Navigo pass on iPhone just before the Olympics
The arrival of the Navigo pass on iPhones will therefore be later than expected. A few days before, in a press release dated January 5, Île-de-France Mobilités had mentioned the “ spring 2024 » so that transport users can finally use their iPhone or Apple Watch to validate their transport ticket at the station. Ultimately, the deadline will be just before the start of the Olympics, which are organized in Paris from July 26 to August 11.
The Île-de-France region has been working on the dematerialization of transport tickets for years. Since October 2022, it has been possible to use your Android smartphone to validate your Navigo pass. The same functionality on iPhone is much desired. In August 2023, we learned that the delay in the Navigo pass on iPhone was linked to a translation problem.
The constantly extended deadlines to hope to one day see the iPhone become a support for the Navigo pass end up in any case exasperating Internet users. “ We waited 2 years with false promises “, ” Really the Navigo pass on the iPhone is a running gag », We can read on social networks this January 17, in reaction to the announcements of January 16.
Other changes coming to the Paris metro
In addition to the announcement regarding the Navigo pass, the greeting ceremony was also an opportunity to make other announcements. One of them concerns the Liberté + pass, which allows users to pay individually for their journeys in Paris, with a debit per month. Currently, this package does not allow travel outside Paris, with the exception of buses. It should be extended to the RER and Transilien from January 1, 2025. That is to say well after the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, during which public transport prices will change.
It is also planned to increase the Parisian transport offer to 100% by March 2024. This is a question of the punctuality of the metros and RER, which remains disastrous a few months before the Olympics.
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