Since yesterday, you can add a Navigo map to the Apple Maps application and use your iPhone or Apple Watch to enter public transport in the Paris region. This long-awaited possibility, however, does not apply to a large category of users: those who are year-round subscribers cannot currently benefit from the new feature. This is thankfully temporary, like Valérie Pécresse recalled when introducing a new product, although patience will be required.
In fact, the ability to add your annual subscription to the Maps app is not planned until 2025 or even 2026 depending on subscriptions. Subscribers to the annual Liberté+ plan will be able to add their transport ticket from January 2025 for the following year. On the other hand, those who have a annual Navigo package they won’t be able to until “the end of 2025”, which undoubtedly means that their ability to enter and exit with an iPhone or Apple Watch will not be activated until 2026. This also applies to students with an Imagine subscription R , as well as Solidarité Transport titles.
The president of the region justified this delay facing the press by inducing a desire to reduce queues and therefore prioritize single users. Regular users thus come after passing visitors, which should be many this summer with the Olympic Games. On this topic, Pass Paris 2024 designed specifically for spectators can be added to maps from mid-June.
On the other hand, some transport tickets still cannot be dematerialized and will therefore not be affected, including tickets that can be purchased between two specific stations. Youth weekend packages, weekly and monthly tickets also remain reserved for the Île-de-France Mobilités app for the time being. In detail, even the Maps application does not offer all the possibilities, especially the choice of zones is not possible for Navigo Day, you have to make do with the two zones offered by the region.
Finally, iOS 17.5 is technically necessary. This also means that you need a newer iPhone because it must be compatible with this version of Apple’s mobile system. Specifically, this means the iPhone XR and XS or one of the following models. The watch requires watchOS 10.5, as well as at least Apple Watch Series 6 or SE2.