Good news for annual subscribers in the Île-de-France area: the annual Navigo Pass is finally stepping onto smartphones. Starting this Thursday, May 28, 2026, Île-de-France Mobilités is launching a test phase through its participatory program Le Lab, initially limited to Android users. iPhone owners will need to wait a few more days, as IDFM has confirmed that Apple compatibility is coming “in the next days.”
To join the experiment, you need to be enrolled in the Le Lab program from Île-de-France Mobilités. If you haven’t received the invitation email, you can sign up directly on the Lab’s site. Android participants are asked to provide their Play Store ID and their phone model. Once registered, they gain beta access and a channel to report their feedback.
There’s no need to wait for your current subscription to end to switch to the digital version: the system now transfers your existing physical subscription to your smartphone, a real step forward compared with the monthly pass, which required letting the month expire, not renewing the card, and then re-subscribing from the app.
Since 2024, riders can already use their smartphones as a transport ticket for single fares, weekly and monthly passes, and, from June 2025, for Liberté+ (already trusted by more than 1.3 million users). The annual Navigo pass was the big omission—and for good reason: it locks the user into a 12-month commitment, with monthly charges, required documents, reduced fares for eligible users, and far more intricate security and fraud controls to manage. It’s understandable that IDFM chose to pilot the system with the simpler options before tackling the annual pass.
A rollout slated before the end of spring had been long touted, but was pushed back to late June 2026, mirroring the Liberté+ precedent: beta-tested in April 2025 and available to everyone in June of the same year.
For now, the test is limited to Android smartphone owners with a valid annual Navigo pass. iPhone users will have to wait for the iOS beta. The Imagin'R pass (reserved for students) is not affected by this testing phase and remains, for now, on a physical card only.
One question remains: once the annual subscription is transferred to the phone, will the physical card be deactivated? IDFM has not yet publicly weighed in on this, but it is likely to be the case, as is already true for the other digital formats.
For daily transit users, not having to monitor their card’s status or renew it manually is a welcome simplification. The remaining question is whether the rollout will stay on schedule.
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