Users have been asking for this feature to be integrated into the new SNCF application: SNCF Connect for months. The one that replaces OuiSNCF (not without difficulty) has since tried to convince users lost in the face of so many changes.

This Monday, one of the features lost with the redesign of the application has just announced its great return. Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment solution for iPhone, returns to the SNCF application. A good way to buy a train ticket faster.

SNCF adds Apple Pay to its app

This feature, like Wallet, had simply disappeared. Anne Pruvot, the director of SNCF Connect & Tech, came back a few days ago to the complicated launch of the application, with in particular the absence of these two features, which are in great demand.

“We heard a lot about Apple Wallet at launch. But in fact, this function is used by less than 2% of users. » When it came to Apple Pay, things were a little different. Indeed the SNCF has always wanted to implement this solution within its application, but the maneuver seems to have been delayed several times internally.

A discreet update for big changes

It was therefore a few days ago that a minor update made it possible to launch Apple Pay in the SNCF Connect application for thousands of people in France. For the railway company, this announcement is a success. In a press release, the SNCF explains that it is now possible to pay for train tickets using Apple Pay, and how to do it.

The SNCF announces that in direct link “ with its ambition to simplify journey reservations for its customers and to confirm its role as the French leader in e-commerce, payment by Apple Pay has been added to the payment options available on SNCF Connect. »

Before continuing : “gThanks to this new means of payment, users of SNCF Connect who are Apple fans have a simple, fast and secure solution, complementary to payment by bank card or dematerialized Chèque-Vacances, to pay for their orders. »

© SNCF

How to use Apple Pay on your iPhone

As a reminder, if you want to use Apple Pay on your iPhone, you simply have to integrate a bank card into Wallet. The latter must come from a partner bank with the apple brand (the list of banks concerned is here).

Once the bank card is in Wallet, all you have to do is book your train ticket in SNCF Connect and when paying choose “Pay with Pay”. The phone will then ask you to use Face ID or Touch ID to prove your identity and validate the payment.