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New features for the digital driving license

Publié le 07 mai 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The France Identité application offers more services and simplifies the procedures associated with your digital driving license. Service-Public.fr informs you.

With France Identité, you can have your driving license in digital format directly in the application, as for your identity card, since February 2024. The procedure is possible with all types of permit (pink with 3 panes or credit card format) and you must hold a France Identité account.

A new version of the application, drawn up in consultation with the Road Safety Delegation, has just been introduced to simplify the journey for users.

What's new?

  • You no longer need to download your Secure Driving Rights Certificate (SFCR) to create your digital driving license, France Identité can retrieve it directly from the national driver's license file.
  • New information is included: start and end dates of validity of permits, heavy categories, accommodation codes for persons with disabilities and restrictive conditions.
  • Updating the information is simplified: it is now possible directly in the application, you no longer have to import your permit completely.
  • A new display is available with a horizontal design that allows you to give more information about your license.
Reminder of the import procedure

It is always possible to import your license via the certificate of entitlement to drive, in this case the procedure is as follows:

  • download your ADCS from My Points Allowed ;
  • open the document and scan the QR Code: your license is imported.

If you choose to import your license via your physical title, you will have access to new information in the application:

  • in your France Identity application, click on “Import your permit”;
  • Select the "Enter the file number on your permit" option and click "Continue".
  • choose the format of your driving license and the appearance of your file number (with or without space);
  • fill in your file number and then consent to the processing of your data;
  • Enter your PIN.
  • Start the contactless reading (NFC) of your identity card.
  • Once you have read the imported data, click on “Add”: your permit is imported into the France Identity application. With this version of import, you have access to more information than with the first procedure thanks to the new view.
How to present your digital license at a roadside check?

In the case of a roadside check, you must do the following:

  • open your France Identité application and select “Show your driving license”;
  • you are informed of the data that will be transferred and you must give your consent;
  • put your phone on the representative’s phone;
  • Contactless connection (NFC) is established between the 2 phones;
  • the law enforcement official receives the information from your driver’s license.

Reminder

The loading of your different papers in the application France Identity requires:

  • have the new identity card (bank card format);
  • to be of age;
  • have an Android phone (11 minimum) or an iPhone (iOS 16 minimum).

Since 1er april, you can renew free of charge your identity card in order to obtain a national digital identity card (CNIe).

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