Dematerialized vital card: the new application rises many concerns

Released yesterday on Android and iOS, the new application of health insurance, “vital card”, already arouses controversy. Despite her practical side, she has many defects that displease the French.

After the bank card And the identity card is the turn of the vital card to be dematerialized on its smartphone. A whole new application, soberly entitled “Vitale card”, was deployed on Android and iOS this March 11, 2025. The software, which is intended to be useful and easy to use, allows you to record your vital card on your smartphone, thus preventing the risk of forgetting or physical card loss.

Despite its practicality, the new application is already debated. The French did not fail to highlight some faults, which lead some to turn their backs on this brand new software.

“Vitale card”, the application of too much

The “Vital Card” application has not failed to arouse certain depreciative comments on the Internet. The French deplored the multiplication of applications for the digitization of their various cards. With the launch of “France Identity” in 2021, which makes it possible to record identity card and driving license, it becomes convoluted for some to find their way among the different software. We should also mention the various applications like Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay, which scan the bank cards.

“No one said that it was smarter to centralize everything on Franceverity rather than having different apps?”comments a user on the social network X. “It’s useful but you have to stop multiplying the apps, why not centralize everything in one”joins him another. Comments which were heard by Guillaume Rozier, French engineer and adviser to the President of the Republic. “Yes, it’s a track to explore”he wrote on his account X.

Is the software dangerous?

Other Internet users have enabled themselves to highlight the risks involved by downloading “vital card”. “What if you lose your phone? Or do you steal it … What do you do?”worries a surfer on X. “And if we have your phone stolen, we lose everything”notes a second. Legitimate questions that concerns part of the French, anxious to lose their sensitive data.

However, the loss of your phone does not mean the theft of your information registered on “Vitale card”. The application is not surprised very supervised and secure, limiting the risks of identity theft as well as possible. It is good to know that each use of your vital card will be requested a secret code. From next spring, the software will integrate a second activation process, which will involve authentication via “France Identity”.

“L‘Vitale card application has a high level of security, with all the advantages of digital and accessible for all insured people aged 18 and over “promises health insurance, responding directly to the concerns that multiply on the internet. The best is undoubtedly never to lose your phone …