How much damage (cracks) is acceptable on a national identity card before it won't be accepted?

How much damage (cracks) is acceptable on a national identity card before it won't be accepted? - Happy African American androgynous person with Afro braids and computer looking at black colleague with vitiligo and notebook while working on gray background

My Swiss identity card has a crack on about a third of its height, in the middle. I have no reason to believe the RFID chip is damaged. All information is still legible.

Here's what the crack looks like, on a specimen : sample card with overlaid crack

Should I be concerned that it won't be accepted as legit ID when traveling abroad or when required to produce ID?

I tried to look for documentation of how much / what kind of damage is accepted on ID documents but couldn't find any. I guess this would be decided at the Schengen space level? If anyone has more success than I, I'd be interested.






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