Category: apple pay

Apple’s tap-and-go Express payments come to London public transport

[ad_1] Apple’s Express Mode can now be used on all Transport for London (TfL) services, including buses, trams and the underground system. Users only need to tap their phone or Apple Watch against the yellow card reader to pay for their journey. Apple Pay typically uses biometric data like Touch ID or Face ID to […]

Tech companies won’t become banks, but they’ll pretend to

[ad_1] You can’t escape stories of tech companies dipping their toes into banking. This year, Google revealed it’s working on a check-clearing platform for 2020, and Facebook relaunched its own payments platform. Apple launched a credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs’ Marcus digital bank, too. As hardware sales and ad revenues dry up, these […]

Tim Cook: Apple Pay transactions doubled year-over-year

[ad_1] Apple CFO Luca Maestri has also announced that the US Census Bureau is using iOS devices for next year’s census. The agency had already developed (PDF) apps, including an address listing and mapping application and an interviewer-administered survey application, that can run on iOS, Android and even Windows. Maestri said that the shift to […]

Apple Pay is more popular than Starbucks for US mobile payments

[ad_1] The eMarketer team credited the change of leadership to the growing ubiquity of NFC payment terminals, particularly in common shopping destinations like grocery stores — you’re more likely to use Apple Pay if your local shop supports it. As omnipresent as Starbucks is in American culture, it’s only one retailer. As for Apple’s reported […]

Apple’s credit card could arrive in the first half of August

[ad_1] Getting a product like this off the ground is no easy feat, especially given that Apple’s decision to partner with Goldman Sachs meant two very different corporate cultures (Silicon Valley vs Wall Street) had to work together. Bloomberg reports that the two companies split up many of the responsibilities but worked together on the […]

Finally, I can use my iPhone to ride the NYC subway

[ad_1] Before I get into that, though, let’s first talk about the setup process for Express Transit, as the Apple Pay feature is called. When you go to “Wallet & Apple Pay” settings on your iPhone, you’ll now see an option called Express Transit Card. After you tap on that, you need to select a […]

Apple Pay can be used for iTunes, App Store and Apple Book purchases

[ad_1] You can now use Apple Pay to make purchases from iTunes, the App Store and Apple Books. You can also use it for Apple Music and iCloud storage subscriptions. MacRumors spotted the change in a recently updated support document. The added Apple Pay options are coming to users in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, […]

iOS 12.3 code hints at support for more forms of mass transit

[ad_1] It’s not certain just when iOS 12.3 will arrive, although there have already been four betas as of this writing. A finished release may be a few weeks away, if not sooner. Whenever it shows up, it would be part of a larger plan. Reported leaks claim that iOS 13 will support a much […]

UK government starts accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay

[ad_1] Officials expect to spread payments among other, more “central” government services as well as local government, health care and the police. It’s not a radical addition, but could make life easier if the thought of paying for government services normally turns you pale. And let’s face it, this technological convenience is still relatively rare […]