Apple Cash in iOS 27 Will Help You Split Bills With Just a Photo

[MacRumors]

iOS 27 will include a nice quality-of-life improvement for those who frequently split bills with friends and family, allowing them to easily take a photo of a receipt and generate payment requests for different people, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

The feature will be tied to the peer-to-peer Apple Cash feature in the Wallet app, which lets users easily send money to other people and even make purchases.

Article Link: Apple Cash in iOS 27 Will Help You Split Bills With Just a Photo

 

[BeatsByTim]

Why would this need to be tied to apple cash?

 

[jb310]

It would be more helpful if it could interface with other services like Venmo, but I can see why they want to lock people into Apple Cash 😅

 

[HMFIC03]

Why would this need to be tied to apple cash?

I suppose because it’s still going to be one person who pays the bill to the business, so this is friends and family paying that one person.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Why would I take a picture of the bill like it's the year 2019? I thought new Siri was supposed to figure these things out for me just by asking?

 

[mattopotamus]

I guess this is cool, but is it really hard to split bills in this day and age? One person pay and divide by the number of people or pay for your share 🤯

 

[gomichaelgo]

I guess this is cool, but is it really hard to split bills in this day and age? One person pay and divide by the number of people or pay for your share 🤯

Yeah, but if this feature could split the bill by items and include the tax and tip portion, that would be awesome. Not everyone drinks (which adds a lot to a tab)

 

[polyphenol]

iOS 27 will include a nice quality-of-life improvement for those who frequently split bills with friends and family, allowing them to easily take a photo of a receipt and generate payment requests for different people, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

The feature will be tied to the peer-to-peer Apple Cash feature in the Wallet app, which lets users easily send money to other people and even make purchases.

Article Link: Apple Cash in iOS 27 Will Help You Split Bills With Just a Photo

They really are focussing on the vitally important issues, I see...

Honestly, even when bill sharing was a part of my life, I'd not have needed advanced computer tech to help.

 

[carswell]

Or you could just pull up your phone's calculator -- or use a pen and a napkin -- to divide it yourself and then tell the other people around the table how much they owe.

There are reports that kids are no longer able to tell time using a non-digital clock. This is the AI analogue of that. One of the many downsides of AI is that it's going to make people in many ways dumber and less capable of fending for themselves in the world.

 

[Rychiar]

how's it gonna know what they ate?!

 

[Spinarelo]

Why would I take a picture of the bill like it's the year 2019? I thought new Siri was supposed to figure these things out for me just by asking?

Because you can itemize the bill and assign certain items to certain people. This isn’t a plain vanilla split the bill total by x ways tool. It scans the bill’s items and you assign who had what then calculates their total