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Apple pay and boarding pass issue

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bigjim83

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Dec 14, 2011
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So today while going through a security checkpoint at the airport I was using passbook to show my boarding pass. When I got to the security scanner I placed my phone on the scanned and apple pay kept popping up with fingerprint verification. I guess there is NFC in the scanner so I had issues scanning.

Is there any way to avoid this?? Was really frustrating. I had to open my JetBlue app instead and use that boarding pass.
 
Interesting. I haven't used my 6 at an airport yet, but I can see that this could be an issue in other places as well. E.g. if Starbucks decided to introduce NFC POS terminals, it could interfere with using the Passbook pass and optical scanner to pay. There should be an option to disable NFC.
 
I typically don't put my boarding passes in Passbook... I keep them in the airlines' apps. Don't know why... Just always do it that way.
 
Yes, passports have NFC now, so the scanner was also trying to activate and read a passport rfid tag.

Which iPhone saw...
 
Yeah I'll have to stick with the airline app then. It was pretty annoying and I looked pretty dumb when Touch ID payment verification kept popping up
 
bigjim83 said:
Yeah I'll have to stick with the airline app then. It was pretty annoying and I looked pretty dumb when Touch ID payment verification kept popping up
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Does the Apple Pay screen not also pop up while you're in an app when the phone detects an NFC field nearby?
 
Dang, I did not try the Jet Blue app. Instead had to use a kiosk to print a boarding pass.

Will give it a shot on the return flight. I would assume the Apple Pay screen would launch when near the NFC reader even inside an app?
 
I wonder if turning on airplane mode will turn off nfc as well.
 
Well I took my card off apple pay so hopefully that will keep it quiet until something is figured out
 
Jsingh said:
Dang, I did not try the Jet Blue app. Instead had to use a kiosk to print a boarding pass.

Will give it a shot on the return flight. I would assume the Apple Pay screen would launch when near the NFC reader even inside an app?
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Ok, tried the Jet Blue app and it worked fine! But, unfortunately, this reader did not look the same as the last one...it was just a glass strip so I don't think my findings are definitive.
 
I put my boarding passes in Passbook this past weekend and it worked without a hitch. TSA was able to scan my phone as well prior to boarding with no problem. The issues I had was with my bag check-in. The bar code didn't show up in the web browser.....
 
Apple Pay was triggered at my office which has door access readers -- so they obviously have NFC embedded and active. It was interesting more than it was annoying, in this case anyway!
 
It is said that Apple wants to eventually use Passbook for building security and transit passes.

I had assumed that would be good in an "added functionality" way, but this post is making me realize they need to hurry up on that just so that the current functionality can work correctly!
 
Used my iPhone 6 for mobile boarding pass this past weekend. I didn't have any trouble. My boarding pass was just a web page that Southwest Airlines texted me a link to access.
 
what was it going to charge you? I thought NFC readers in CC terminals got a message from the cash register so I knows what to charge you

in this example what would the boarding pass scanner try and charge the card?
 
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