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Apple Pay Coming to the United Kingdom Next Month, Discover Card Support Arriving This Fall
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I'm not as excited as I would have been about six months ago, as most of the shops I go to now accept contactless card payments, which frankly is brilliant. Now I don't feel the need for my iPhone to do it
Having said that, it will be handy to have, as I often misplace my bank card and spend ten minutes searching for it before leaving the house ... Always have my phone though
Also, Halifax, Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and TSB (all Lloyds Banking Group) won't have it until Autumn doesn't bother me enough to switch banks though
Having said that, it will be handy to have, as I often misplace my bank card and spend ten minutes searching for it before leaving the house ... Always have my phone though
Also, Halifax, Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and TSB (all Lloyds Banking Group) won't have it until Autumn
doesn't bother me enough to switch banks though
I'm not as excited as I would have been about six months ago, as most of the shops I go to now accept contactless card payments, which frankly is brilliant. Now I don't feel the need for my iPhone to do it
Having said that, it will be handy to have, as I often misplace my bank card and spend ten minutes searching for it before leaving the house ... Always have my phone though
Well, security is probably one of the main reasons!
I agree, always misplacing my card so this will be handy
Didn't see Barlcays in the keynote so a longer wait for me, although at least it's being launched so should help to speed things along!
250k places in the UK, so as @shortcrust said, so a lot of places up and down the country to do contactless with
Well, security is probably one of the main reasons!
I agree, always misplacing my card so this will be handy
Security? Do you mean the finger print? That's a fair point, also, now I think about it ... Can you spend as much as you want on this or is it still the £20? If so, I may just be 17% more excited?
In the U.S. they have special readers, I suspect it will be the same here, hence the small list of retailers accepting it
Yep. I've just read an Article a little more carefully. If there is no barclays, I presume that means no barclaycard. That for sure is going to mean a change of credit card.
It seems odd that there is no Barclays. I'm currently beta testing the Mobile Banking watch app, which made me think they were keen on new tech, perhaps not!
I'm not sure about the spending limit.
But there is much more to it than Touch ID.
All details are on this page - https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/
Also, I'm pretty sure any contactless reader will work with Apple Pay.
I thought the readers being rolled out in the US were just plain old contactless readers that happened to have an ApplePay logo. A lot of shops here already have contactless. I take your point about their list of retailers though. I suppose it won't hurt to try it somewhere its not officially supported.
The £20 limit is due to be increased to £30 later this year I believe. That's worth 8% excitement.
Fortunately first direct are on board, but if they weren't, and there was no announcement of future involvement, I think I would switch. I will definately dump my Barclaycard, which I have used for about 25 years. I don't suppose a huge amount of customers would switch due to support of Apple pay, but there will definately some.
I wonder if Barclays are working on something of their own?
I wonder if Barclays are working on something of their own?