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Apple Pay Apple Pay in the UK
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I'm with Isle of Man Bank who are owned by Natwest, nothing further than "Your Issuer does not support this" for me...
I haven't been so desperate to spend money in a long time.
I still think Beta 3 will bring it to Dev's and then 8.4.1 will be released a week later for public, or possibly the same day next week. Wait and see... either way, hurry up...
Has this been confirmed? I am fully aware that changing your region enables the setting but that's due to the way iOS plists are read, applepay = 1 enables it for the US region, if apple can do this without upgrading the iOS version i'd be interested to know how. Unless there is a timer set on a date for when it becomes enabled within the current OS.
Really looking forward to Apple Pay in the UK ... good that we'll be able to use on the Tube ... not sure if I'll want my phone out during rush out though!
There's Apple Watch for that.
https://www.apple.com/uk/watch/apple-pay/
I wonder if it won't come out as a minor update given double pressing the contacts button on my watch doesn't currently do anything, i.e. I wonder if they need to push out an update to the watch at least to support it (and fix some of the annoying bugs but that's for another thread)
The double click on the Watch works already if you switch the Watch region to US
So nobody has had any success stories today? Well that's 2 down, 29 days left. Buckle up, kids!
Can't wait for the 'Card Registered! It's happening!' posts.
Gets me all flustered.
EDIT: We are all genuine nerds.
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My main credit card is a Lloyds' branded American Express; AmEx are a launch partner so will be interesting to see if that works from the get go...
Its already been confirmed that for Amex it will only work for Amex issued cards, unless the issuing bank also supports Apple Pay. http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ne...oming-to-uk-next-month-heres-how-it-will-work
Thanks for that... I read the link the other week but completely missed that part out!
I'll just use my Santander accounts until Lloyds launch support.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/a...y-launch-in-uk-release-date-barclays-3544309/
Macworld are reporting its launch tomorrow (4th July, Saturday). FINGERS CROSSED!
Macworld are reporting its launch tomorrow (4th July, Saturday). FINGERS CROSSED!
The US is mostly on Holiday today, so I'd find that hard to believe, but I could be wrong (would be nice to be wrong) if that is the case, then they are wanting to open it up for the first Saturday of the month, after pay weekend, so it's a good attempt to get it used highly on the first day.
If they wanted to release it soon after pay day then they would do it today, bit silly doing it on a Saturday when the banks are closed, or open shorter hours so there is less help for customers trying to set it up if they have problems.
I personally can't see it being a Saturday, solely because the U.S. is on Holiday. Probably 6th or 7th if it's going to be next week at all.
Mid July when spend volumes are generally less and before the school summer holidays would make more sense but happy to be proved wrong!
Just spoke to someone at the RBS about it and they are still saying even the teams there don't even know when it's going live they are waiting for Apple to give the green light.
Launching on Independence Day? Can't see that happening myself but stranger things have happened!
Kind of hope it launches with the third beta release of iOS 9.
From a post by one of the mods on NatWest's Forums and Ideas section of their site (posted yesterday):
Kind of hope it launches with the third beta release of iOS 9.
From a post by one of the mods on NatWest's Forums and Ideas section of their site (posted yesterday):
- The live date will be announced by Apple shortly and from that date you will see the option to add a card to Apple Pay in Passbook. You will be able to start adding your cards as soon as that happens.
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