Used Apple Watch this morning to go through two ticket barriers. No discernible difference to Oyster card. Bit of a bugger swiping my left wrist over the designed-for-righties Oyster card reader though
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Apple Pay Officially Launches in the United Kingdom Today
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I can't believe it's not possible to set up Aliases for cards. I've about seven RBS cards alone and would never remember which is which from the digits. Just how technically difficult would this have been to make it usable? Now I won't be using it.
At least you can add your RBS cards, none of mine work, think yourself lucky.
Timed both the iPhone and Watch and the time-out once the payment has been verified is around 1 minute.
Used my watch at Pret and on the Tube. It seemed pretty instantaneous at Pret but the Oyster reader was noticeably slower to register. It does that with Oyster cards sometimes though so I will have to see how it goes over time. It's ridiculously convenient though.
What's a shame is that they don't somehow combine your Apple Pay device ID and your Oyster account so that you can use it as an Oyster Card substitute. I have a Zone 2-6 monthly travelcard so I can only use my watch if I'm going into Zone 1, like today.
What's a shame is that they don't somehow combine your Apple Pay device ID and your Oyster account so that you can use it as an Oyster Card substitute. I have a Zone 2-6 monthly travelcard so I can only use my watch if I'm going into Zone 1, like today.
As I understand it, as far as bank is concerned it's no different to directly using your card in any appreciable way.
Yeah, pretty happy, this is simple to use and was so simple to set up. Paid for lunch at my office canteen today and got some shopping at Morrisons. The watch is such a convenient way to pay.
I probably won't be using my Barclaycard at all until they get up and running and I was thinking of switching until they got a statement out about it.. running off current account for the Apple pay stuff but the extra security gives me peace of mind.
I probably won't be using my Barclaycard at all until they get up and running and I was thinking of switching until they got a statement out about it.. running off current account for the Apple pay stuff but the extra security gives me peace of mind.
Thank you very much for the link. It must've shown up after I checked the site.
That's good news, but raises the interesting question of how TfL knows that a tokenized Apple Pay purchase matches your registered real card account number.
The banks would have to somehow feed back all related fare purchases to TfL (safest). Or give them the DAN token to match up themselves.
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I have 3 debit cards, 3 Banks......None of them supporting it yet, not a happy chappy
Well, new customers at any of the banks always get the best deals
From Visa.co.uk -
Are contactless payments using Apple Pay, subject to the £20 contactless threshold?
No – Mobile payment services such as Apple Pay can be used for payments over the £20 contactless threshold, with a growing number of UK retailers supporting what we term ‘high value’ mobile contactless payment – which involve you verifying yourself using Touch ID (for Apple Pay) or another verification method, such as a passcode entered on your device. These cardholder verification methods add an additional layer of security for peace of mind, and act in much the same way as when you use ‘Chip and PIN’ to secure payments made in store with your Visa card. High value mobile payments are also widely supported in a growing number of retailers accepting contactless payment across Europe.
Also in case the original post wasn't clear - Apple Pay can be used anywhere regular contactless cards are accepted - the terminal doesn't know if you're using a card, android nfc phone or Apple pay.
Some people never happy.
Send Apple feedback via their website I'm sure it must be possible to implement.
Purchases made today in WH Smith, Greggs, M&S and Costa, all worked flawlessly on my 6+ using iOS 9 beta.
Lots of outlets don't have any transaction limit already...
Update if you know more.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/uk-apple-pay-retailers-with-no-transaction-limits.1900601/
You don't just see a number, you see the entire card with whatever graphics are on that card. It's no different to looking in your wallet. However you organise your wallet, add the cards to Apple Pay in that order so that it looks just like your real wallet.
Another reply to my own. Worked a treat at Boots Pharmacy. Even got a "wow cool" response from the sales rep.
Apparently they have no limits already...
http://m.essentialretail.com/news/a...e-accepting-high-value-apple-pay-transactions
Not according to what we have been told. If the transaction is over £20, the terminal will not offer contactless as an option until the update in August (as was the case before Apple Pay launch).
Used it first in the restaurant at work - it worked perfectly. The server was extremely bemused at my suggestion to pay with my phone at first and she closely examined the receipt when it printed.
When I tried at Waitrose my phone said it had worked and showed the amount paid but the payment terminal and recognise it and continued to prompt for payment. I reauthorised and it worked.
Morrisons was a disaster. TouchID recognition failed - probably due to sweaty fingers - and then when it finally did work the system went into processing mode and eventually the transaction declined. Again the phone said it was a success. Not sure what caused this seeing as it should work everywhere but Morrisons saying on Twitter that they will support from tomorrow. The slightly rude self checkout assistant tried to tell me that it was Apple Watch only.
It worked perfectly at Boots, M&S and Tesco.
Next time I'll go to the main checkout rather than self checkout to experience more bemusement from the checkout staff.
I did notice a non-detrimental delay compared to contactless card due to online authorisation.
When I tried at Waitrose my phone said it had worked and showed the amount paid but the payment terminal and recognise it and continued to prompt for payment. I reauthorised and it worked.
Morrisons was a disaster. TouchID recognition failed - probably due to sweaty fingers - and then when it finally did work the system went into processing mode and eventually the transaction declined. Again the phone said it was a success. Not sure what caused this seeing as it should work everywhere but Morrisons saying on Twitter that they will support from tomorrow. The slightly rude self checkout assistant tried to tell me that it was Apple Watch only.
It worked perfectly at Boots, M&S and Tesco.
Next time I'll go to the main checkout rather than self checkout to experience more bemusement from the checkout staff.
I did notice a non-detrimental delay compared to contactless card due to online authorisation.