Apple Pay Officially Launches in the United Kingdom Today

[Pagemakers]

Just spoken with Natwest and they confirmed that Apple Pay is only for personal accounts, not business.

 

[cjbryce]

Does it matter whether a retailer takes Amex or not?

If Apple Pay are processing the transaction and the retailer gets the payment info from them then do they even know what card is behind the transaction?

This is exactly my question too.

 

[Bobajobbob]

HSBC only bust a gut for swiss bank account holders and money laundering mexicans. You apple pay plebians can wait.

 

[Pagemakers]

Does it matter whether a retailer takes Amex or not?

If Apple Pay are processing the transaction and the retailer gets the payment info from them then do they even know what card is behind the transaction?

To pay by AMEX the retailer needs to accept AMEX.

 

[dbrose]

What a joke. HSBC launch day partner. They even tweet about apple pay launch. Now it says. Coming soon.

Really annoyed with HSBC and Apple.

Why Apple? This will be the banks fault. Apple want everyone using it.

 

[Mike MA]

Next ____ [insert country here] please

 

[Yixian]

Currently not working with my FirstDirect card.

 

[MrMoonUK]

Spoke to RBS and Natwest confirmed they won't allow it for basic bank accounts!


It's a joke in the U.S. They offer it on the government welfare cards ffs

 

[Zxxv]

You misunderstand. The current NFC limit is £20. In September the limit will be £30.

With Apple Pay it will be unlimited (due to the higher security since its not just contactless with no authentication, but the terminal in the store needs an update to be able to do this. Until the update is done, those terminals will only accept up to the base limit (£20 no, £30 in September) for any NFC transaction.

No I didn't. I made a joke

 

[XzavierMonroe]

they Need to Make it Happen in Australia,I got the iPhone 6Plus & thats the only feature i can use Not Happy Apple

 

[NeilHD]

Just registered my Natwest non-contactless Credit card with no problems.

Won't bother doing the contactless cards yet because there's no benefit to just using the actual card that I can see. When I was explaining it to my wife last night she said "But I keep my contactless bank card in the back of my case, so I can already just touch my phone to pay". I couldn't really find an argument against that.

 

[Manatlt]

What a joke. HSBC launch day partner. They even tweet about apple pay launch. Now it says. Coming soon.

Really annoyed with HSBC and Apple.

Yeah but that tweet was deleted 20 minutes later. Usually that means they have something to hide (which most of us assumed it was a good thing) but they actually deleted that tweet for something that no one thought of thinking:
They weren't really launching today.

 

[Zxxv]

Not all Natwest visa debit cards work either. It could be that only debit cards with contactless embedded already have had Apple Pay included.

Not true. If your debit card is already in iTunes as a payment method it'll add it automatically to passbook when you open and log into passbook.

 

[Zxxv]

This has less use in the U.K. as most places have contactless card payments under £20 anyway (which is really useful). But this is cool I guess.

useful to those who don't carry cards or have their phone out rather than their card. Plus it's secure over the card NFC payment as it comes with security.

 

[Zxxv]

Next step terminals will have the finger print reader. The NFC chip will be under your skin. No need to carry anything.

 

[afd]

Managed to get 3 cards on my phone but nothing showing on watch. Can I force a sync, or does it only happen when watch feels syncy? Tried having it on charger but that didn't work. Watch is set to mirror phone.

 

[wsc9005]

Just used Apple Pay in M&S. Seamed a bit slow.

Question on passbook do you get a list of all the transactions you have used apple pay for or just the last one?

Just bought a coffee from Starbucks using Apple Pay. It was just like using a contactless card

 

[Strickers]

Managed to get 3 cards on my phone but nothing showing on watch. Can I force a sync, or does it only happen when watch feels syncy? Tried having it on charger but that didn't work. Watch is set to mirror phone.

You have to add cards through the watch app.

 

[dbrose]

Spoke to RBS and Natwest confirmed they won't allow it for basic bank accounts!


It's a joke in the U.S. They offer it on the government welfare cards ffs

You're not in the US. This is the banks choice.

 

[GoldenOak]

HSBC now sent me an email:

Mr XXXX, Apple Pay is coming soon! A new way to pay with HSBC.
Coming later in July. A new way to
pay with an HSBC debit or credit card using Apple Pay.​

And it ends by

Thank you for your continued loyalty to HSBC.​

Funny. They make it sounds as if they are worried of people leaving.

 

[mattlynch90]

Morning coffee with apple pay

 

[afd]

You have to add cards through the watch app.

Ah, thanks

 

[iGeek2014]

My girlfriend and I share a NatWest current account with our own separate cards, both Visa debit cards. Hers is purple and contactless and mine is blue and non-contactless. Only hers can be added to Apple Pay. NatWest are denying that only contactless cards work but in my case that seems true. It's certainly not account based, it's the same account.

You've got the online only card whilst your girlfriends' is offline. In your case it has to check the available account funds when completing a transaction whereas your girlfriend's card doesn't.

 

[wsc9005]

Really hoping we get some sort of word from Barclays today. They're the only significant U.K. bank which isn't supporting Apple Pay. Didn't MacRumors run a story about a possible launch from them later this week?

Update from Barclays http://twitter.com/BarclaysUK/status/620861754424299520

 

[andybno1]

well this is annoying I cant add my natwest blue joint account card :-(