Had a few goes this week now that Halifax has joined the Apple Pay gang.
Firstly a contactless fail when trying to buy £30 of store vouchers for my Mum's birthday at Lakeland (cooking shop). Might have been their system not updated to the £30 ceiling.
Next today at a Wilkos in Cardiff that has Apple Pay. It wouldn't see my or my wife's watch(which uses HSBC). Epic fail. Was for £27.
Then after that tried £19 contactless at a Burger King, worked fine.
Not liking the lottery of it at the mo, but was great when worked.
Since iOS 9 beta 4 or 5, I've had some watch transactions show up on my iPhone 6, with my HSBC card. Tho the NatWest one doesn't. So it must be bank specific.
That's good to know. No limit?
Marks and Sparks were one of the few places to say there wasn't a limit on contactless pay (With Apple Pay).
Hi guys, I have an iPhone 5S (getting new iPhone once its released here). I have an Apple Watch as of yesterday. I immediately updated the OS to v2. Can I not add a card to wallet without owning a 6 or 6s? I don't see an option on the phone anywhere to add a card.
Any help is much appreciated.
Have you got the latest iOS on your 5s and a passcode set up on your watch?Hi guys, I have an iPhone 5S (getting new iPhone once its released here). I have an Apple Watch as of yesterday. I immediately updated the OS to v2. Can I not add a card to wallet without owning a 6 or 6s? I don't see an option on the phone anywhere to add a card.
Any help is much appreciated.
Just got apple pay set up on my watch today..can't wait to use it
Guessing it works in any contact less place?It's great I use it all the time now and hardly ever use cash now. There has been the odd occasion when it hasn't worked on my watch like today at Costa and I had to use my phone instead but it works well for the most part. It's even better when you get a sales person or a customer waiting in line with a look of surprise or disbelief or someone comments how cool it is.![]()
Guessing it works in any contact less place?
New contactless card arrived! Set up was quick and easy. Now I just need to use itreally wanted to try this feature/ service out since purchasing the watch
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I opted out of contactless cards with Lloyds. I think that Apple Pay is more secure than a card anybody can use just by touching it to the terminal, so just use Apple Pay now for contactless payments
My NatWest card wasn't available for Apple Pay. When I contacted NatWest to see if my account was eligible they told me that I needed a contactless card. I'm getting a wallet that will make it so I have to remove the card from the wallet for it to be read by the reader to avoid accidental payments![]()
I paid for my 6S+ in the Apple store using my watch.Yep, I'm incredibly worried about using my watch for anything over £20 unless it's places that have said they have a higher limit from the start (Think Apple Store is £2000 and Pret and a few others are unlimited) I've spent £24 at Pret for a few people, but I've had a failure at Lidl recently and they said they'd upgraded, so who knows!
I've not had that happen either but I look forward to the day I can leave them all at home.If it makes you feel any better and you want to save a bit of money on a new wallet, I think the maximum distance of the contactless tech (Near field communication) is barely over 10cm. As for when it's in use on a card terminal/vending machine, etc: my experience with it on my watch and card is that unless it's pretty much touching the terminal it won't read it![]()
Have a look on the map at http://www.mastercard.co.uk/contactless.htmlI've not had that happen either but I look forward to the day I can leave them all at home.
Perfect example today, going on a Scott Kelby photowalk later based around a country pub. I'd prefer to go really light (keys, spare battery & card in pocket) but you have no idea if their machine is Contactless until you get there!
If it makes you feel any better and you want to save a bit of money on a new wallet, I think the maximum distance of the contactless tech (Near field communication) is barely over 10cm. As for when it's in use on a card terminal/vending machine, etc: my experience with it on my watch and card is that unless it's pretty much touching the terminal it won't read it![]()