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Apple Pay Today UK!
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I have been wowing the locals on holiday in Cornwall using my watch! Most of them don't even know their machine is contactless
A day with no debit cards-
Forgot my debit card yesterday, probably an upshot of feeling I'd be okay with my watch.
Went to starbucks 'euro garage' drive through, no contactless.
Needed something from Tesco, no contactless.
Went to Spar no contactless, they had contactless in Post Office bit, that was still open, but didn't seem keen to help.
So I think we may stuggle with just watch as of August 2015.
Forgot my debit card yesterday, probably an upshot of feeling I'd be okay with my watch.
Went to starbucks 'euro garage' drive through, no contactless.
Needed something from Tesco, no contactless.
Went to Spar no contactless, they had contactless in Post Office bit, that was still open, but didn't seem keen to help.
So I think we may stuggle with just watch as of August 2015.
I think that'll depend on where you are located.
In London I have no trouble paying for my train ride with the watch, buying a coffee, lunch and then train ride home. All without using a debit card or cash.
yes I imagine London being good, this was Flintshire and Wirral areas.
I guess retailers aren't going to change their terminals until the terminals lease is due for renewal with the card company.
As they would incur extra costs themselves.
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I've just paid with my Watch for the first time at the tiny local chemist in our village. Staff there were amazed it worked and how quick it was! The nearest huge Tesco to here doesn't take contactless but this tiny, local retailer does ...
Used in Aldi last night, the woman on the till said they have had issues and it may not work but I can try it.. She was surprised it worked! Not sure if people are doing it wrong somehow or the machine had been fixed.
They need a new punchy word for contactless. By the time I've tried to explain how I want to pay, it would have been quicker to use a card.
Tesco will have all their shops refitted by the end of the year
Also, as no one else has mentioned it yet, Marks and Spencers doesn't have a limit on contactless payment at the moment
Where's your source for that? As it seems that they're avoiding contactless in order to push their 'PayQwiq' service instead.....
It's attempting to be 'Quick' but of course when read literally it sounds like 'Coo-wick-oo'
The updated NatWest/RBS app for the phone and watch is pretty cool.
Now you can get cash out by generating a one-time code on the watch, you tap this code into any RBS, NatWest or Tesco cashpoint and out comes your money. No need to get the debit card out.
Matt
Now you can get cash out by generating a one-time code on the watch, you tap this code into any RBS, NatWest or Tesco cashpoint and out comes your money. No need to get the debit card out.
Matt
I think that's just all watch apps. Expect it to speed up with watchOS2.
Back on topic: come on Halifax, I want to use Apple Pay!
yes its slower than other watch apps. It seems like it locks up whenever it is waiting for data from the phone. EE was being slow when I was trying it and it felt like the watch app had hung.
ah that's ok glad it wasn't just me, I was on wifi at the time and everything else worked ok!
If you mean launching the App, then No. Mine always takes just several seconds. Just tried it again on Wifi and it was 8 seconds. On the 3 Network 7 seconds.