Apple Pay With Express Transit Mode Coming Soon to San Francisco Bay Area's Clipper Card

[ceriess]

The Clipper card, used for transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, appears set to gain support for Apple Pay with Express Transit mode in the near future.

With Apple Pay integration, Clipper cards will be able to be added to iPhone and Apple Watch and used for BART, Caltrain, Muni, VTA and more. Express Transit Mode will be supported, which means transit can be authenticated with just a tap, and no need to use Face ID, Touch ID, or touch a vending machine.

Though BART and Muni will offer tap authentication, Apple says that using the Clipper card with Apple Pay on SFMTA cable cars and other transit services with handheld card readers will require authentication with Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode.

Apple has set up an Apple Pay website for the Clipper card, allowing those in the San Francisco Bay Area to be notified when the Apple Pay feature launches.

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Well, knowing the Bay Area, I'm sure they can find a way to **** this up.

 

[jimthing]

Next question, why has Oyster card not been added to Express Transit in London?

I'm guessing it's related to the 4-bit (thus 15 zones maximum) issue the Oyster card system currently has, meaning TfL likely want to move it all over to contactless debit/credit card usage – which works in Express Transit now.

But season/discount Oyster card users are still stuck using them, so if the TfL network expands beyond 15 zones, how is TfL going to handle it going forward? I guess no one (even seemingly TfL, lol!) knows.

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Interesting. Why, what does that do?

 

[DogHouseDub]

Who knew nearly half of the longtime members of MR live around just a single city.

To be fair, there are almost 8M people in the Bay Area. A few of those are tech oriented.

 

[lucas]

Awesome, I wish they’d do this with my local PT network

 

[dampfnudel]

Even New York did it sooner and usually they’re last in implementing new technologies.

 

[dontwalkhand]

Even New York did it sooner and usually they’re last in implementing new technologies.

Not really, this implementation is different than New York's early rollout. We have yet to see the OMNY physical card and the OMNY virtual card inside of Apple Pay yet, though they are supposed to come by 2023

 

[cmaier]

Even New York did it sooner and usually they’re last in implementing new technologies.

NY had the advantage of a very recent revamp of the entirety of it as digital systems, at least.

 

[tonywalk]

Manchester (UK) has had ClipperCards since 1979

 

[dontwalkhand]

Manchester (UK) has had ClipperCards since 1979

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Funny you mention Manchester, now they have technology by Vix Technology, which is the same technology partner for the modern SFMTA ClipperCard now. (Now Cubic has taken over that project from Vix).

 

[richard371]

Anyone get this to work by just tapping the phone to the reader? I have to unlock mine and select the clipper card for bart and muni. On iPhone 12 Pro Max 14.5.

 

[cmaier]

Anyone get this to work by just tapping the phone to the reader? I have to unlock mine and select the clipper card for bart and muni. On iPhone 12 Pro Max 14.5.

Do you have it set as your express transit card?

 

[richard371]

Do you have it set as your express transit card?

Yes.