Yeah, I wondered about it but they told me it just worked for someone with Google Pay
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Yeah, I wondered about it but they told me it just worked for someone with Google Pay
Yeah, I wondered about it but they told me it just worked for someone with Google Pay
Well, the only other thing I can think of is cashier error, not choosing credit as the method of payment, perhaps.
I still have to instruct employees at Subway how to accept NFC payments. "Ring it up as a credit sale.. Now watch.."
It works fine on mine. Maybe you got a bad watch? Now that Apple stores have them in stock, you might be able to swap one by showing it to the Genius bar guy.
On a side note, can't wait till Passbook has loyalty cards, gym memberships, etc. Would love to just bring them up on Apple Watch.
On a side note, can't wait till Passbook has loyalty cards, gym memberships, etc. Would love to just bring them up on Apple Watch.
I was relieved to learn that it wasn't automatic, because our transit system uses NFC and will charge a full fare to any NFC enabled credit card (unless that card has been activated as a transit pass). Passengers had to learn not to hold their entire wallets up to the readers if they contained other credit cards with NFC chips because the wrong card might be used.
Does the Apple Pay on the watch need input from the user to authorize the transaction like on the iPhone/iPad?
No because it's already linked to you using skin contact and the passcode you enter when you put the watch on.
What I'd like to know is, as and when I travel on the underground with my child who doesn't have is own debit card, can my son use my physical debit card whilst I use the same card stored on my apple watch with Apple Pay? Or will that just confuse the hell out of the NFC readers and my bank?
I had my card set in Apple Pay today but since I took the passcode off my watch it looks like the card is gone now. Does that always happen?
It's not hard once you figure out that the slower double click speed you can use on the iPhone's home button (around 130 bpm) will not pull up Apple Pay on the watch. I believe that Apple will want this to be easy for everyone to use Apple Pay, so they should adjust the "tempo" of the double click so that new users don't get frustrated and give up.
http://www.ipl.com/news/blog/2014/why-apple-pay-unlikely-take-off-in-uk#.VYdsulKgnCQ
Any opinions on this?
Any opinions on this?
BTW, the Trader Joes location I go to in Los Angeles just enabled Apple Pay on their new terminals sometime in the last week. Last Sunday it was disabled, but tonight it shows Apple Pay and Google Wallet logos and I tested it with my watch and it worked great!
At some point I'm going to get tired of explaining to cashiers what I'm talking about.
"I'd like to pay with Apple Pay."
Blank stare
Then I explain it to them. This is usually at McDonald's in the drive-thru since they have to unhook the machine and put it out the window.
I'll be honest: When I was their age, credit cards confused me. There were 50 buttons on the terminal and I think I used two of them. I worked at a drive-thru in the mid-1990s when paying via credit card still wasn't common. So I get that. But I have seen the freakin' awesome POS machines these places have and THEY ARE SO MUCH EASIER THAN WHAT WE USED. I just wish they got better training or had a cheat sheet on what to do.
You have to keep your passcode enabled!
It's necessary for security reasons...
What a load of cobblers.
It poses 3 questions: Is it compelling (yes), is it secure (yes) and is it more convenient(yes)?
Then it goes on a rant about it not sharing enough of your data with the retailer (huh?).
Apple Pay is such a mixed bag. The largest grocery chain here in Houston, H-E-B, added NFC readers at every single checkout lane in the last couple of months. These things have the biggest NFC logo and reader I've ever seen. Seriously, the reader is probably bigger than the touch screen below it. And yet not a single one actually works. At every McDonald's drive-thru I've been to the reader is bolted to the wall, despite the fact that they have about half a dozen signs/stickers in the drive-thru lane saying that Apple Pay is accepted at the drive-thru.
If Apple wants Apple Pay to take off they should focus on the types of stores that people shop at the most. That means grocery stores and gas stations. So far they seem to be focusing on the sorts of places people go to maybe 4 or 5 times a year. I still LOL every time I see the Radio Shack logo on the Apple Pay website.
If Apple wants Apple Pay to take off they should focus on the types of stores that people shop at the most. That means grocery stores and gas stations. So far they seem to be focusing on the sorts of places people go to maybe 4 or 5 times a year. I still LOL every time I see the Radio Shack logo on the Apple Pay website.
Sorry to hear that someone else is having an issue making the double click work, but it's been totally easy for me without a single issue. I love Apple Pay on the Watch!
My opinion? Apple Pay will be welcomed by many of us (myself included) whom currently use Contactless payments.
I'm going to London next month and can't wait to try it out on the London Underground; I've (briefly) tried iOS 9 on my iPad Air 2 and one of the supporting partners (Santander) are now showing the Terms and Conditions for using Apple Pay with my Visa Debit card.
Was on a phone call when doing self checkout at a Meijer yesterday for a couple things and I noticed the NFC logo on the keypad, so with my phone in one hand at my ear i just waved my watch in front of the keypad- 2 seconds and i was done and out the door. It's so unbelievably convenient and thus far I haven't had issues with it but it will only get better in the upcoming months, I'm sure.