Apple Shares Details on Cleaning and Protecting Your Apple Card in New Support Document

[konqerror]

I'm actually more surprised how they use cheques everywhere in the US.

Checks in the US were very universal and nationwide, unlike Europe where checks and giro didn't cross national borders, at least very well. That is, in the US it almost worked well. So in 2003, the US overhauled the check clearing system with Check 21, where checks were scanned and became electronic transactions. This led to the system working good for consumers with mobile deposit. Also computers became adept at reading handwriting, and they figured you could send the rest of the images to India for keying, so there's little manual processing today.

Canada took another 11 years, late 2014, to digitize their check system, and I believe Europe is still fragmented in that regard.

 

[adamjackson]

This is the most Apple-EY thing in a long time and I love it. As someone with a few metal cards, I can attest they all get pretty beat up fast and Apple's doc is spot on. I'm going to keep my card in the envelope it came in with the rest of my Apple Boxes and only use the card for Apple Pay as designed.

 

[halluxsinister]

Is anyone selling a protective case for the apple card yet?

Protective CASE? It needs its very own WALLET, all to itself, because it’s that special. In fact, the very-own-wallet just for your iCredit iCard really needs its own custom-made, hand-sewn iPocket, JUST for that card. A regular pocket made of some common ... ugh... fabric, just isn’t good enough for the wallet that carries the iCard. It must be made of silk, with a microfiber lining, in case somehow your card should touch the inside of the pocket, WITHOUT the protective caress of the iWallet.

Truly this is getting... iNsane.

By the way, if you try to buy a Microsoft Surface laptop with you iCard, it will... iMplode... on you. Fair warning.

 

[Hieveryone]

Now we have to clean our credit cards?

No thank you. I'll keep my Amex.

 

[Coffee50]

For those that have the apple card, how are you liking it? Yeah, I know it's just a credit card, lol, just curious to see how well the wallet layout is in terms of spending info / breakdowns & how the daily cash aspects are utilized.

 

[konqerror]

BTW, what's up with saying that compressed air will damage the card's finish?

I think they mean air duster products but are putting it in layman's terms. The propellants they use are actually mild solvents and, if sprayed as liquid, will attack some materials.

 

[Hieveryone]

Good grief. Next it’ll come with Apple Care +

Apple Care + for only $199. Covers incidental plus water damage up to 2 replacements (with $29 fee)

Hahaha

 

[Boatboy24]

Rules!!?? Seriously!!??

 

[Corsig]

Wait. People clean their credit cards??

 

[routine_analyst]

Freaky world this forum lives in to think anyone would actually do this.

Are they saying that if you damage or lose this card you can't get a replacement?

 

[vmac556]

i wonder how much these clowns charge for replacement cards if lost/stolen

edit: just checked its free, so whats the point of cleaning and protecting your apple card?

 

[nazaar]

This is pathetic.... Apple has jumped the shark.

 

[azentropy]

Something right out of The Onion...

 

[pducharme]

Just put a transparant film over it, very thin, with a mate finish and a cutout for the chip. This way, the card will stay as new.

also, BRING THIS TO CANADA please !!

 

[JBGoode]

It amazes me that people are bent out of shape because Apple is proactively providing answers to questions that will undoubtedly be asked by all of the anal retentive card holders. No one is telling you that you need to do any of these things.

 

[maxfromdenmark]

But will it blend?

 

[uwdude]

When did Apple change from a company with customers who "Think Different" and want products that work better, into a company catering to people with OCD and having everything look pristine and perfect with instructions for that? How did we get to this point?

 

[npmacuser5]

Apple Card malfunctions, just order another one. I might need to order one every month. I will not change how I carry my credit cards. Been doing it for decades. Even if it costs Apple and Goldman Sachs millions a year. They need to fix the card or just accept the problems as cost of doing business.

Update: “If your titanium Apple Card comes into contact with hard surfaces or materials, it's possible that the coating can be damaged.” Translate, do not insert into a chip or mag stripe reader. See above statement.

 

[_Refurbished_]

Should have just gone with the Handsome Anthony....

 

[wheelhot]

Another pointless form before function design by Apple. This is not good design, this is crappy design. I wonder was Ive behind this design decision or it was the new people. If it's the new people, guess my hope for a change in Apple design is best to be forgotten.

 

[Gutwrench]

Except if they're leather.

Time for the Apple Card owners to break out the chaps.

 

[pweicks]

Only Apple would make a manual on how to clean their credit card.

 

[konqerror]

When did Apple change from a company with customers who "Think Different" and want products that work better, into a company catering to people with OCD and having everything look pristine and perfect with instructions for that? How did we get to this point?

By making beautiful products and not cheap plastic crap.

Do you think Mercedes aren't generally kept cleaner and in better condition than Hyundais?

Since when has Apple's brand image been "rough and dirty"?

 

[TheRealDGD]

Well planned marketing. Make a uniqueness to a product that is mainstream, get the people to jump on board with all the hype and in a couple of years this will all blend into the background and you won't care what the card looks like and Apple will have done its job of gaining customer base. Discover It card did the same move, call them now and you get automation first explaining their new and improved system, press #1, blah blah blah... a couple years back you called and a real person answered the initial ring as per their advertising..... actually Apple is hitting a home run with all this attention!!!!

 

[swingerofbirch]

This is almost a joke . . . to say it shouldn't come in contact with leather?

I would wager the majority of wallets are leather.

With Goldman Sachs as the bank and MasterCard as the creditor, Apple's job was to bring fashion to the table. Which they said they were: