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If you have Apple Pay enabled, the Apple Watch automatically PIN passcode locks if you remove it from your wrist (make sure wrist detection is enabled).
You can even have it erase the watch after 10 failed PIN attempts just like your phone.

Understood. it just means that you are without any means of payment if that's all you have on you - i.e.. you've left your traditional cards/wallet at home to go "digital".

p.s. I use Apple pay on my Series2 for every under $100 transaction I can. VERY convenient.
 
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I just got back from a trip to Ireland, and was surprised to find Apple Pay accepted pretty much everywhere. I used for almost every purchase. I think it’s only been around in Ireland a few months now, but way way more places accepting it than here in the USA, where it has been around for years.

The secret is that from the store's perspective they need to support only generic NFC payments where it'll work with NFC-enabled cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay, and whatever NFC payment method you might have. If you come to Finland with your Apple Pay enabled device, you can use it pretty much anywhere as payment terminals without NFC functionality are a rare occurrence now, but as Apple Pay hasn't been released here, any Finnish bank's cards cannot be registered for it. It's a pity as anyone wanting to pay with their phone needs to switch to Android here.
 
They should at least activate NFC pairing for BT devices for the iPhone 6 and newer.
But only 7 and up? Why does Apple Pay work then on older devices?
 
They should at least activate NFC pairing for BT devices for the iPhone 6 and newer.
But only 7 and up? Why does Apple Pay work then on older devices?
Who's gonna buy iphone 7-8 then? The right thing to do here is disable apple pay on iphone 6 and 6s.
 
an Apple Watch app for my driver's license and nothing else. No keys, no wallet, no phone, JUST the watch and Air Pods.

Good luck getting most states, Especially Florida, to buy into this vision of the future. And going through TSA is a pain in the butt enough because people fiddle with their phones to pull up their boarding pass and then fiddle through their wallets to find their ID... imagine the slow-down if everyone was going through their watches and phones to find their digital ID lol. Sometimes things don't NEED to be improved upon. Kinda like going from TouchID to FaceID... if it ain't broke, why try to fix it?
 
Good luck getting most states, Especially Florida, to buy into this vision of the future. And going through TSA is a pain in the butt enough because people fiddle with their phones to pull up their boarding pass and then fiddle through their wallets to find their ID... imagine the slow-down if everyone was going through their watches and phones to find their digital ID lol. Sometimes things don't NEED to be improved upon. Kinda like going from TouchID to FaceID... if it ain't broke, why try to fix it?

But it is broke... When I'm wearing running shorts and have no pockets or the desire to be stabbed by keys while running, or when my hands are full of groceries. As far as slow-downs, I can double click and access my payment card almost faster than digging it out of my wallet, why wouldn't other info be the same? Finally I think we should be taking a step back and seeing TSA for what it really is then eliminating it all together.
 
But it is broke... When I'm wearing running shorts and have no pockets or the desire to be stabbed by keys while running, or when my hands are full of groceries. As far as slow-downs, I can double click and access my payment card almost faster than digging it out of my wallet, why wouldn't other info be the same? Finally I think we should be taking a step back and seeing TSA for what it really is then eliminating it all together.

My door opens with my fingerprint. Maybe it’s just you that’s behind the times?

You lost all credibility when you suggested eliminating the TSA. lol
 
My door opens with my fingerprint. Maybe it’s just you that’s behind the times?

You lost all credibility when you suggested eliminating the TSA. lol
Mine opens with a four digit code or through HomeKit, but either way it's not hands-free.

Lol, sorry... I'm a bit of a minimal-government/almost anarchist! :p
 
Mine opens with a four digit code or through HomeKit, but either way it's not hands-free.

Lol, sorry... I'm a bit of a minimal-government/almost anarchist! :p

I'm all for privatizing Airport Security. Often people who think TSA should be gone are those that think airport security all together is unnecessary, hehe. Believe me, I support privatizing most government functions. Anything the government can do, private industry can do better and cheaper.
 
I'm all for privatizing Airport Security. Often people who think TSA should be gone are those that think airport security all together is unnecessary, hehe. Believe me, I support privatizing most government functions. Anything the government can do, private industry can do better and cheaper.
The issue was before the TSA, airport security was private and it sucked. It lead to major inconsistencies in procedures and huge security gaps. The TSA is no shining beacon of efficiency, but the previous process was way to loose.

If it were to go back to being private, the rules need to be the same across ALL airports.
 
The issue was before the TSA, airport security was private and it sucked. It lead to major inconsistencies in procedures and huge security gaps. The TSA is no shining beacon of efficiency, but the previous process was way to loose.

If it were to go back to being private, the rules need to be the same across ALL airports.

You do realize that many major airports have outsourced the TSA duties to private companies and have done so for years, right? For example, SFO, one of the largest airports in America, outsourced to TSA back in 2007 and has been doing it for 10 years now. No issues. Cheaper. Consistent experience with everywhere else.

If you ever want to know if your airport employs TSA or a third party, look at the marking on their shoulder. It'll say TSA on the lettering if they're actual TSA, or like at SFO it'll say CSA (Covenant Security)... aside from those letters, there's no way to tell if they're TSA or private contractor.
 
My door opens with my fingerprint. Maybe it’s just you that’s behind the times?

You lost all credibility when you suggested eliminating the TSA. lol
How does one LOOSE credibility by advocating for the termination of an agency that has demonstrstraed a <50% success rate (for more than a decade)? We are paying billions to get less safety that what is afforded by the flip of a coin...

But hey 2 year olds get groped, so I guess TSA agents have that going for them, right?
 
How does one LOOSE credibility by advocating for the termination of an agency that has demonstrstraed a <50% success rate (for more than a decade)? We are paying billions to get less safety that what is afforded by the flip of a coin...

But hey 2 year olds get groped, so I guess TSA agents have that going for them, right?

I said lose not loose.

So in your theory, a 0% stop-rate is better than a 50% stop-rate? I don't know, if a seatbelt protects me 50% of the time, and no seat belt protects me 0% of the time, I'm going with a seatbelt.

Your flip a coin analogy is absolutely a poor analogy in this scenario. You're not advocating removal and replacement of the TSA, you're advocating for removal. That's just insanity.

You are terrible at making points. How many 2 year olds get groped per year? Any job, be it law enforcement, TSA, retail employees, etc, are going to have a small percentage of bad apples. In the US, almost a billion people are screened on domestic flights per year. Less than 100 instances per year occur where people complain about inappropriate behavior by TSA. So that's 0.00000001% of the time someone is groped. And out of those nearly 1 BILLION passengers screened each year, how many security incidents have occurred because of the failure of the TSA? You can sit and stare mouth-open at CNN bickering about how some rogue TSA agent made a Muslim take off her Hijab, but if you want to be illogical with your arguments, go somewhere else with them, or expect to be called out for having zero credibility.

I guess since 0.001% of all cops on the street are corrupt, you'll blame the other 99.999% and stop calling the cops when someone commits a crime against you, ehh? Thought not.
 
One thing I really wonder is the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X fully compatible with NFC Type F out of the box? (For those who don't know, NFC Type F is the Sony-developed FeliCa standard, widely used for mobile payments in eastern Asia particularly). If so, that could make the iPhone 8 series and X capable of replacing transit pass cards in much of the world.
 
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