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iOS 18 Enables You to Use Apple Pay With Chrome and More on Desktop

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Apple this week previewed a new system that will allow iPhone users who update to iOS 18 to use Apple Pay in any desktop web browser, such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and others. The computer running the browser can even be a Windows PC.

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Any website that implements the latest version of Apple Pay will support this new system. When a customer checks out with Apple Pay in a desktop browser other than Safari, a code will appear on the screen that can be scanned in the Camera app on an iPhone running iOS 18 or later, allowing them to complete the purchase on the iPhone.

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Apple provided more details about this system in a WWDC 2024 coding session released today. It will take time for website developers to adopt the latest Apple Pay SDK, so this feature will not be widely available on the web right away.

Apple Pay on the desktop web was previously limited to Safari on a Mac, so this is a much-awaited expansion of the feature to more browsers and devices.

iOS 18 is currently in beta, and it should be widely released in September.

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Does the password syncing also work in other browsers.

I'm really loving this if true. Apple traditionally has been so much about their ecosystem and not anyone else's that it made most of their services useless to me. But I'm glad to see they may be opening up a bit.
 
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This can also be used by physical retail stores to accept payments at self-service kiosks without needing an NFC card terminal.

It will also be useful in the future with Apple Vision glasses to pay just by looking at a code at a restaurant or other store.
 
Saturn1217 said:
Does the password syncing also work in other browsers.

I'm really loving this if true. Apple traditionally has been so much about their ecosystem and not anyone else's that it made most of their services useless to me. But I'm glad to see they may be opening up a bit.
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Keychain passwords already work in Chrome and Edge on Mac and Windows with an extension, so I'm sure it will.
 
...and why can't an iPad be used for this feature?

Reall shows the priorities at Apple. Mac/iPad software getting the scraps of attention in the organization
 
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so the other browsers can't use TouchID like Safari can? I'd rather use Safari than a browser that requires me to have my phone too.
 
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ApAx said:
More like increasing number of transactions through Apple Pay since safari is a small slice of the browser pie.
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They get a cut frorm it, I always wondered why they were so closed with it when it literally makes them money.
 
Umm…for anyone thinking Apple is being altruistic and saving the world here, you do realise they profit from every single Apple Pay transaction made, right?
 
Having to reach for your iPhone, opening the camera, lining it up correctly and then scanning a QR code and pressing the little link feels kinda clunky, but it's better than nothing.
 
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