It involves both hands, the one with the watch and the one to click the button. Sometimes that is convenient, sometimes it isn't, depends on what I am carrying. With the phone in my shirt pocket I can use one hand to remove it, look at it while double clicking it with my thumb, then move it over to reader - almost all in one motion. Of course masks make that impossible now so watch is currently only real option.
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Survey: Only 6% of U.S. iPhone Users Who Set Up Apple Pay Actually Use It
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Well I was talking about how Apple Pay on my watch was more convenient than getting something out of my wallet.
By bug I mean one that would cause it to consistently not work at one place while working fine at another. I doubt retrying multiple times at one place would eventually make it work (with some exceptions of course).
Well this would definitely make more sense. I've had cashiers tell me its "blocked" but it was probably told to them by some manager who just didn't know. I've also read it on other forums. Interesting because usually when it happens the terminal reads "payment type not accepted" or "transaction declined".....rather than error.
I think many are scared. Some of my friends dont even use a credit card and carry those weird pieces of papers and get metal circular objects back in the transactions
Once I started using Apple Pay, I Never went back! So damn convenient! Literally everywhere I shop in person has Apple Pay. The last hold out was Target but they eventually got in line when their stupid payment system failed lol.
Oh lord... yeah I remember all the hoopla surrounding MCX CurrentC
Target, CVS, Walmart, Best Buy and a dozen other stores tried to create their own mobile phone touchless payment system.
The wiki says it was cancelled in 2016... though I don't think it was even fully deployed before they cancelled it completely.
Luckily it seems most of those stores finally started accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay, and the other big payment systems.
Except for Walmart... which, I believe, you still have to use the Walmart Mobile App to scan QR Codes... how quaint.
I can't use Apple Pay in my local gas stations or grocery stores. Until that becomes ubiquitous, I can't see how Apple Pay can break out.
Only to the local yokel businesses down here in rural Va. I use AP as much as possible. Food Lion, Publix, Love’s gas, online ordering. Can’t say the same for Samsung Pay on my Note 10 though…
Fair enough. The last time I wrote a cheque was in 2007 when I bought my first house. Never had a need since and don’t have a cheque book anymore. I did make that comment as a joke though lol.
Add me to the list that finds 6% difficult to believe. Although Apple nags about it with each OS update, it takes significant manual effort to get a credit card entered in and ready for use. People who go to this trouble are at least going to try it out. And why would merchant adoption be so widespread if the user base was so low? Who funds this "PYMNTS" and what are their motivations?
Sometimes if option comes up online I may use it. Never at stores though. It’s still pretty much garbage along with Apple Card.
What a nightmare CurrentC was. I am so glad that died. I avoided CVS whenever possible when they were a part of that group of Apple Pay holdouts.
For whatever reason, some readers don't function very well. When they work, it's great, but it's also a pain to get some to read the signal, particularly at gas stations.......although someone mentioned that they might be turned off. Other than the fact that not every merchant accepts ApplePay, I suspect that the massive convenience of online ordering online as well as our increased usage of online ordering, many without Apple Pay, also contributes to that small percentage.
Thank you for the education. I didn't know that either!Oh sure, that's entirely fair. I think at the time, too, it was far more common to have people yank out their phones to pay than to dip their Apple Watch to the card reader, which was part of it for me - clerks were expecting me to hover my iPhone over it, so that's what I did.
What's funny is the number of times I've had to correct store clerks who would see me pull out my phone and say, "Oh, we don't take Apple Pay" and I had to tell them that if they have a "tap" system for credit cards, they take Apple Pay.
Fortunately, too, they've been grateful for the education.
It is possible that use of Apple Pay may have dropped because the wearing of masks makes it more cumbersome to authenticate with Face ID, but I agree that 6% is ridiculously low.
Wonder what prompted them to automatically say "we don't take Apple Pay"?Oh sure, that's entirely fair. I think at the time, too, it was far more common to have people yank out their phones to pay than to dip their Apple Watch to the card reader, which was part of it for me - clerks were expecting me to hover my iPhone over it, so that's what I did.
What's funny is the number of times I've had to correct store clerks who would see me pull out my phone and say, "Oh, we don't take Apple Pay" and I had to tell them that if they have a "tap" system for credit cards, they take Apple Pay.
Fortunately, too, they've been grateful for the education.
I use Apple Pay as often as I can, mainly to hide my CC number from the merchant. I'm frustrated, though, when still asked for my PIN when using our debit card. Dumb.
Honestly, thinking about checks is instructive as to why AP is not as prominent as one might expect. There is a massive convivence gulf between writing a check and any type of credit card payment (swipe, chip, or tap). With plastic, you quickly interact with a terminal. Writing a check means retrieving a checkbook and a pen, filling in the details, waiting for the final cost, filling that in, and then having the check scanned by a clerk.
The difference between tapping a card and tapping a phone is quite small. It took years and years for checks to become uncommon payment methods in stores, despite the large benefits of plastic. It will take far longer for phone/watch payments to really become the standard.
FWIW, I do still write checks under certain circumstances. Just yesterday I paid a contractor with a check, as using a card came with a 3% processing fee. That's a couple hundred dollars. Looking at my checkbook, it seems I write one or two per year.
