The watch is so easy to use Apple Pay on. Costco, Randall’s, Walgreens, a lot of convenient stores….it just works.
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I'm seeing it occasionally now. Can't wait for it to be ubiquitous at the pump.... that's one of the last reasons that I ever need to carry a wallet.
I’m the only one using it among my friends and family. People have an unfounded fear based on bad information about of how much more secure it is over a swipe or even a tap card. They think the wallet is being stored on the cloud that hackers can see. Apple needs to do a better job of explaining the Secure Enclave.
that's exactly right. i don't get it either. i don't see how they benefit from using cards vs. apple pay, especially given how easy it is to integrate at this day in age...
Yet another reminder that we nerds live in a bubble and represent a tiny fraction of the overall market.
Why ? there is no fingerprint to the AW. I use everywhere that accepts it and get annoyed at placed that don't For the places that don't I look for alternatives that do.
and half of the time even when the pump has an apple pay icon — it won't work!
Exxon/Mobil does. A lot of the stations have NFC terminals at the pump, but their APP also takes Apple Pay, and you can use the app at any of their stations
My company's credit union still doesn't support Apple Pay. Needless to say, I bank elsewhere now.,
You can still use those cards and get those rewards with Apple Pay...
Sorry, I should have said card contactless. As for Apple Pay being limitless, most of the time it is, but some card readers haven’t been updated and still have the card contactless limit for Apple Pay payments.
Apple Pay would be even more prolific in the UK but a lot of people think that card contactless limit applies to Apple Pay
It should not have anything to do with which cards, I have all my cards in my Apple Wallet and can use any one of that that I choose on the Watch at the POS
I use it all the time for online purchases and it works great. With merchants such as Whole Foods and Sprouts it rarely works, and then it still requires entering a PIN, and ask if I want cash back, which defeats the purpose of contactless payments (hello COVID). Merchants need to get their POS systems refined.
Basically, every place I go doesn't accept Apple Pay. As far as I'm aware. Double checked them online and they all say they don't accept it. So, I just use my cards.
Two of them seem to require using their app for NFC payments via phone.
So, I haven't seen a point in setting up the wallet app and jumping through more hoops. At that point it becomes way less convenient than just using a card.
Maybe I misunderstand it. I just don't care enough to investigate further. As using a card is already convenient.
At any rate. Unless I can just seemlessly use it at 100% of card terminals. I won't bother with it. As I'd still have to carry the card with me.
Two of them seem to require using their app for NFC payments via phone.
So, I haven't seen a point in setting up the wallet app and jumping through more hoops. At that point it becomes way less convenient than just using a card.
Maybe I misunderstand it. I just don't care enough to investigate further. As using a card is already convenient.
At any rate. Unless I can just seemlessly use it at 100% of card terminals. I won't bother with it. As I'd still have to carry the card with me.
Personally, I really started to use Apple Pay for all payments after I bought an Apple Watch. The reason is because with an iPhone, I had to extract it from my pocket, so exactly the same thing than extracting my wallet from the pocket (that I was more used to do), it is not so faster than typing a code on a terminal because sometime FaceId does not work (and some terminal placed in a way that is very difficult to place the iPhone while looking at it), I don't see any advantage but security, however I never had a stolen credit card number or any other problem, so I don't care so much...
The Apple Watch is the game changer for Apple Pay because you have it always on your wrist, nothing to extract from your pocket or bag; moreover, sometime (for sport, or going to the beach, walking in my neighbourhood, in general any time I go out for a short walk of one hour or less...) I take with me ONLY the Apple Watch (LTE version) and the key of my home: no iPhone, no wallet...
For these reasons I started to use Apple Pay ALL THE TIME, but only when I started to use the Apple Watch. With iPhone, it is not so useful IMHO
The Apple Watch is the game changer for Apple Pay because you have it always on your wrist, nothing to extract from your pocket or bag; moreover, sometime (for sport, or going to the beach, walking in my neighbourhood, in general any time I go out for a short walk of one hour or less...) I take with me ONLY the Apple Watch (LTE version) and the key of my home: no iPhone, no wallet...
For these reasons I started to use Apple Pay ALL THE TIME, but only when I started to use the Apple Watch. With iPhone, it is not so useful IMHO
It's gotten to a point where I can't find places that I'm not able to use it, rather than the other way around. Even at the DMV I've been able to use Apple Pay. The only places where it's unavailable are Walmart (which unfortunately is close enough to my house that I can't avoid it), some smaller businesses, and a handful of gas stations near me.
What's crazy is that when I use it, some people think I'm from the future or something. Like when I was at the DMV, the lady said I was the first person she saw use a phone to pay. And this was a large branch.
What's crazy is that when I use it, some people think I'm from the future or something. Like when I was at the DMV, the lady said I was the first person she saw use a phone to pay. And this was a large branch.
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Wow. That is low but I still get people that look at me in amazement when I pay using my Watch. And my wife tells me the same thing. We use as often as possible.
Very much disagree. Since the pandemic, I'd say 90% of places I visit (in central CT) have Apple Pay. That includes a growing number of restaurants. Whether they advertise that fact or not is a different story. And last time I was in the city, I didn't have to use my physical card once.
This is probably why Apple released their own credit card, to continue to grow in the payment market
i understand that your experience was different, but i live here, so either i'm lying, or there are still many places that don't accept apple pay.
You are right. People just don’t want to take off their masks for authentication. In fact, using Touch ID for Apple Pay is easier than Face ID even without the face mask issue.