Payments for the British Government's Global Entry Service can now be made through Apple Pay, meaning transactions can be approved with fingerprints or facial recognition.
Apple Pay is now available in Austria, its 36th market.
Apple Pay is currently available in 33 countries but it looks like the iPhone maker might soon meet its self-imposed goal of having it available in forty countries worldwide in 2019 because the mobile payments service appears to be launching soon in a bunch of European countries.
The process of activating your Apple Card so it can be used immediately is remarkably similar to pairing your AirPods—you just need to bring the physical card near an unlocked iPhone.
Apple's tweaked the official brand name of its Apple Pay Cash feature that launched in December 2017. Henceforth, the peer-to-peer payments service shall be known as Apple Cash.
Apple Pay is launching in Austria soon, its 31st market.
Apple at today's "It's Showtime" event officially announced Apple Card, a brand new credit card with some very cool smarts that was built on principles of simplicity, transparency and privacy in partnership with investment bank Goldman Sachs and financial services giant MasterCard.
Apple Pay launched in Saudi Arabia and the Czech Republic today.
Target, one of the few major remaining Apple Pay holdouts in the United States, has kicked off a staggered rollout of Apple's mobile payments system over the weekend. The retailer previously said it planned to accept Apple Pay at all of its stores in the coming weeks.
Apple on Wednesday posted a series of short videos to its YouTube channel highlighting Apple Pay Cash. The clips, aptly titled 'They Send, you spend,' are just 15 seconds in length, but do a great job demonstrating how easy it is to send money via Messages.
Apple is gearing up to launch Apple Pay across Target, Taco Bell, Speedaway and other top merchants in the United States.
These retailers will be adopting Apple Pay in the coming weeks:
Target: Rolling out now, will be available in all 1,850 US locations in the coming weeks. Taco Bell: Rolling out to 7,000+ locations in the next few months. Hy-Vee supermarkets: Available today at 245+ Hy-Vee stores in the Midwest. Speedway convenience stores: Available today inside the store at all of Speedway’s approximately 3,000 locations across the Midwest, East Coast and Southeast. Jack in the Box: Rolling out to 2,200 locations in the next few months.The company wrote in a press release issued this morning that with the addition of these national retailers, 74 of the top 100 US merchants now accept its mobile payment solution.
Whether customers are buying everyday household items, groceries, snacks for a road trip or grabbing a quick meal, Apple Pay is the easiest way to pay in stores, while also being secure and faster than using a credit or debit card at the register.
We’re thrilled even more customers will be able to pay at their favorite stores and restaurants using the Apple devices that are always with them.
Jennifer Bailey, Apple VP of Internet Services
Apple acknowledged that Costco last year completed the Apple Pay rollout to 500+ US warehouses while CVS Pharmacy introduced the solution at all of its 8,400 standalone locations. 7-Eleven launched Apple Pay at 95 percent of its US stores last year.
Apple Pay is a mobile contactless payment system that lets customers easily and securely pay in stores using their iPhone and Apple Watch. It uses tokens for security purposes, meaning no sensitive credit card information is ever exchanged with the merchant.
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Jennifer Bailey, Apple Pay’s Vice President, is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at TRANSACT, the world's largest payments technology show taking place April 30 – May 2, 2019, in Las Vegas's Mandalay Bay Convention Center.