Apple Pay

Apple announced on Thursday that Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available to users in the UK. For those unfamiliar, the feature turns the iPhone into a payment terminal, so vendors can use their phone to accept contactless payments. Now it seems that Tap to Pay is coming soon to Brazil as well.

Apple has announced that Tap to Pay on iPhone has now rolled out to the UK, enabling small businesses to accept Apple Pay and contactless card payments using nothing more than their iPhone. It follows earlier international expansion to Taiwan and Australia.

The feature, which allows iPhone owners to accept payment without a separate card-reader, was first announced in February of last year, with a gradual rollout in the US through a growing range of payment processors …

Earlier this year, Apple launched its online store in Vietnam, which came as huge news to people living in the country who relied entirely on third-party resellers to buy Apple products. And it seems Apple is serious about expanding its operations in the country, as a recent rumor suggests Apple Pay is coming soon to Vietnam.

Planned improvements to NFC specifications are likely to see improvements to Apple Pay range and speed.

Another proposed change would enable the Wallet app to get smarter, as the standard will begin supporting multiple actions with a single tap …

watchOS 10 brings a lot of new features for Apple Watch users, as well as a new interface for the system. But besides what Apple mentioned during the opening keynote of WWDC 2023, there are also some other new features hidden across the system. One interesting change is that users can now add cards to Apple Pay directly from the Apple Watch without the need to use an iPhone.

Earlier this spring we saw Apple and McDonald’s team up to offer free McNuggets with an Apple Pay promo. Now the pair are back this time with a slight tweak – use Apple Cash via Apple Pay for at least a $1 purchase and get a free McChicken sandwich. Here’s how it works.

Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the United States, began rolling out support for Apple Pay last month. Kroger had been a longtime Apple Pay holdout, but its decision to finally adopt Apple’s payment platform has put a renewed amount of pressure on another major holdout: Walmart.

Earlier this month, Apple launched Apple Pay in Guatemala and El Salvador. As expansion into Central American countries continues, the company is now rolling out its payments platform to users in Panama, which is the 81st country in the world to have Apple Pay.

Update: Apple Pay was also launched in Honduras today.

Apple’s Tap to Pay service is rolling out to Australia, following last month’s expansion into Taiwan. The service allows small business to accept contactless payments without the need for a payment terminal.

Westpac and Tyro Payments are supporting Tap to Pay from today, while four more payment platforms will offer the facility “in the coming months” …

Apple is facing increasing antitrust pushback in the European Union over its tap-to-pay Apple Pay platform. A new report from Bloomberg details that European Union antitrust investigators are ramping up their probe into Apple Pay after soliciting more information from retailers on the usage of and availability of mobile payment platforms.

Apple Pay has revealed its promotions for Mother’s Day. There are four deals to take 15 to 40% off flowers, chocolates, handbags, and personalized gifts. Here are all the detail on the latest offers when using Apple’s payment platform.

Earlier this year, Apple expanded its Apple Pay payments service to South Korea in partnership with Hyundai Card. Now the company is rolling out Apple Pay in Guatemala and El Salvador in partnership with local banks. Read on as we detail more about how to use Apple Pay in these countries.

It’s almost a decade since I first suggested that we might one day see an Apple Bank. Given that not even Apple Pay existed back then, I’ll be the first to admit that it seemed a pretty out-there idea at the time.

By 2015, it seemed significantly less of a stretch, and yesterday’s billion dollar news brought us even closer …

Within the last month, Apple has launched Apple Card Savings Account and Apple Pay Later as it continues to push further into consumer finance. A new report from the Financial Times today goes behind the scenes on Apple’s work in finance.

The report includes details on Apple’s relationship with Goldman Sachs, how “Tap to Pay on iPhone” could signal its broader goals in payment networking, and much more.

Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the United States, has been a longtime Apple Pay holdout. According to several 9to5Mac tipsters, as well as other reports on social media, it looks like Kroger is finally changing its tune and beginning to roll out Apple Pay.

A South Korean company has made an Apple Pay patent infringement claim, arguing that it owns a 2005 patent for the mechanism used by Apple’s mobile wallet service.

The claim follows shortly after the launch of Apple Pay in the country, but the company doesn’t appear to have filed a lawsuit, or even contacted the Cupertino company …

The latest Apple Pay promotion has been announced – free Chicken McNuggets from McDonald’s. Read on for how long the promo is running and all the details to claim your free nuggets.

PayPal has announced that it is now rolling out Apple Pay as a checkout option for small businesses. This means that small businesses using PayPal’s “complete payments solution” online can now offer Apple Pay as a payment option during their checkout flow.

Apple has announced that its long-awaited Apple Pay Later financing service will begin rolling out today. At launch, Apple says that it will “begin inviting select users to access a prerelease version of Apple Pay Later.” It will launch to “all eligible users in the coming months” in the United States.

Last month we discovered that Apple Pay support in South Korea was set to be enabled in iOS 16.4. With the public release coming soon, it was possible Apple was waiting for that launch. However, arriving sooner, it looks like support for Apple’s contactless payment is now live in the country.

Apple users in South Korea have been waiting on Apple Pay to launch in their country for years, and Apple has finally made the official announcement. The company says Apple Pay is “about to launch” in South Korea with support for in-store, in-app, and online purchases.