We understand that American Express, First Direct, HSBC, NatWest, Nationwide, RBS, Santander and Ulster Bank will support Apple Pay at the UK launch in July. There is no news on the UK launch, at all.Įight UK banks are on-board with Apple Pay – all the high-street names, with the notable exception of Barclays. Samsung says it has partnered with MasterCard and Visa, but has made no specific announcements about other banks, or vendors. Samsung Pay vs Apple Pay: banks and stores We are expecting Apple Pay to launch in the UK on July 14. The company stopped short of revealing a UK (or European) launch date for Apple Pay at that time, but at the WWDC keynote on 8 June it finally announced that the service would launch for UK users in July 2015. And at its Apple Watch event on March 9th it confirmed that owners would also be able to use their wrist-mounted gadget to pay for stuff too. But there are some signs of life: Samsung Pay entered a north American beta test in the past few days.Īpple made a big deal of being able to make secure payments via NFC when it launched the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Right now there is no UK release date (and no sign of one). Samsung Pay will launch in Summer 2015, according to the company, but only in the US and Korea, with Europe following later. There are also NFC chips in the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, but they appear to be deactivated for the time being no iPad is able to use the full, in-store version of Apple Pay. There are NFC antennae in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but not in any earlier iPhones. You put your iPhone on the sensor, put your finger on the Touch ID fingerprint scanner to identify yourself, and that’s it. If the shop you’re in supports Apple Pay, they will have a little sensor by the till.
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