Apple has closed a loophole that was allowing some Russians to keep using its mobile payment service even though the economic sanctions have been ongoing, an Engadget report says. The company told Russia’s biggest bank on Thursday that it wouldn’t be supporting the Russian Mir...
Apple Pay is now accepted by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) online, but for in-person transactions at retail locations, another payment method is needed, according to reports on Monday (Dec. 20). Although the USPS wasn’t a supporter of Apple Pay, a recent website update showed...
Fans of the Apple Inc. ecosystem fell in love with its smooth interoperability, whether it was sharing YouTube videos to Facebook, taking FaceTime video calls years before Zoom took off, or enjoying all manner of smartphone experiences delivered in a unified platform fashion. The Apple...
Banks are pushing Visa to alter the way it processes some Apple Pay transactions, a change that would reduce the fees Apple receives from those institutions. According to media accounts on Tuesday (Oct. 5), Visa plans to institute the change next year, although sources told...
Researchers have recently discovered a loophole in iPhones that allows hackers to make unauthorized contactless payments on locked mobile phones by exploiting an Apple Pay feature that’s supposed to help users pay quickly using their Visa cards, according to a BBC report Thursday (Sept. 30). ...
Remember this? It was about seven years ago – Sept. 9, 2014 – when Tim Cook took the stage at Apple’s WWDC and introduced Apple Pay. What the world saw that day was a slick user experience that was quintessentially Apple – a mobile payments...
Apple is developing a perk for Apple Pay users that will allow them to buy products and pay for them in monthly installments, according to a Bloomberg report. Still in development, the so-called “Apple Pay Later” offering would be integrated with Apple Pay once it...
Apple’s digital wallet Apple Pay is under fire for possible antitrust violations, adding to the previous scrutiny over alleged anticompetitive behavior in its App Store, according to a report in Financial Times on Friday (Dec. 18). Contactless payments have surged amid the coronavirus pandemic that...
Apple Pay users may soon be able to use a feature in the Wallet app to make payments by scanning a QR code. AppleInsider reports the new method would no longer require near field communication (NFC), the wireless data transfer that enables nearby devices to communicate without...
