Apple Pay UK launch 30th June

[Scottio200]

Just a heads up for those who didn't see the Keynote last week,

Apple Pay will be launching in the UK on June 30th with support for the following banks/cards :

American Express
First Direct
HSBC
Nationwide
NatWest
RBS
Santander
Ulster Bank

Coming soon :

Bank of Scotland
Halifax
Lloyds Bank
M&S Bank
MBNA
TSB

No mention of Barclays at all here, which is surprising!

You can use Apple Pay in stores with your iPhone 6 and 6+ or with Apple Watch (Which gives support to iPhone 5, 5c and 5s) Use of Apple Pay is also supported in App's with iPhone 6, 6+, iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3

It looks like you can use it anywhere that supports contactless for transactions for less than £20 (£30 in September), and for transactions over £20 it can be used in the following :

Apple Retail Store
Boots
BP
Costa
KFC
Liberty London
Lidl
M&S
M&S Food
McDonalds
New Look
Post Office
Pret
Spar
Starbucks
Sub Way
TFL (Transport for London)
Waitrose

I would expect this list to grow over the coming months too as retailers can bypass the £20/£30 limit for Apple Pay should they want to

So, who is going to be using Apple Pay when it launches in 10 days?

Thanks

Scottio

[evilsatan]

I can see this being really cool on the watch, saves any messing around and potentially attracting thieves to your wallet (although I can see muggings occurring for the watch). Not sure I will use it with my phone.

As more apps are released on the watch I am more tempted but my main concern still stands with the durability as I do knock my watch during a normal working day, and the second gen of any new Apple kit tends to be a lot better than the first as they iron out the majority of bugs/design flaws.

I read that the sport has normal glass and the standard has sapphire glass, not sure if that's stronger for knocks or just scratch resistance.

[Scottio200]

So its not the 1st July but today Apple Pay has launched, just added my NatWest card to my phone and watch

Will try it on lunch today

Thanks

Scottio

[jimbo77]

So its not the 1st July but today Apple Pay has launched, just added my NatWest card to my phone and watch

Will try it on lunch today

Thanks

Scottio

how do you add to watch?? i have added to passbook on my phone but does not seem to have sync'd to my watch

[BertRoot]

You add it separately to the watch by using the watch app on your phone. Done it and was he same till I launched the watch app and checked out the Passbook and ApplePay item in the first screen.

[evilsatan]

Added an AMEX to my phone and it shows me all my recent transactions even though I haven't used the phone to pay for anything. Pretty cool, will be more practical when everywhere accepts contactless so I can empty my wallet of some cards.

[Scottio200]

Added an AMEX to my phone and it shows me all my recent transactions even though I haven't used the phone to pay for anything. Pretty cool, will be more practical when everywhere accepts contactless so I can empty my wallet of some cards.

I have recently switched to a wallet case for my iPhone. I only carry my Drivers License, Fuel Card and Debit Card around with me now. Suppose I can take the debit card out now, as I can get money out of a cash machine and pay for stuff using my iPhone now.

Just tried it to buy my lunch, worked seamlessly with my Apple Watch. I had my card ready for it to fail, but it didn't! Never been so happy to spend money

This is the future haha

Scottio

[evilsatan]

Do ATMs have contactless? I never knew, what limit do they have for withdrawals? I assume they still request the pin so same limits as the card. I have so many cards in my wallet it would be great to be able to leave some behind.

[Scottio200]

Do ATMs have contactless? I never knew, what limit do they have for withdrawals? I assume they still request the pin so same limits as the card. I have so many cards in my wallet it would be great to be able to leave some behind.

Sorry should have been clearer, with the NatWest app I can get a code to put in a cash machine to withdraw up to £250 a day out