According to leaked internal documents from a British retailer, Apple Pay will be going live next week, on July 14th. Once it goes live, you’ll be able to pay for goods and services in businesses across the UK, using your iPhone and Touch ID to authenticate payments to contactless payment terminals. Here’s what you need to know about the contactless payment system so that you’ll be ready when it kicks off!
Apple Pay will support payments in 250,000 businesses on launch, including Waitrose, M&S, Transport for London and many others. For a full list of locations that will support Apple Pay from launch, check out Apple’s page on the subject. You can also use Apple Pay to pay for goods and services in certain apps. That list includes Argos, Dominos, Just Eat and a fair few more.
In order to set up your Apple Pay, you’ll need to be a member of one of a supported bank, including HSBC, Santander, Natwest, Nationwide, First Direction and a few others – basically all of the largest ones except for Barclays, which is doing its own thing.
You’ll also need an iPhone with an NFC chip, which includes just the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The Apple Watch can also make Apple Pay payments, even if it’s paired with an iPhone 5, 5S or 5C. The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will also support Apple Pay when they launch later this year.
Apple Pay will be restricted to payments of £20 or less until September, when the limit will be raised to £30. In the future, this limit should be raised or eliminated entirely by UK lawmakers as contactless payments continue to grow in popularity, but no further limit increases have yet been set.
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