Some customers can now use Apple Pay for their App Store, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Books and iCloud purchases
Users in eight countries are now able to set up Apple Pay as their payment method for purchases tied to their Apple ID.
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Apple Pay is coming soon to 13 European countries, including Croatia, Slovenia & Bulgaria
Apple Pay will soon be available to Monese cardholders in more than a dozen countries in Eastern Europe, including Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania.
New Apple Pay features coming soon: NFC tags that trigger purchases when tapped, loyalty cards in the Wallet app & more
Soon your iPhone will be able to read specially-encoded NFC tags that will instantly start an Apple Pay transaction when tapped, without having to download or use any special app.
Apple Pay is likely to launch in Hungary and Luxembourg next
Apple’s mobile payments service should soon hit Hungary and Luxembourg after arriving in Iceland earlier in May.
Apple Pay arrives in Iceland
The unexpected launch of Apple Pay in the 340,000 people Nordic nation came earlier today with initial support from the country’s two major financial institutions. The iPhone maker’s self-imposed goal calls for bringing Apple Pay to forty countries before year-end
Some British government services now accept Apple Pay to approve online transactions
Payments for the British Government’s Global Entry Service can now be approved through Apple Pay, with support for additional services to be rolled out at a later stage.
Say hello to Apple Pay, Austria!
Apple Pay is now available to customers in Austria, its 36th market. Erste-branded MasterCard cards are supported at launch, as is the online bank N26.
Apple Pay will launch very soon in at least seven European countries
Apple Pay is currently available in 33 countries but it looks like the iPhone maker might soon meet its self-imposed goal of having it available in forty countries worldwide in 2019 because the mobile payments service appears to be launching soon in a bunch of European countries.
The Apple Card activation process is like pairing your AirPods
Apple has designed a brand new way to let users unlock their Apple Card that’s remarkably similar to pairing your AirPods.
Apple Pay Cash has been renamed to Apple Cash
Apple’s tweaked the official brand name of its Apple Pay Cash feature that launched in December 2017. Henceforth, the peer-to-peer payments service shall be known as Apple Cash.
Apple Pay Cash no longer supports sending money using a credit card other than Apple Card
Apple has disallowd person-to-person credit card payments other than with the new Apple Care, effective immediately. Debit cards and free bank transfers continue to work.
Apple Pay is launching in Austria soon
Apple Pay will be rolling out to customers in Austria soon, according to the country’s largest bank. The Cupertino firm is working to expand global availability of its own mobile payments solution to 40 markets around the world in 2019.