October 17, 2024
UPDATE
Apple celebrates 10 years of Apple Pay
Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vp of Apple Pay and Apple Pockets, displays on a decade of Apple Pay enriching customers’ lives, and shares new methods to pay with Apple Pay, together with rewards and installments
After we began our journey with Apple Pay 10 years in the past, we noticed a singular alternative to leverage Apple’s {hardware} and software program to make a significant affect on the monetary well being and lives of our prospects. From the outset, we envisioned a world the place you can use your iPhone to seamlessly pay for every thing — from groceries to coach tickets, in particular person and on-line, throughout the globe — all whereas protecting your private and monetary data protected and personal.
Right this moment, Apple Pay is utilized by a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of shoppers in 78 markets, at checkout on hundreds of thousands of internet sites and apps, in tens of hundreds of thousands of shops worldwide, and is supported by greater than 11,000 financial institution and community companions. We hear from prospects each day about how a lot they love the convenience, safety, and privateness protections Apple Pay offers of their day by day lives, and the way a lot they take pleasure in utilizing it throughout their gadgets — together with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac.
One in all my earliest recollections of realizing how Apple Pay was positively impacting shoppers’ lives was after we rolled out Apple Pay for transit in Tokyo, which is utilized by hundreds of thousands of vacationers each day. I watched in awe as individuals shortly tapped their iPhone or Apple Watch to pay whereas passing by the turnstiles — no must fish out any money, playing cards, or cash from their wallets, and even unlock or wake their machine. It’s a fantastic instance of how Apple Pay’s seamless and safe buyer expertise delivers comfort and peace of thoughts to shoppers world wide, whether or not they’re commuting to work, buying on-line, or choosing up their morning espresso.
We all know how necessary it’s for purchasers to really feel safe and belief that their monetary transactions are non-public when making a fee. That’s why we’re at all times working to safeguard shoppers, whereas additionally enabling banks to have industry-low ranges of fraud for Apple Pay transactions. And it’s additionally why Apple Pay was designed to guard customers’ extremely delicate private and monetary data, like their card quantity, which isn’t shared with retailers. Our prospects belief that once they use Apple Pay wherever, they will have the peace of thoughts that their funds are protected.
Trying forward at what’s subsequent for Apple Pay, we’re excited to now carry our customers extra methods to pay, together with the choice to redeem rewards and entry installment loans from Apple Pay-enabled issuers and lenders proper at checkout with Apple Pay on-line and in-app on iPhone and iPad. This provides shoppers higher flexibility in how they pay with the straightforward and trusted Apple Pay expertise they already know and love. It additionally offers Apple Pay-enabled issuers and lenders with new methods to attach with their prospects, and make their rewards and installment choices much more accessible.
Past funds, we’re additionally advancing our broader imaginative and prescient of changing customers’ bodily wallets with a straightforward, safe, and personal digital pockets — Apple Pockets. Right this moment, customers can seamlessly and securely add and entry eligible occasion tickets, transit playing cards, keys, authorities IDs, and extra all from Apple Pockets. And we’re at all times on the lookout for new methods to make utilizing Apple Pockets handy whereas delivering unparalleled safety and peace of thoughts.
The final decade was an unbelievable journey, and we’re thrilled that so many individuals world wide are having fun with the expertise that Apple Pay and Apple Pockets present. I can’t wait to see what the subsequent 10 years have in retailer.
— Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vp of Apple Pay and Apple Pockets
Extra Methods to Pay with Apple Pay
With iOS 18, eligible customers can now entry installment mortgage choices from Affirm within the U.S. and from Monzo Flex within the U.Okay. when testing with Apple Pay on-line and in-app on iPhone and iPad.1 And beginning immediately, eligible customers within the U.S. and U.Okay. may even have the choice to entry Klarna’s versatile fee choices proper at checkout on-line and in-app with Apple Pay on iPhone and iPad.
Sooner or later, customers may even be capable to entry installment fee choices from eligible credit score or debit playing cards when making on-line purchases with Apple Pay within the U.S. with Citi, Synchrony, and throughout eligible, collaborating Apple Pay issuers with Fiserv; in Australia with ANZ; in Singapore with DBS; in Spain with CaixaBank; and within the U.Okay. with HSBC, NewDay, and Zilch, with extra issuers to comply with. Customers in Canada may even have entry to Klarna’s versatile fee choices at checkout with Apple Pay on-line and in-app on iPhone and iPad sooner or later.
Moreover, with iOS 18, Apple Pay customers within the U.S. can now redeem rewards with eligible Uncover bank cards2 once they try with Apple Pay on-line and in-app on iPhone and iPad. Sooner or later, customers may even be capable to redeem rewards for purchases with Apple Pay within the U.S. with Synchrony and throughout eligible, collaborating Apple Pay issuers with Fiserv and FIS, and in Singapore with DBS, with extra issuers to comply with.
Customers can now additionally entry Apple Pay on third-party net browsers and computer systems.3 At checkout, customers can be prompted to make use of their iPhone or iPad to scan a code, and can then be capable to securely full the fee with Apple Pay on iPhone or iPad. And with Faucet to Provision, it’s even simpler for customers so as to add a credit score or debit card to Apple Pockets by merely tapping their eligible card to the again of their iPhone.4
Subsequent yr, prospects within the U.S. may even be capable to see their PayPal stability when utilizing their PayPal debit card in Apple Pockets, giving them higher visibility and confidence when buying.
- This characteristic is obtainable by a card’s issuer, and is topic to issuer eligibility necessities and different issuer phrases. This characteristic shouldn’t be accessible in all markets, and is probably not accessible for every type of purchases, corresponding to subscriptions and recurring transactions. The total quantity of the transaction can be charged to the person’s card on the time of their buy, and an announcement credit score for the redeemed reward quantity can be utilized to the person’s account.
- Redemptions used with Uncover bank cards can be mirrored as an announcement credit score on a buyer’s account.
- iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later required. Accessible with collaborating retailers on appropriate browsers. Suitable browsers require WebSocket assist. This characteristic shouldn’t be accessible in all markets.
- Will need to have an eligible and supported card. Not accessible in all markets. To make use of this characteristic, a card’s NFC expertise have to be activated, and the person could must enter their card’s safety code throughout setup. Software program necessities apply. To make sure a person has all options of this product, their iPhone have to be up to date to the newest software program model.
Within the U.S., Apple Pay is a service offered by Apple Funds Companies LLC, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. In different nations and areas, Apple Pay is a service offered by sure Apple associates, as designated by the Apple Pay privateness discover. Neither Apple Inc., nor Apple Funds Companies LLC, nor its associates are a financial institution. Any card utilized in Apple Pay is obtainable by the cardboard issuer.
The survey was commissioned by Apple and performed by Morning Seek the advice of between September 10-13, 2024, amongst a pattern of three,014 adults within the U.S. ages 18-64.
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