Apple Pay

Device compatibility The service is compatible with iPhone 6 and newer, iPad Air 2 and newer, Macs with Touch ID, and Apple Watch Series 1 and later. In iOS 17 or later, the number of cards able to be added to the service is determined by the capacity of the secure element, which varies by device. Technology Apple Pay uses the EMV Payment Tokenization Specification. The service keeps customer payment information private from the retailer by replacing the customer's credit or debit card Funding Primary Account Number (FPAN) with a tokenized Device Primary Account Number (DPAN), and creates a "dynamic security code [...] generated for each transaction". or passcode, The settlement time depends on the payment method chosen by the customer. (An exception being payments made using a card which stores the user's balance on the card itself, such as a Japanese Suica card or a Hong Kong Octopus card. These cards can transfer funds directly to the merchant without the need for an online connection.) In the United Kingdom, traditional contactless payments using bank cards are limited to £100 by issuing banks (previously £45 until October 14, 2021) as no cardholder authentication is provided as part of the transaction. Payments using Apple Pay, however, support payments of any amount owing to the increased security and lower risk of fraud in Apple Pay transactions (although some issuing banks may impose their own transaction limits, and not all contactless readers support this functionality – see CDCVM below). Similar transaction limits apply in other countries. Apple assumes some liability for fraudulent use of the service. In Russia, Apple receives 0.05% for debit cards and 0.12% for credit cards of each purchase, and in addition the bank pays 45 rubles a year for each card added in the service. Apple is ending its in-house "buy now, pay later" service in the US, shifting to third-party lenders for instalment plans. Existing users can still manage payments via the Wallet app. Apple will partner with banks such as Citi, HSBC, and ANZ to offer these options in the upcoming iOS 18. Consumer Device Cardholder Verification Method (CDCVM) In EMV-mode transactions, Apple Pay supports the use of the Consumer Device Cardholder Verification Method (CDCVM) using Touch ID, Face ID, or the phone's or watch's passcode. The use of CDCVM allows for the device itself to provide verification for the transaction and may not require the cardholder to sign a receipt or enter their PIN. Additionally, in certain markets which have a 'no verification contactless limit' using contactless cards (such as the £100 limit in the United Kingdom, the C$100 limit in Canada and the 300SAR limit in Saudi Arabia), the use of CDCVM can enable merchants to accept transactions higher than these amounts using Apple Pay, providing their terminal software is updated to support the latest network contactless specifications. Global acceptance About two-thirds of merchants (by some definition, as of 2019) accept contactless payments. Due to provisioning differences between countries (and even between issuers), users may encounter acceptance issues when travelling to a different country. Some known examples include: • Canada, UK, Saudi Arabia, and possibly other non-US-issued Visa cards only support EMV-mode transactions and not legacy magnetic-stripe data-emulation transactions. Some contactless terminals in the US do not support EMV-mode contactless transactions (even if they support EMV contact transactions), and therefore these visitors to the US will receive a "Could Not Complete Payment" error on the iPhone screen and an error on the terminal when attempting to use Apple Pay. Apple Cash Apple Cash, formerly Apple Pay Cash, is a feature that allows the transfer of money from one user to another via iMessage. When a user receives a payment, the funds are deposited in the recipient's Apple Cash card, where it is available for immediate use at merchants that accept Apple Pay. Prior to April 2022, the Apple Cash Card was provisioned as a Discover contactless debit card. Apple Cash device account numbers currently are issued/reissued on the Visa payment network, ensuring a larger acceptance for the Apple Cash card at more merchants. Alternatively, the user can choose to transfer the balance to a nominated bank account via ACH transfer. Since 2017, Apple Cash has been operated by Green Dot Corporation under the name "Green Dot Bank" and is available only for U.S. citizens or residents, 18 or older, with a physical residential address in the United States or Puerto Rico. == Cost ==