{"id":141687,"date":"2022-02-08T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=141687"},"modified":"2022-02-08T20:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:43:39","slug":"apple-announces-tap-to-pay-a-feature-that-turns-iphone-into-a-payment-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/apple-announces-tap-to-pay-a-feature-that-turns-iphone-into-a-payment-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple announces Tap to Pay, a feature that turns iPhone into a payment terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has introduced the Tap to Pay feature for iPhone.\u00a0It allows you to use your smartphone as a payment terminal.\u00a0Simply put, millions of merchants now have the ability to accept payments using their iPhone without the need for any other special hardware.\u00a0All you need to do is bring a contactless bank card or other smartphone with NFC to it.<\/p>\n<p>Tap to Pay on iPhone will be available to payment services and app developers for integration into their iOS software products.\u00a0Stripe will be the first platform to offer its customers Tap to Pay on iPhone.\u00a0Later this year, other payment services and applications will receive support for the new feature.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBy partnering with payment platforms, services and app developers, we are making it easier than ever for businesses large and small (from sole proprietors to large retailers) to seamlessly accept contactless payments and continue to grow their businesses,\u201d Apple said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To run Tap to Pay, you must have an iPhone XS or a later Apple smartphone. Once set up, merchants will be able to offer customers to pay for a product or service by attaching a contactless American Express, Discover, Mastercard or Visa card, as well as a smartphone or watch with Apple Pay. You can accept payments from anywhere in the world. They are protected by Secure Element encryption, so the company itself will not have information about transactions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY.jpg\" alt=\"APPLE ANNOUNCES TAP TO PAY\" width=\"1306\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY.jpg 1306w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-1080x719.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-637x424.jpg 637w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-1022x681.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/APPLE-ANNOUNCES-TAP-TO-PAY-1267x844.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1306px) 100vw, 1306px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APPLE ANNOUNCES TAP TO PAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tap to Pay on iPhone will be available to app developers and payment platforms in an upcoming iOS beta. The service itself will work first in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has introduced the Tap to Pay feature for iPhone.\u00a0It allows you to use your smartphone as a payment terminal.\u00a0Simply put, millions of merchants now have the ability to accept payments using their iPhone without the need for any other special hardware.\u00a0All you need to do is bring a contactless bank card or other smartphone [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/apple-announces-tap-to-pay-a-feature-that-turns-iphone-into-a-payment-terminal\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":141689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-141687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}