Re: Pay Cash.....Have you set it up yet?
I use Apple Pay mostly at three shops - my local grocery store; a local drug store; and a local Whole Foods. All have the reader mounted high, to the right of where you stand when you interact with the cashier, mounted on a little counter.
My iPhone sticks out about 3" beyond my hand, the tap location being the top of the phone, as I hold it with my finger on Touch ID. I can do this easily one-handed. With the watch, it's two handed - I have to double-tap the button with my other hand - and then I have to raise my arm and supinate my wrist to point the watch toward the reader (I wear my watch on top of my wrist, not underneath.) My hand doesn't need to travel as far when I use my iPhone.
*Shrugs*. I just find that a lot more convenient and not awkward at all. I find using the watch a weird, awkward gesture.
But, sure, if you have a Series 0, Series 1, or Series 2 with an iPhone 5 or 5c without Touch ID, so no Apple Pay on the iPhone, then Apple Pay on the watch with watchOS 3 is awesome. I will Apple Pay over using a credit card every chance that I can get.
Another advantage is that my iPhone also stores all of my transaction in the wallet app. The one time I used the AW, the watch's wallet app doesn't have a list of transactions, and it did not sync to the iPhone wallet app. (Which makes sense maybe; they use different device account numbers.) I also didn't see it anywhere on the Watch app. I'll have to try again with something small just to see if the wallet app on the watch has changed with watch OS 4, or if it populates somewhere on the Watch app.
Sure, but it's still good for people to know that they may not have access to their cash unless they verify, that verification requires some personal information, and that this is the same info that you'd need to give to open any bank account (actually, less; only the last four of the SSN.)
In addition to the Tidbits article link above, here is Apple's support article about verification: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207887
I use Apple Pay mostly at three shops - my local grocery store; a local drug store; and a local Whole Foods. All have the reader mounted high, to the right of where you stand when you interact with the cashier, mounted on a little counter.
My iPhone sticks out about 3" beyond my hand, the tap location being the top of the phone, as I hold it with my finger on Touch ID. I can do this easily one-handed. With the watch, it's two handed - I have to double-tap the button with my other hand - and then I have to raise my arm and supinate my wrist to point the watch toward the reader (I wear my watch on top of my wrist, not underneath.) My hand doesn't need to travel as far when I use my iPhone.
*Shrugs*. I just find that a lot more convenient and not awkward at all. I find using the watch a weird, awkward gesture.
But, sure, if you have a Series 0, Series 1, or Series 2 with an iPhone 5 or 5c without Touch ID, so no Apple Pay on the iPhone, then Apple Pay on the watch with watchOS 3 is awesome. I will Apple Pay over using a credit card every chance that I can get.
Another advantage is that my iPhone also stores all of my transaction in the wallet app. The one time I used the AW, the watch's wallet app doesn't have a list of transactions, and it did not sync to the iPhone wallet app. (Which makes sense maybe; they use different device account numbers.) I also didn't see it anywhere on the Watch app. I'll have to try again with something small just to see if the wallet app on the watch has changed with watch OS 4, or if it populates somewhere on the Watch app.
Sure, but it's still good for people to know that they may not have access to their cash unless they verify, that verification requires some personal information, and that this is the same info that you'd need to give to open any bank account (actually, less; only the last four of the SSN.)
In addition to the Tidbits article link above, here is Apple's support article about verification: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207887
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