#mobilepayments — Public Fediverse posts

تُطلق Venmo تحديثًا كبيرًا لتطبيقها، يركز بقوة على الخصوصية، مكافآت التسوق، وإدارة الأموال. يُغير التحديث إعدادات خصوصية المدفوعات للمستخدمين الجدد لتصبح "الأصدقاء" افتراضيًا بدلاً من "عام"، مع خيار "أنا فقط" لخصوصية تامة. كما يُضيف التحديث تصميمًا جديدًا للموجز بميزات تفاعلية وعروض استرداد نقدي مخصصة. وتخطط Venmo لإطلاق ميزات إضافية قريباً مثل تقسيم الفواتير، المدفوعات المجدولة، وتبويبات جديدة للأموال والمكافآت، ليكتمل الطرح بحلول الخريف.

#Venmo #MobilePayments #AppRedesign

Mobile Money Ghana announce 5hours planned downtime from 12am to 5am on Sunday 10 May
#Connected #Downtime #Mobilepayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo
https://gtechbooster.com/mobile-money-ghana-announce-5hours-planned-downtime-from-12am-to-5am-on-sunday-10-may/

From street vendors to global businesses, cashless payments are reshaping how money moves. With millions of transactions happening every second, digital wallets are driving financial inclusion and accessibility like never before.

👉 Learn more: https://go-infofinance.com/blog/rise-of-digital-wallets-and-cashless-payments

#DigitalEconomy #CashlessIndia #MobilePayments #FinanceTech #EWallet

NGate Malware Exploits HandyPay App to Steal Android NFC Payment Data

Malicious NGate malware has been discovered hiding inside a fake version of the HandyPay app, putting Android users' NFC payment data at risk. This sneaky malware exploits a trusted payments tool to steal sensitive information, leaving users vulnerable to financial theft.

https://osintsights.com/ngate-malware-exploits-handypay-app-to-steal-android-nfc-payment-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#NgateMalware #Android #NfcPaymentData #Handypay #MobilePayments

ICYMI: Google Pay API adds recurring, deferred and auto-reload transaction types: Google Pay API now supports recurring, deferred and automatic reload merchant-initiated transactions, with token lifecycle notifications for payment continuity. https://ppc.land/google-pay-api-adds-recurring-deferred-and-auto-reload-transaction-types/ #GooglePay #PaymentAPI #Fintech #MobilePayments #Ecommerce

Mobile Money agents angrily storm MTN office over blocked SIMs - alleging fraud-related account locks and frozen business funds
#NFiles #AfricanPayments #App #BoG #Ghana #GhanaNCA #Mobilepayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo
https://gtechbooster.com/mobile-money-agents-angrily-storm-mtn-office-over-blocked-sims-alleging-fraud-related-account-locks-and-frozen-business-funds/

MTN Ghana Spins Off MoMo Into a Standalone Fintech Company
#NFiles #Payments #AfricanPayments #Ghana #Mobilepayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo
https://gtechbooster.com/mtn-ghana-spins-off-momo-into-a-standalone-fintech-company/?fsp_sid=1181

https://www.europesays.com/africa/141745/ Vodacom, Paymentology launch tap-to-pay in Tanzania #AccessBank #AndroidTapToPay #LibertyGroup #MPesa #MamaMoney #massmart #MobileMoney #MobilePayments #MobileMoneyMarketAfrica #mukuru #Paymentology #payments #PickNPay #Safaricom #Santam #spar #StandardBank #Tanzania #TapToPay #Vodacom #VodacomTanzania

A mobile wallet is a smartphone app that stores payment credentials and enables transactions without physical cards or cash. It uses NFC or QR codes to process payments at terminals or online.

#Fintech #MobilePayments #DigitalWallet

A mobile wallet is a smartphone app that stores payment credentials and enables transactions without physical cards or cash. It uses NFC or QR codes to process payments at terminals or online.

#Fintech #MobilePayments #DigitalWallet

Japanese app PayPay announces US IPO and Visa partnership | PaymentsSource

Key insight: A Japanese payments app is seeking U.S. fintech investor capital through what is estimated to be a $2 billion IPO.Supporting data: Seventy-five percent of …
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AB-Technology #Banktechnology #fintech #IPOs #Japanese #Japanesenews #Mobilepayments #news #Payments #PSOcontent #technology
https://www.alojapan.com/1453392/japanese-app-paypay-announces-us-ipo-and-visa-partnership-paymentssource/

https://www.alojapan.com/1453392/japanese-app-paypay-announces-us-ipo-and-visa-partnership-paymentssource/ Japanese app PayPay announces US IPO and Visa partnership | PaymentsSource #ABTechnology #BankTechnology #fintech #IPOs #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MobilePayments #news #Payments #PSOContent #technology Key insight: A Japanese payments app is seeking U.S. fintech investor capital through what is estimated to be a $2 billion IPO.Supporting data: Seventy-five percent of Japan’s smartphone owners are registered PayPay users.Forwar

Alipay AI Pay processes 120 million transactions in one week as agentic commerce scales in China

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/alipay-ai-pay-agentic-commerce/

Consolidación de los pagos móviles en 2026. El 85% de la Gen Z adopta el smartphone como único medio transaccional. Implicaciones en banca retail. 🧠👾 🔗 https://www.glitchmental.com/2026/01/gen-z-85-porciento-pagos-moviles-telefono-2026.html #Fintech #MobilePayments #Economy #GlitchMentalMX

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/12/26/apple-opens-brazil-app-store-to-rivals-but-adds-new-fees-in-antitrust-settlement-xcxwbn/

Apple Opens Brazil App Store to Rivals but Adds New Fees in Antitrust Settlement

#Apple #Antitrust #AppStore #iOS #BigTech #Brazil #CADE #TechRegulation #MobilePayments #DeveloperFees #WalledGarden #iPhone

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/12/26/apple-opens-brazil-app-store-to-rivals-but-adds-new-fees-in-antitrust-settlement-xcxwbn/

Apple Opens Brazil App Store to Rivals but Adds New Fees in Antitrust Settlement

#Apple #Antitrust #AppStore #iOS #BigTech #Brazil #CADE #TechRegulation #MobilePayments #DeveloperFees #WalledGarden #iPhone

How to reactivate your Paystack account and avoid dormancy
#Payments #Dormancy #Mobilepayments #Paystack
https://gtechbooster.com/how-to-reactivate-your-paystack-account-and-avoid-dormancy/?fsp_sid=451

From mobile wallets and microfinance to blockchain-based transactions, these FinTech startups are making financial inclusion a reality across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Read: https://intellitrongenesis.com/2025/10/04/fintech-startups-redefining-banking-in-emerging-markets/

#FinTech #Blockchain #MobilePayments #Microfinance #OpenBanking #AI #BigData #Cybersecurity #IoT #5G #VR #AR #Metaverse #DataScience #SaaS #DevOps #Google #Apple #Amazon #Meta #Facebook #Tesla #IBM #Intel #NVIDIA #Oracle #Salesforce #Adobe #Twitter #X #Spotify #PayPal #Visa #Mastercard

Google Wallet Drops PayPal Integration for the US: What Users Lose on June 13

#Android #PayPal #GoogleWallet #BigTech #DigitalPayments #Fintech #MobilePayments #TechNews #USpayments #Google #AndroidPay #PaymentServices

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/03/google-wallet-drops-paypal-integration-for-the-us-what-users-lose-on-june-13-xcxwbn/

Google Wallet Drops PayPal Integration for the US: What Users Lose on June 13

#Android #PayPal #GoogleWallet #BigTech #DigitalPayments #Fintech #MobilePayments #TechNews #USpayments #Google #AndroidPay #PaymentServices

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/03/google-wallet-drops-paypal-integration-for-the-us-what-users-lose-on-june-13-xcxwbn/

Google is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users on June 13, 2025. Linked PayPal accounts will be removed, and new linking has already stopped. PayPal debit cards remain supported. #GoogleWallet #PayPal #FinTech #MobilePayments #DigitalWallet #TechNews

Google is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users on June 13, 2025. Linked PayPal accounts will be removed, and new linking has already stopped. PayPal debit cards remain supported. #GoogleWallet #PayPal #FinTech #MobilePayments #DigitalWallet #TechNews

KuCoin Enhances Point-of-Sale Mobile Payments With AEON - Crypto exchange KuCoin's merchant service is enhancing its provision for users to complet... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/05/20/kucoin-enhances-point-of-sale-mobile-payments-with-aeon #mobilepayments #payments #finance #kucoin #news

KuCoin Enhances Point-of-Sale Mobile Payments With AEON - Crypto exchange KuCoin's merchant service is enhancing its provision for users to complet... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/05/20/kucoin-enhances-point-of-sale-mobile-payments-with-aeon #mobilepayments #payments #finance #kucoin #news

🚨 Big move in India: The government removes the 100M user cap on WhatsApp Pay, allowing Meta to expand the mobile payments service to over 500M users! 💸📱 #WhatsAppPay #Meta #Fintech #IndiaTech #MobilePayments #DigitalPayments #TechNews #FintechNews #India500M

Big shift for Apple Pay: regulators to treat it like a bank. What does this mean for Apple and the future of mobile payments? 🍎💳 Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/21/apple-pay-to-be-treated-like-a-bank/

#ApplePay #Fintech #MobilePayments”

#ApplePay has officially launched in #Paraguay, providing users in the country with access to Apple’s mobile payment service. #MobilePayments
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/11/05/apple-pay-officially-launches-in-paraguay?utm_medium=rss

#Ropay officially launches the first national mobile instant payment service, revolutionizing the way we handle payments on the go! 🚀 #PayTech #MobilePayments https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/paytech/ropay-officially-launches-the-first-national-mobile-instant-payment-service/

LONDON

My packing list for this short trip to the U.K. did not include any plastic cards with embedded electronics, because London was one of the earlier cities in the world to grasp that you can persuade people to take transit if you will just shut up and take their money right before they board instead of first asking them to buy a reloadable transit fare card.

By “money” I mean the kind embedded in people’s credit cards, both those that include NFC contactless payments and those stored in such apps as Apple Pay, Google Wallet (formerly Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, formerly Google Wallet) and Samsung Pay.

Transport services in London have accepted tap-to-pay since 2012, so when I arrived here Monday I only had to hold my phone above the NFC terminal at a faregate for the Elizabeth Line to start paying my fare. Waving my phone over another faregate when I exited completed the transaction; the only hard part in between was not falling asleep on the train.

My previous business travel to a city with a subway connection to its international airport, my too-brief visit to Chicago a month ago, treated me to the same convenience–CTA has welcomed NFC payments since 2013.

But when I land at Dulles this afternoon and take Metro home, I’ll use a proprietary SmarTrip card that cost $2 to buy sometime years ago. WMATA does now support phone payments, but only via its own app–and as I’ve found out the hard way, you can’t move a SmarTrip card that still costs $2 even if bought right in the agency’s app to a new Android phone if your old Android phone dies.

Transit apps don’t have to incorporate that defect, but too many of them ship with other problems–chief among them, not letting the user select a payment method already saved in Apple Pay or Google Wallet.

Fortunately, WMATA’s can-do general manager Randy Clarke seems to have realized that Metro has created a payments problem for itself with this longstanding setup. At September’s WMATA board meeting, Clarke said he wants to see Metro support tap-to-pay by the time WorldPride Washington DC draws visitors to the D.C. area next May for the 50th anniversary of Pride celebrations here.

Making a subway or bus ride the same no-new-app, no-new-card experience as booking an Uber would be an enormously customer- and visitor-friendly move by Metro.

On that note, I’m obliged to disclose that I’m here courtesy of an Uber-paid press trip for Tuesday’s Go-Get Zero sustainability event here, which included generous Uber credits to get around the city. I’m further obliged to report that spending so much time sitting in London traffic in Ubers, even at no cost to me, was one of the better advertisements for transit that I’ve seen in a while.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/10/the-most-visitor-friendly-thing-a-citys-transit-system-can-do/

#ApplePay #ElizabethLine #GPay #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #LHR #LondonUnderground #mobilePayments #NFC #RandyClarke #SamsungPay #tapToPay #transit #Tube #Uber #UX

LONDON

My packing list for this short trip to the U.K. did not include any plastic cards with embedded electronics, because London was one of the earlier cities in the world to grasp that you can persuade people to take transit if you will just shut up and take their money right before they board instead of first asking them to buy a reloadable transit fare card.

By “money” I mean the kind embedded in people’s credit cards, both those that include NFC contactless payments and those stored in such apps as Apple Pay, Google Wallet (formerly Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, formerly Google Wallet) and Samsung Pay.

Transport services in London have accepted tap-to-pay since 2012, so when I arrived here Monday I only had to hold my phone above the NFC terminal at a faregate for the Elizabeth Line to start paying my fare. Waving my phone over another faregate when I exited completed the transaction; the only hard part in between was not falling asleep on the train.

My previous business travel to a city with a subway connection to its international airport, my too-brief visit to Chicago a month ago, treated me to the same convenience–CTA has welcomed NFC payments since 2013.

But when I land at Dulles this afternoon and take Metro home, I’ll use a proprietary SmarTrip card that cost $2 to buy sometime years ago. WMATA does now support phone payments, but only via its own app–and as I’ve found out the hard way, you can’t move a SmarTrip card that still costs $2 even if bought right in the agency’s app to a new Android phone if your old Android phone dies.

Transit apps don’t have to incorporate that defect, but too many of them ship with other problems–chief among them, not letting the user select a payment method already saved in Apple Pay or Google Wallet.

Fortunately, WMATA’s can-do general manager Randy Clarke seems to have realized that Metro has created a payments problem for itself with this longstanding setup. At September’s WMATA board meeting, Clarke said he wants to see Metro support tap-to-pay by the time WorldPride Washington DC draws visitors to the D.C. area next May for the 50th anniversary of Pride celebrations here.

Making a subway or bus ride the same no-new-app, no-new-card experience as booking an Uber would be an enormously customer- and visitor-friendly move by Metro.

On that note, I’m obliged to disclose that I’m here courtesy of an Uber-paid press trip for Tuesday’s Go-Get Zero sustainability event here, which included generous Uber credits to get around the city. I’m further obliged to report that spending so much time sitting in London traffic in Ubers, even at no cost to me, was one of the better advertisements for transit that I’ve seen in a while.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/10/the-most-visitor-friendly-thing-a-citys-transit-system-can-do/

#ApplePay #ElizabethLine #GPay #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #LHR #LondonUnderground #mobilePayments #NFC #RandyClarke #SamsungPay #tapToPay #transit #Tube #Uber #UX

»10 years later, #ApplePay is amazing — and about to change: #Apple made #mobilepayments easy and fast, as long as you did it Apple’s way. We’re about to see what happens when there are other ways.« https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24235874/apple-pay-10-years-open-nfc-ios?eicker.news #tech #media

»10 years later, #ApplePay is amazing — and about to change: #Apple made #mobilepayments easy and fast, as long as you did it Apple’s way. We’re about to see what happens when there are other ways.« https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24235874/apple-pay-10-years-open-nfc-ios?eicker.news #tech #media

Apple has agreed to open its mobile wallet technology to competitors in the EU to avoid hefty fines. This ten-year agreement allows other companies to use the technology for free, enhancing competition in the mobile payment market and providing consumers with more options. The move addresses the EU's concerns about Apple abusing its market dominance.
#Apple #EU #MobilePayments

https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2024/apple-opens-payments-tech-to-avoid-eu-fine/

Apple settles EU probe by opening up its mobile payments system - Enlarge (credit: Maskot | Maskot)

In two weeks, iPhone users i... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2036401 #nearfieldcommunication #europeancommission #paymentstechnology #digitalmarketsact #mobilepayments #onlinesecurity #europeanunion #mobilewallet #nfcpayment #touchandgo #applepay #policy #faceid #iphone #apple #nfc

Apple settles EU probe by opening up its mobile payments system - Enlarge (credit: Maskot | Maskot)

In two weeks, iPhone users i... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2036401 #nearfieldcommunication #europeancommission #paymentstechnology #digitalmarketsact #mobilepayments #onlinesecurity #europeanunion #mobilewallet #nfcpayment #touchandgo #applepay #policy #faceid #iphone #apple #nfc

Peru adopts India's UPI system to boost financial inclusion - The Indian instant payment system is gradually making its way around the... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/peru-upi-payment-system-financial-inclusion #financialinclusion #unbankedpopulation #interoperability #digitalpayments #mobilepayments #paymentsystem #peru #bcrp #nipl #upi

Peru adopts India's UPI system to boost financial inclusion - The Indian instant payment system is gradually making its way around the... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/peru-upi-payment-system-financial-inclusion #financialinclusion #unbankedpopulation #interoperability #digitalpayments #mobilepayments #paymentsystem #peru #bcrp #nipl #upi

Tether, TON team up with mobile app for USDT-to-fiat transactions - The Open Network users will be able to use Oobit’s Tap & Pay technol... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/streamlined-usdt-xaut-transactions-ton-oobit #cryptocurrencytransactions #blockchainintegration #fintechpartnerships #oobitmobileapp #mobilepayments #tap&pay #tonnetwork #tethergold #tether #usdt #xaut

Tether, TON team up with mobile app for USDT-to-fiat transactions - The Open Network users will be able to use Oobit’s Tap & Pay technol... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/streamlined-usdt-xaut-transactions-ton-oobit #cryptocurrencytransactions #blockchainintegration #fintechpartnerships #oobitmobileapp #mobilepayments #tap&pay #tonnetwork #tethergold #tether #usdt #xaut

Tether, TON team up with mobile app for USDT-to-fiat transactions - The Open Network users will be able to use Oobit’s Tap & Pay technol... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/streamlined-usdt-xaut-transactions-ton-oobit #cryptocurrencytransactions #blockchainintegration #fintechpartnerships #oobitmobileapp #mobilepayments #tap&pay #tonnetwork #tethergold #tether #usdt #xaut

Tether, TON team up with mobile app for USDT-to-fiat transactions - The Open Network users will be able to use Oobit’s Tap & Pay technol... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/streamlined-usdt-xaut-transactions-ton-oobit #cryptocurrencytransactions #blockchainintegration #fintechpartnerships #oobitmobileapp #mobilepayments #tap&pay #tonnetwork #tethergold #tether #usdt #xaut

MTN Ghana introduces Customer Transaction Limits and charges with effect from March 2024
https://gtechbooster.com/mtn-ghana-introduces-customer-transaction-limits-and-charges-with-effect-from-march-2024/
#News #BoG #Ghana #MobilePayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo #TarrifGuide

MTN Ghana introduces Customer Transaction Limits and charges with effect from March 2024
https://gtechbooster.com/mtn-ghana-introduces-customer-transaction-limits-and-charges-with-effect-from-march-2024/
#News #BoG #Ghana #MobilePayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo #TarrifGuide

MTN Ghana introduces Customer Transaction Limits and charges with effect from March 2024
https://gtechbooster.com/mtn-ghana-introduces-customer-transaction-limits-and-charges-with-effect-from-march-2024/
#News #BoG #Ghana #MobilePayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo #TarrifGuide

BARCELONA–Hola desde MWC! I’m here for my 10th time to cover the giant tech event formerly known as Mobile World Congress. I’m here through Thursday morning, which the past nine years of covering MWC have taught me will be barely enough time to take in the show and probably not enough time for Barcelona tourism.

Before I left, I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers sharing my notes on two potential alternatives to Intuit’s Mint: Quicken Simplifi and Monarch Money.

2/20/2024: A Lifeline for Low-Income Households Is Available After the ACP, AARP

I had been meaning to pitch my editor at AARP after catching up with her at CES, but she e-mailed me first to ask if I could bang out an explainer of the government broadband subsidy still taking applicants now that money is running out on the Affordable Connectivity Program. Since I’m writing this from Spain, I’ll also note that AARP published a Spanish version of my post (fortunately, without relying on my own Duolingo Spanish).

2/22/2024: Most TikTok Users, Even Younger Ones, Rarely Post Videos, PCMag

I got an advance look at yet another Pew Research Center study of social-media usage, and this one surfaced some surprising trends about TikTok use that I thought worth highlighting.

2/23/2024: Google Pay to Be Replaced by Google Wallet in Another Payment App Reorg, PCMag

I had to set aside packing for MWC Thursday when I saw that Google had once again reshuffled its mobile-payments app lineup. Writing this post took me down a memory lane lined by the wrecks of bad corporate judgment, and not just from Google–in retrospect, it remains dumbfounding that carriers thought they could sell their customers on a payment platform they controlled, and that they then named it “Isis” just in time for that word to become indelibly associated with a terrorist death cult.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/25/weekly-output-lifeline-explainer-tiktok-trends-google-kills-google-pay/

#ACP #Barcelona #Catalunya #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #GPay #Lifeline #mobilePayments #MobileWorldCongress #MWC #NFCPayments #PewResearchCenter #Spain #tapToPay #TikTok

BARCELONA–Hola desde MWC! I’m here for my 10th time to cover the giant tech event formerly known as Mobile World Congress. I’m here through Thursday morning, which the past nine years of covering MWC have taught me will be barely enough time to take in the show and probably not enough time for Barcelona tourism.

Before I left, I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers sharing my notes on two potential alternatives to Intuit’s Mint: Quicken Simplifi and Monarch Money.

2/20/2024: A Lifeline for Low-Income Households Is Available After the ACP, AARP

I had been meaning to pitch my editor at AARP after catching up with her at CES, but she e-mailed me first to ask if I could bang out an explainer of the government broadband subsidy still taking applicants now that money is running out on the Affordable Connectivity Program. Since I’m writing this from Spain, I’ll also note that AARP published a Spanish version of my post (fortunately, without relying on my own Duolingo Spanish).

2/22/2024: Most TikTok Users, Even Younger Ones, Rarely Post Videos, PCMag

I got an advance look at yet another Pew Research Center study of social-media usage, and this one surfaced some surprising trends about TikTok use that I thought worth highlighting.

2/23/2024: Google Pay to Be Replaced by Google Wallet in Another Payment App Reorg, PCMag

I had to set aside packing for MWC Thursday when I saw that Google had once again reshuffled its mobile-payments app lineup. Writing this post took me down a memory lane lined by the wrecks of bad corporate judgment, and not just from Google–in retrospect, it remains dumbfounding that carriers thought they could sell their customers on a payment platform they controlled, and that they then named it “Isis” just in time for that word to become indelibly associated with a terrorist death cult.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/25/weekly-output-lifeline-explainer-tiktok-trends-google-kills-google-pay/

#ACP #Barcelona #Catalunya #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #GPay #Lifeline #mobilePayments #MobileWorldCongress #MWC #NFCPayments #PewResearchCenter #Spain #tapToPay #TikTok

Three weekends ago, my phone did something weird when I tried using it to pay for a few farmers-market purchases: nothing. The Google Wallet app functioned like usual when I opened it and picked the credit card I use for everyday spending, but then tapping the phone to the NFC reader on a merchant’s credit-card terminal yielded no response.

Since all my cards have NFC built-in and since I had my wallet on me, I didn’t waste time trying to debug the problem and just fished out the physical card to complete the purchase. And then I spent a couple of weeks ignoring the problem while it failed to go away on its own.

Venting about this issue on a chat thread with other tech journalists surfaced a troubleshooting suggestion I should have thought to test on my own: see if other apps using the phone’s NFC radio work. I first remembered that I have one weird transit app that solely exists to top up Dublin’s stored-value Leap card, then was relieved to see the app detect the card I’d collected two summers ago when I tapped it to the back of the phone.

Likewise, Metro’s SmarTrip app responded to a tap of my own card. And then on Friday, the Epic Pass app on my phone (yes, I finally got that activated) functioned properly as a wireless, inside-a-ski-jacket lift ticket. So the NFC radio on this phone was clearly fine.

What else could it be? Google’s r/GooglePixel forum surfaced posts reporting similar problems, and one not only reassured me that I wasn’t uniquely snakebit but pointed to a specific remedy that I’ve since seen suggested elsewhere: deleting the cache of the system-level NFC Service app.

Following that required a deeper dive than usual into Android’s Settings app: Tap Apps, tap the “See all” link below the list of recently-opened apps, tap the vertical-ellipsis button at the top right and select “Show system,” then scroll down to select “Nfc Service” (yes, that abbreviation for “Near Field Communication” should be capitalized), then tap “Storage & cache,” then tap “Clear cache.”

“Trash cache” is an old tech-support trick that seems like it shouldn’t work anymore–shouldn’t apps be sufficiently self-aware to know when they’re ingesting corrupted temporary data?–and yet it seems to have worked in this case. Will the fix stick? I sure hope so, at least until the next time Google indulges in yet another mobile-payment-apps reorg.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/23/this-months-smartphone-snafu-wayward-google-wallet-behavior/

#EpicPass #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #GPay #LeapTopUp #mobilePayments #NFC #Reddit #SmarTrip #tapToPay

Three weekends ago, my phone did something weird when I tried using it to pay for a few farmers-market purchases: nothing. The Google Wallet app functioned like usual when I opened it and picked the credit card I use for everyday spending, but then tapping the phone to the NFC reader on a merchant’s credit-card terminal yielded no response.

Since all my cards have NFC built-in and since I had my wallet on me, I didn’t waste time trying to debug the problem and just fished out the physical card to complete the purchase. And then I spent a couple of weeks ignoring the problem while it failed to go away on its own.

Venting about this issue on a chat thread with other tech journalists surfaced a troubleshooting suggestion I should have thought to test on my own: see if other apps using the phone’s NFC radio work. I first remembered that I have one weird transit app that solely exists to top up Dublin’s stored-value Leap card, then was relieved to see the app detect the card I’d collected two summers ago when I tapped it to the back of the phone.

Likewise, Metro’s SmarTrip app responded to a tap of my own card. And then on Friday, the Epic Pass app on my phone (yes, I finally got that activated) functioned properly as a wireless, inside-a-ski-jacket lift ticket. So the NFC radio on this phone was clearly fine.

What else could it be? Google’s r/GooglePixel forum surfaced posts reporting similar problems, and one not only reassured me that I wasn’t uniquely snakebit but pointed to a specific remedy that I’ve since seen suggested elsewhere: deleting the cache of the system-level NFC Service app.

Following that required a deeper dive than usual into Android’s Settings app: Tap Apps, tap the “See all” link below the list of recently-opened apps, tap the vertical-ellipsis button at the top right and select “Show system,” then scroll down to select “Nfc Service” (yes, that abbreviation for “Near Field Communication” should be capitalized), then tap “Storage & cache,” then tap “Clear cache.”

“Trash cache” is an old tech-support trick that seems like it shouldn’t work anymore–shouldn’t apps be sufficiently self-aware to know when they’re ingesting corrupted temporary data?–and yet it seems to have worked in this case. Will the fix stick? I sure hope so, at least until the next time Google indulges in yet another mobile-payment-apps reorg.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/23/this-months-smartphone-snafu-wayward-google-wallet-behavior/

#EpicPass #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #GPay #LeapTopUp #mobilePayments #NFC #Reddit #SmarTrip #tapToPay

Three weekends ago, my phone did something weird when I tried using it to pay for a few farmers-market purchases: nothing. The Google Wallet app functioned like usual when I opened it and picked the credit card I use for everyday spending, but then tapping the phone to the NFC reader on a merchant’s credit-card terminal yielded no response.

Since all my cards have NFC built-in and since I had my wallet on me, I didn’t waste time trying to debug the problem and just fished out the physical card to complete the purchase. And then I spent a couple of weeks ignoring the problem while it failed to go away on its own.

Venting about this issue on a chat thread with other tech journalists surfaced a troubleshooting suggestion I should have thought to test on my own: see if other apps using the phone’s NFC radio work. I first remembered that I have one weird transit app that solely exists to top up Dublin’s stored-value Leap card, then was relieved to see the app detect the card I’d collected two summers ago when I tapped it to the back of the phone.

Likewise, Metro’s SmarTrip app responded to a tap of my own card. And then on Friday, the Epic Pass app on my phone (yes, I finally got that activated) functioned properly as a wireless, inside-a-ski-jacket lift ticket. So the NFC radio on this phone was clearly fine.

What else could it be? Google’s r/GooglePixel forum surfaced posts reporting similar problems, and one not only reassured me that I wasn’t uniquely snakebit but pointed to a specific remedy that I’ve since seen suggested elsewhere: deleting the cache of the system-level NFC Service app.

Following that required a deeper dive than usual into Android’s Settings app: Tap Apps, tap the “See all” link below the list of recently-opened apps, tap the vertical-ellipsis button at the top right and select “Show system,” then scroll down to select “Nfc Service” (yes, that abbreviation for “Near Field Communication” should be capitalized), then tap “Storage & cache,” then tap “Clear cache.”

“Trash cache” is an old tech-support trick that seems like it shouldn’t work anymore–shouldn’t apps be sufficiently self-aware to know when they’re ingesting corrupted temporary data?–and yet it seems to have worked in this case. Will the fix stick? I sure hope so, at least until the next time Google indulges in yet another mobile-payment-apps reorg.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/02/23/this-months-smartphone-snafu-wayward-google-wallet-behavior/

#EpicPass #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #GPay #LeapTopUp #mobilePayments #NFC #Reddit #SmarTrip #tapToPay

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