#taptopay — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #taptopay, aggregated by home.social.
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Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone is now in Malaysia #americanexpress #apple #applemalaysia #appletaptopay #digitallife #iphone #iphonemalaysia #jcb #mastercard #mydebit #news #smartphones #taptopay #taptopayoniphone #tech #unionpay #visa
https://soyacincau.com/2026/04/22/apple-tap-to-pay-on-iphone-now-in-malaysia/
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Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone is now in Malaysia #americanexpress #apple #applemalaysia #appletaptopay #digitallife #iphone #iphonemalaysia #jcb #mastercard #mydebit #news #smartphones #taptopay #taptopayoniphone #tech #unionpay #visa
https://soyacincau.com/2026/04/22/apple-tap-to-pay-on-iphone-now-in-malaysia/
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Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone is now in Malaysia #americanexpress #apple #applemalaysia #appletaptopay #digitallife #iphone #iphonemalaysia #jcb #mastercard #mydebit #news #smartphones #taptopay #taptopayoniphone #tech #unionpay #visa
https://soyacincau.com/2026/04/22/apple-tap-to-pay-on-iphone-now-in-malaysia/
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Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone is now in Malaysia #americanexpress #apple #applemalaysia #appletaptopay #digitallife #iphone #iphonemalaysia #jcb #mastercard #mydebit #news #smartphones #taptopay #taptopayoniphone #tech #unionpay #visa
https://soyacincau.com/2026/04/22/apple-tap-to-pay-on-iphone-now-in-malaysia/
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Apple brings tap to pay on iPhone to Malaysia, letting merchants accept contactless payments without extra hardware
KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Apple has launched its Tap to Pay on iPhone feature in Malaysia, allowing…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #ApplePay #AU #Australia #iPhoneMalaysia #KualaLumpur #Near-FieldCommunication #Paymentplatforms #taptopay #Technology
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Apple brings tap to pay on iPhone to Malaysia, letting merchants accept contactless payments without extra hardware
KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Apple has launched its Tap to Pay on iPhone feature in Malaysia, allowing…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #ApplePay #AU #Australia #iPhoneMalaysia #KualaLumpur #Near-FieldCommunication #Paymentplatforms #taptopay #Technology
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/447718/ Apple brings tap to pay on iPhone to Malaysia, letting merchants accept contactless payments without extra hardware #ApplePay #Éire #IE #IPhoneMalaysia #Ireland #KUALALUMPUR #Mobile #NearFieldCommunication #PaymentPlatforms #TapToPay #Technology
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/910457/ Apple brings tap to pay on iPhone to Malaysia, letting merchants accept contactless payments without extra hardware #ApplePay #IPhoneMalaysia #KualaLumpur #Mobile #NearFieldCommunication #PaymentPlatforms #TapToPay #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
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GrabX 2026: Grab rolls out 13 new AI-powered features for rides, food and travel #apps #cashloan #cloudprinter #digitallife #ewallet #grab #grabaiassistant #grabcar #grabmaps #grabmore #grabpay #grabpayfortravel #grabstays #grabx #grabx2026 #groupride #news #taptopay
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GrabX 2026: Grab rolls out 13 new AI-powered features for rides, food and travel #apps #cashloan #cloudprinter #digitallife #ewallet #grab #grabaiassistant #grabcar #grabmaps #grabmore #grabpay #grabpayfortravel #grabstays #grabx #grabx2026 #groupride #news #taptopay
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GrabX 2026: Grab rolls out 13 new AI-powered features for rides, food and travel #apps #cashloan #cloudprinter #digitallife #ewallet #grab #grabaiassistant #grabcar #grabmaps #grabmore #grabpay #grabpayfortravel #grabstays #grabx #grabx2026 #groupride #news #taptopay
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GrabX 2026: Grab rolls out 13 new AI-powered features for rides, food and travel #apps #cashloan #cloudprinter #digitallife #ewallet #grab #grabaiassistant #grabcar #grabmaps #grabmore #grabpay #grabpayfortravel #grabstays #grabx #grabx2026 #groupride #news #taptopay
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https://www.alojapan.com/1468530/jcb-expands-japan-travel-perks-for-korean-tourists-with-cashback-and-transit-discounts/ JCB Expands Japan Travel Perks for Korean Tourists With Cashback and Transit Discounts #cashback #ContactlessPayment #DonQuijote #JapanTourism #JapanTravel #jcb #KoreanTourists #TapToPay #tourism #UniversalStudiosJapan #zipair A JCB Premium Service Press Day event held at Community House Masil in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 26th. Photo courtesy of JCB With approximately 9.5 million Koreans visiting Japan last year, JCB, Japan’s largest credit card
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https://www.alojapan.com/1468530/jcb-expands-japan-travel-perks-for-korean-tourists-with-cashback-and-transit-discounts/ JCB Expands Japan Travel Perks for Korean Tourists With Cashback and Transit Discounts #cashback #ContactlessPayment #DonQuijote #JapanTourism #JapanTravel #jcb #KoreanTourists #TapToPay #tourism #UniversalStudiosJapan #zipair A JCB Premium Service Press Day event held at Community House Masil in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 26th. Photo courtesy of JCB With approximately 9.5 million Koreans visiting Japan last year, JCB, Japan’s largest credit card
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https://www.europesays.com/afrique/54615/ M-Pesa lance le paiement mobile sans contact #AfriqueDeL'est #PaiementMobile #PaiementSansContact #Tanzanie #TapToPay
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Apple lancia Tap to Pay su iPhone in Messico, espandendo l'accettazione dei pagamenti contactless. La novità segue altri importanti annunci di Apple Business.
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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
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Tap to Pay: Puget Sound Region Transit Systems to Accept Credit and Debit Cards, Digital Wallets as Fare Payment
https://kingcountymetro.blog/2026/02/19/tap-to-pay-puget-sound-region-transit-systems-to-accept-credit-and-debit-cards-digital-wallets-as-fare-payment/
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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/
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Es wird Zeit, hier bei Mastodon mehr Infos und Ansichten zu Payment, Zahlungsverkehr, Kartenzahlungen, OnlineBanking und verwandten Themen auszutauschen.
Früher bei Twitter gab's einen regen Austausch und viele interessante Infos bekam ich dort zuerst.
Ich bin auf der Suche nach passenden Hashtags und Profilen und möchte Profile in mein Startpaket aufnehmen.
Welche Hashtags im Themenbereich nutzt Du?
Darf ich Dich mit in mein Startpaket aufnehmen? (Aktuell 4 Profile)
#bezahlen #mastodon #Payment #zahlungsverkehr #Kartenzahlungen #Kartenzahlung #onlinebanking #nocash #cashless #kontaktlos #applepay #TapToPay #twitter #cards #finance
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Die Klarna-App wird zum NFC-Terminal: Tap to Pay startet und greift Wallets an
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Apple erweitert Tap to Pay auf iPhone in Europa
Apple bringt die Funktion Tap to Pay auf dem iPhone in fünf weitere europäische Länder. Damit können Geschäftsinhaber:innen in Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Monaco und Norwegen mit ihren iPhones kontak
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/apple-erweitert-tap-to-pay-auf-iphone-in-europa/
#News #Services #Apple #Estland #Europa #iPhone #KontaktloseZahlung #Lettland #Litauen #Monaco #NFC #Norwegen #Paypal #SecureElement #Stripe #SumUp #TapToPay -
Cash App Debuts iPhone Tap to Pay for Business Sellers
Cash App says its business sellers now have a new way to accept contactless payments. The company on…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #Block #CashApp #contactlesspayments #fasterpayments #PYMNTSNews #taptopay #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #What'sHot
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Cash App Debuts iPhone Tap to Pay for Business Sellers
Cash App says its business sellers now have a new way to accept contactless payments. The company on…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #Block #CashApp #contactlesspayments #fasterpayments #PYMNTSNews #taptopay #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #What'sHot
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PayPal bringt Kontaklose Zahlung aufs Smartphone
PayPal bringt ab Sommer 2025 eine kontaktlose Bezahlfunktion in deutsche Geschäfte. Damit wird Deutschland weltweit der erste Markt für die neue mobile Wallet-Lösung von PayPal.Kontaktlos bezahlen per Smartpho
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/paypal-bringt-kontaklose-zahlung-aufs-smartphone/
#News #Services #Android #Cashback #DigitaleZahlmethoden #Einzelhandel #iOS #KontaktlosBezahlen #MobileWallet #Paypal #Ratenzahlung #TapToPay -
Apple ha esteso Tap to Pay su iPhone in Polonia, Bulgaria, Finlandia, Liechtenstein, Portogallo, Slovacchia, Slovenia, Svizzera e Ungheria. Ora, venditori e aziende possono usare l’iPhone come terminale di pagamento contactless. Le transazioni sono criptate e Apple non registra i dettagli degli acquisti. 📱💳🔒 #Apple #TapToPay #Pagamenti #Innovazione
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Apple erweitert Tap to Pay auf iPhone in neun weitere Länder
Apple hat die Reichweite von Tap to Pay auf iPhone deutlich erweitert. Ab sofort steht die kontaktlose Zahlungsfunktion in neun weiteren Ländern zur Verfügung. Da
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/apple-erweitert-tap-to-pay-auf-iphone-in-neun-weitere-laender/
#News #Services #AppleBusiness #AppleFintech #ApplePay #AppleWallet #DigitaleZahlungen #IPhoneHndler #IPhoneZahlungen #KontaktlosesBezahlen #MobilesBezahlen #TapToPay -
Glad to see that they are not doing away with cash payment. The QR code system has been a pain in the bottom.
CapMetro bringing tap-to-pay to Austin’s buses and trains by March - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor
#Austin #CapMetro #Bus #Transit #TapToPay #PublicTransport #Texas #FarePayment #CapitalMetro
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Glad to see that they are not doing away with cash payment. The QR code system has been a pain in the bottom.
CapMetro bringing tap-to-pay to Austin’s buses and trains by March - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor
#Austin #CapMetro #Bus #Transit #TapToPay #PublicTransport #Texas #FarePayment #CapitalMetro
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Glad to see that they are not doing away with cash payment. The QR code system has been a pain in the bottom.
CapMetro bringing tap-to-pay to Austin’s buses and trains by March - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor
#Austin #CapMetro #Bus #Transit #TapToPay #PublicTransport #Texas #FarePayment #CapitalMetro
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Glad to see that they are not doing away with cash payment. The QR code system has been a pain in the bottom.
CapMetro bringing tap-to-pay to Austin’s buses and trains by March - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor
#Austin #CapMetro #Bus #Transit #TapToPay #PublicTransport #Texas #FarePayment #CapitalMetro
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Glad to see that they are not doing away with cash payment. The QR code system has been a pain in the bottom.
CapMetro bringing tap-to-pay to Austin’s buses and trains by March - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor
#Austin #CapMetro #Bus #Transit #TapToPay #PublicTransport #Texas #FarePayment #CapitalMetro
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Apple ha lanciato Tap to Pay su iPhone in Nuova Zelanda, consentendo agli esercenti di accettare pagamenti contactless direttamente con un iPhone XS o successivo. I clienti possono pagare con carte contactless, Apple Pay e altri wallet digitali. #Apple #TapToPay #NuovaZelanda
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Tap and Pay crypto coming to Coinbase Wallet, L2 interoperability in months - Jesse Pollak, the creator of the Ethereum layer-2 network Base, expects ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/tap-to-pay-crypto-feature-coinbase-wallet-soon-says-jesse-pollak #interoperability #totalvaluelocked #jessepollak #arbitrumone #opmainnet #taptopay #cashapp #paypal #venmo
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Tap and Pay crypto coming to Coinbase Wallet, L2 interoperability in months - Jesse Pollak, the creator of the Ethereum layer-2 network Base, expects ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/tap-to-pay-crypto-feature-coinbase-wallet-soon-says-jesse-pollak #interoperability #totalvaluelocked #jessepollak #arbitrumone #opmainnet #taptopay #cashapp #paypal #venmo
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Tap and Pay crypto coming to Coinbase Wallet, L2 interoperability in months - Jesse Pollak, the creator of the Ethereum layer-2 network Base, expects ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/tap-to-pay-crypto-feature-coinbase-wallet-soon-says-jesse-pollak #interoperability #totalvaluelocked #jessepollak #arbitrumone #opmainnet #taptopay #cashapp #paypal #venmo
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Oggi Apple amplia Tap to Pay su iPhone in Austria, Repubblica Ceca, Irlanda, Romania e Svezia 📱💳. Le imprese possono accettare pagamenti contactless con iPhone XS o successivi. Nuovi partner: Adyen, SumUp, Viva e altri 🔄🌍 #Apple #TapToPay #iPhone #Pagamenti #Tecnologia #Europa
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Neuigkeiten bei Apple Business Connect
Apple erweitert sein Angebot für Unternehmen, sich im Ökosystem zu präsentieren. Apple Business Connect bietet ab sofort neue Funktionen und verbessert einige bereits vorhandene.Mit Apple Business
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/neuigkeiten-bei-apple-business-connect/
#News #Services #AppleApps #AppleBusinessConnect #AppleIPhone #AppleKarten #BrandedMail #BusinessCallerID #DigitalePrsenz #Kundenbindung #TapToPay #Unternehmensregistrierung -
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
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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.
#ACP #Barcelona #Catalunya #GooglePay #GoogleWallet #GPay #Lifeline #mobilePayments #MobileWorldCongress #MWC #NFCPayments #PewResearchCenter #Spain #tapToPay #TikTok
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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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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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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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The SeamChip payment system that was used in Craft Beer Helsinki at the time had a flaw. The cards in question were #MIFARE Ultralight EV1 48bytes, which had no real security. As it was used, it was possible to clone someone else’s card and use it to pay for your purchases. The system worked by associating the card to given account which you could then top up with "tokens". The purchase was still limited to the amount of tokens associated with the particular target account, and there was no option for using credit (buying alcohol on credit is highly regulated in Finland, and is basically only possible on credit with a credit card). Exploiting the flaw was also limited by the fact that you would need to find out the ID of the target card first, either requiring brute forcing or physically reading the victim’s card. Naturally abusing this flaw required that you had the knowledge and necessary tools to do so.
The SeamChip #RFID solution has since been discontinued, and has been replaced with regular payment methods. I’m definitely more confident in paying my beer with #taptopay
