“Ahead of the launch of the iPhone X, people wondered how Apple Pay would work without a Touch ID Home button for confirming payments, but as it turns out, the payments service isn’t too much different,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “We went through the checkout process with Apple Pay to give MacRumors readers who haven’t yet had a chance to use the system a look at just how it works.”
“When you’re at a store that accepts Apple Pay,” Clover reports, “the Apple Pay process is more or less the same as it was with Touch ID, but some of the gestures are different.”
“When you’re ready to check out, press the side button on the iPhone X twice to bring up the default Apple Pay card and authenticate with Face ID,” Clover reports. “Then hold your iPhone X down to the reader to confirm payment.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Seems pretty simple, but since we have Apple Watches (double-press side button and hold to reader), we’ve never even thought to try Apple Pay with our iPhone X units yet!
In fact, we can’t remember the last time we used an iPhone for Apple Pay.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
It is too easy!
So true. Would love to use it.
What a pity Apple Pay isn’t yet available in my country while a horrible security danger like Google Pay is 🙁
Security expert Daniel Meissler pointed out the reason you need to push the side button for Apple Pay with Face ID:
“Basically, you don’t want to have someone walk up and swipe a reader under your phone while you’re browsing on it (which means it’s FaceID unlocked), and authorizing a purchase without any interaction.”
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/quick-thoughts-iphone-x/?utm_source=Unsupervised+Learning+Subscribers&utm_campaign=0aad8b877e-October+22%2C+2017+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49fdb7d723-0aad8b877e-448653345&mc_cid=0aad8b877e&mc_eid=5c8bdc1658
I’m glad they thought of that… you could immediately contest the charge, of course, but CC issuers have been real dicks about contested charges with a (supposedly) correct PIN, accusing people of collaborating with the criminal party… you can be sure they’ll be even more confident in blocking contested charges that passed a biometric scan.
Got it set up in Wallet on iPhone X just in case. Easy enough. But, like MDN, Apple Watch procedure is the same as before. Couldn’t be easier — or more secure. Love it.
It is not as easy as Touch ID. With that, you do nothing but hold your phone up to the reader with your thumb on the home button. No clicking.
Don’t get me wrong…Face ID is super easy too, just another step of the double clicking. Those that are used to doing it with the watch won’t notice a difference.
Yeah, most of the time, Touch ID with Apple Pay worked, but sometimes the wallet would not come up when it should. I’d have to double click the home button, hoping it would, etc. at times. With Face ID, just double clicking the side button brings up the wallet and authentication every time on command. I think I like the new approach better.