Apple’s Tap to Pay feature lets newer iPhones accept contactless payments
It's always a flower shop - Nilay Patel | Image: Apple Apple just announced plans to roll out Tap to Pay on iPhone, allowing businesses to use mobile devices as a payment terminal for contactless payments. A Bloomberg report from 2020 noted Apple's acquisition of a startup, Mobeewave, focused on building this technology, and a rumor from the same outlet in January revealed it was getting close to a rollout. Now, Apple has confirmed the feature, which will take payments from contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets."
What does this mean for Square and its dongles?
Tap to Pay on iPhone isn't ready for you to use today but the supporting API has arrived today in the iOS 15.4 beta 2, potentially enabling the feature on iPhone XS and later models. There are older iPhones...