Apple Pay Later is reportedly facing ‘technical and engineering’ issues
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#641G4)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Pay Later is facing some significant" setbacks that could delay its launch until next year, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The feature is Apple's version of a buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, letting you make a payment through Apple Pay and then pay it back in four installments without interest.
Apple said its Pay Later feature would arrive with iOS 16 when it first announced the program at WWDC in June. But now that iOS 16 is out, Apple Pay Later hasn't made an appearance, and the fine print on Apple's iOS 16 page vaguely says it's coming in a future update." As Gurman points out, Apple Pay Later is the only unreleased iOS 16 feature on the page that doesn't include a timeframe for when we might expect its...