Apple Pay is landed in the United Kingdom in style, Apple is getting all the banks in this country to join. After HSBC and First Direct joined last month, customers of Halifax y Lloyds they can now use Apple Pay starting today. The service is still in process, so the cards do not activate immediately in some cases, but this will be fixed in a few hours.
This brings the total number of banks using Apple Pay and the list goes up to 11. The complete list is here:
- American Express
- FirstDirect
- HSBC
- Halifax
- Lloyds
- NatWest
- NationWide
- MBNA extension
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Santander
- Ulster
A Barclays It is resisting the most, and it is one of the banks that Apple is most interested in joining because of the large number of customers they have, but Barclays has commented that it is in the final stretch of being able to launch. On September 1, the limit for mobile payments was raised to £ 30, and can be used in even more situations.
This service has already been available to North American users since October and now in the United Kingdom, it allows pay in more than 250.000 stores around the whole country. Santander BankNetWest and Royal Bank of Scotland are the first to offer support for this form of payment while Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland account holders will have to wait until autumn.
Apple Pay works on the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, as well as the newly introduced iPhone 6S iPhone 6S Plus. Besides iPads that have integrated the touch ID can use Apple Pay.
