Finally Apple Pay officially arrives in Spain and it does so from the hand of one of the important Banks in this country, Santander Bank. The CEO of the Cupertino company has already announced on several occasions that the arrival of this service in Spain would take place this year 2016 and this has been the case.
Tomorrow, December 1, this payment service will be available through Apple devices including Mac. If you have to remember that since the arrival of macOS Sierra on September 20, Apple added Apple Pay in Safari for MacBooks and iMacs. It works in the same way as with the iPhone or the Apple Watch, but when you click on the Apple Pay button, the iPhone is activated and asks us to put the fingerprint to complete the transaction.
Co- applesphere They have been the first to echo this news since they have obtained first-hand information about the operation. If everything goes as expected, we can already say that tomorrow it will be possible to carry out payments using NFC-compatible devices which are the following:
- iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus
- Safari from any Mac (as long as it is a compatible website)
- Original Apple Watch, Series 1 and 2
In the case of the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s They can also make use of this payment method if users have an Apple Watch. So let's hope all this goes ahead tomorrow and we can finally make payments in Spain with the long-awaited Apple Pay. Remember that for payments over 20 euros it is necessary to use the Touch ID. As we have already said on numerous occasions, there is no safer method to make payments than through NFC.
But this news is missing a "little extra" and it is true that we are very happy with the arrival of Apple's payment service, Apple Pay to Spain, we expected to have more banks available or compatible with this payment method , but at the moment it seems that we will only have one and we will have to wait for more compatibility movements in the future. Now it's time to wait and this news is officially confirmed tomorrow.
At the beginning of last year we had news of a failure that Apple Pay gave with the cards and that you mentioned, well, now that it arrives in Spain I am having the same problem. I don't know if you have heard of more cases.