- 7 hours ago (Updated 1 hour ago)
- iOS
- Julian Russo
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If you follow Apple news closely, you probably saw a few months ago that Mobeewave was acquired by Apple for $100 million. Revolutionary Technology developed by this company is capable of transforming any smartphone into an electronic payment terminal.
Support for payments via the NFC chip from iOS 15.4?
Today, every Apple customer who is at a compatible banking institution can pay with Apple Pay by bringing his iPhone near a TPE in the store. With a simple “BEEP”, you realize a transaction without taking the credit card out of your pocket.
If this is basic and normal for millions of people, things will soon go furtherApple engineers have been working for more than 2 years to provide a credit card payment receipt system.
Indeed, Apple wants your iPhone to be able to behave like a TPE, you enter a sum on a dedicated application and a third person approaches his bank card to make a contactless payment. Do you have a friend who owes you €50, but he never has time to go to the ATM to withdraw the money? Ask him to take out his bank card and approach him your iPhone to pay you!
According to a Bloomberg report, thanks to the acquisition of Mobeewave 18 months ago, Apple made a considerable leap in the development of this technology on the iPhone.
According to the media, it is possible that this functionality will arrive in iOS 15.4 which will be available in the coming months, Apple would not like to wait for iOS 16 at the start of the 2022 school year to offer this innovation.
It’s unclear if the option to accept payments is marked as part of Apple Pay, although the team working on the feature has been working within Apple’s payments division since it was first released. transferred from Mobeewave. It’s also unclear whether Apple intends to partner with an existing payment network for the feature or launch it on its own.
Apple could start rolling out the feature via software update in the coming months. The company is expected to release the first beta version of iOS 15.4 in the near future, which should see a final version for consumers as early as spring. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
We could know more (maybe) during the announcements of iPhone SE 3 and of iPad Air 5G which should take place in the month of March 2022.
If the Receive Payments feature is coming with iOS 15.4, that means Apple is tweaking the final details before a launch on all compatible iPhones (those with the integrated NFC chip). Good news for customers, but bad news for services like Square, Sumup or even Zettle, which offer payment from the iPhone or iPad. And one more step towards the end of cash…