A few weeks ago it was discovered that Apple was working on a feature that would allow the iPhone to become a TVP or point of sale terminal. It was thought that it would be announced within a few months. However, those from Cupertino have decided to go ahead and have already officially revealed their name: Tap to Pay. With its announcement, it was also detailed when the iPhone can be used as a dataphone and some features of this function. You want to know more? Well, we’ll tell you right away.
Your iPhone can now be used as a dataphone
Through its official website, Apple has announced Tap to Pay, the feature that will allow entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses to use the brand’s mobile phones to receive payments using the “contactless” technology offered by the NFC chip. Thus, it will be possible to bring a debit card, credit, smartphones and smartwatches with NFC to the iPhone to accept a payment as do the dataphones . However, it is important to mention that this feature will come to the iPhone XS and later , so it will not be available on all Apple mobiles with NFC.
Additionally, Tap to Pay will arrive with an iOS update as a new integrated mobile feature. This means that no third – party hardware or accessories will be required to turn iPhone into a TVP . In addition, Apple guarantees that Tap to Pay will protect the data of buyers thanks to the encryption of transactions that they also use in their Apple Pay service. And while more cards will likely be added, the ones that will initially support Tap to Pay are those from American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa.
When will Tap to Pay feature come to iPhone?
Like the vast majority of new features released by Apple, Tap to Pay will begin arriving exclusively in the United States later this year . And for the time being, this feature will debut on two eCommerce platforms: Shopify and Stripe. This is how Tap to Pay will not be an Apple service, but rather an SDK so that platforms such as those mentioned above can use this function in their applications. And you… Would you like to use your iPhone as a dataphone?
