Re:Apple Card
by pwinnski on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:39PM
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That's one of the funny differences I've seen between UK and US. Contactless is ubiquitous in the UK, and less so in the US. But there is no £30 limit on contactless payments in the US. I've used tap-to-pay with Apple Pay to spend hundreds of dollars in a single purchase, no pin, no signature, no problem.
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A lot of people using contactless in the UK are using debit cards not credit cards which lack (here at least) the strong fraud protections that credit cards do - which is one of the reasons I put my new computer on my partners card then transferred the money to her bank to bank to settle it, so the £30 limit without pin acts as a brake on a stolen card giving the person who lost it time to report it as lost.
It used to be £15 but well inflation is a thing.
There is a list of possible restrictions (when the PIN is asked) which are different per countries.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207435
Re:Apple Card
by AdamGibbins on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:14PM
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These are different things. There's a £30 limit on Android/Apple payments, and contactless cards if the payment terminal only supports contactless. If they have a new enough terminal that also directly supports Apple/Android pay, there is no cap.