“Is iPhone restricted to Apple Pay? The floodgate opens… ‘NFC access for payments opened'”

Prioritized implementation in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan… Korea is still pending,

[Seoul=Newsis] Reporter Jung Byung-hyuk = An Apple Pay payment guide sticker is attached to a Starbucks counter in downtown Seoul on the 8th. Starbucks Korea will introduce Apple Pay services at all stores nationwide starting on the 9th. 2023.05.08.,
, ‘Apple opens the gates for using near-field communication (NFC)-based contactless payment services on iPhones.’,
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, ‘On the 14th (local time), Apple announced that it will provide external developers with APIs (application programming interfaces) to develop services such as payments utilizing the NFC feature on iPhones starting from iOS 18.1 version.’,
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, “Previously, Apple did not disclose APIs for third parties to access the NFC-based contactless payment service ‘Apple Pay’ on iPhones upon its launch. This was the reason why features like Samsung Pay and Google Pay’s NFC-based contactless payment could not be implemented on iPhones.”,
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, ‘Apple explained that through the new NFC feature API, external developers can implement services like contactless car, home, hotel keys, public transportation, employee ID cards, loyalty cards, and ticket services, in addition to contactless payments.’,
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, ‘The NFC feature API for iOS 18.1 will be provided first to developers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Apple stated that it plans to add more supported countries.’,
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, ‘The first version of iOS 18 is expected to be released next month. The industry expects that with the update to iOS 18.1, external developers’ NFC-based contactless payment services on iPhones will become possible around the fourth quarter of this year.’,
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, ‘However, Apple plans to charge fees for using the iPhone NFC feature and will only allow approved developers to access the feature.’,
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, “As the European Union (EU) demanded ‘free access’ as a condition in their antitrust investigation pressure on Apple to open NFC, it is expected that Apple and the EU will continue to be at odds for the time being. Apple has excluded EU countries as a whole from the list of countries where the NFC feature API will be open.” ‘article_split’,
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