Say hello to Apple Pay, Austria!

Apple Pay is instantly available inwards Austria, its 36th market.

As previously hinted at past times Erste Bank und Sparkasse, Austria’s largest bank, in addition to confirmed past times The Standard newspaper, Austrian customers tin instantly purpose the mobile payment service to pay for purchases made inwards stores, apps in addition to on the spider web using their iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.

More information is available at apple.com/at/apple-pay.

To decease started, customers tin add together their supported credit or debit menu inwards the Wallet app on their iPhone. Erste-branded MasterCard cards are supported, every bit is the online depository fiscal establishment N26. Additional fiscal institutions volition selection upward back upward for Apple Pay subsequently inwards the year.

For availability information, check out Apple’s back upward document.

Apple Pay industrial plant amongst contactless NFC payment terminals in addition to protects your privacy past times withholding transaction information from merchants in addition to Apple itself. No credit menu or personally identifiable information related to your payments decease stored on your device.

Only a payment token is stored securely inwards the device’s Secure Element, a department of the top dog processor that’s walled off from the residual of the system. Apple Pay is currently available inwards most x EU markets 4 years after making its debut inwards the United States.

Its retail credence is instantly 70 per centum inwards the US in addition to fifty-fifty higher inwards other markets similar Canada, the U.K. in addition to Australia, where the organization has a 99 per centum acceptance. By the cease of this year, Apple Pay volition survive available inwards to a greater extent than than 40 countries worldwide.

A back upward document on Apple’s website provides a handy listing of countries in addition to regions where Apple Pay is currently accepted.

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