As contactless card payments become increasingly popular Apple has now launched Apple Pay in the UK which lets iPhone 6 and Apple Watch owners pay for items costing up to £20 just by touching their gadgets onto a payment terminal, much like a contactless credit card.

So how does it work?

Apple Pay is effectively a digital wallet so it lets users add their credit and debit cards through Apple’s Passbook app and then use them in a similar manner to a contactless card.
The payments are secured and verified by the owner’s fingerprint using Apple’s Touch ID system.

Also unlike contactless cards, Apple Pay includes an extra security measure known as tokenisation, which ensures that the card details stored on your iphone are never passed onto the retailer. Instead, the retailer receives a one-use “token” allowing them to debit the payment only once.

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