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Octopus confirms Apple Pay support for iPhone and Apple Watch later this year.

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  1. #11

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    **continues laughing in Samsung**

    Since having Octopus on my Samsung phone the sun seems brighter, colours more vibrant and tram drivers wish me well

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  2. #12

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    Not bad. They've finally done it; after I approached Octopus about developing an iPhone app for them back in 2011 (when NFC was being rolled out to iPhone) and got rejected.

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    Don't know if this is today or I missed something...

    but I was able to link my Octopus to Apple Wallet this morning.
    One less card in the wallet and I transferred my Octopus card to my watch.

    WARNING - Activating disables the physical card AND you cant have on both iPhone and Apple Watch at same time.
    You'll be forced to make a choice.

    But for me, this is one step forward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maybejames:
    but I was able to link my Octopus to Apple Wallet this morning.
    One less card in the wallet and I transferred my Octopus card to my watch.

    WARNING - Activating disables the physical card AND you cant have on both iPhone and Apple Watch at same time.
    You'll be forced to make a choice.

    But for me, this is one step forward.
    or keep your physical card and create a new card for the phone and a new card for the watch

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    Quote Originally Posted by aquaman:
    or keep your physical card and create a new card for the phone and a new card for the watch
    That is what I did with Smart Octopus on Samsung.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    That is what I did with Smart Octopus on Samsung.
    Why is it called "smart" octopus btw.

    Does it have any additional feature compared to the "dumb" octopus card? e.g. tx categorisation (but you get that for every octopus from the app), notifications...
    ...anyone know?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexdown:
    Why is it called "smart" octopus btw.

    Does it have any additional feature compared to the "dumb" octopus card? e.g. tx categorisation (but you get that for every octopus from the app), notifications...
    ...anyone know?
    Its smart because Octopus says so.

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    Does Apple take a cut if I link my credit card to Apple Pay and use it for purchases?

    Or are they just after my data ?


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    I've been using Smart Octopus on Samsung since launch.
    As others have suggested, I also created a new Octopus for the phone, i.e. retained the old physical one too (always handy to have a spare)

    I have AAVS on the "Smart" one but not on the physical one.

    The phone one works the same as the physical, e.g. I can use it for building entry as well as the regular payment stuff.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Morrison:
    Does Apple take a cut if I link my credit card to Apple Pay and use it for purchases?

    Or are they just after my data ?
    The issuer pay visa/MasterCard for each token (your Apple pay card is not actually the card, but a new token issued for the same account). Apple itself takes a cut of the interchange.