Germany: the launch of Apple Pay is imminent

Apple has announced the details of the German launch of Apple Pay. These include participating banks and badociated payment cards, as well as the first resellers. In the United States, Apple Pay was introduced about four years ago.

Apple Pay does not work yet in Germany. Several attempts by Golem.de to include bank cards in the iOS wallet have failed so far.

Suppliers include Deutsche Bank, Hypo Vereinsbank, Hanseatic Bank, Fidor, Comdirect as well as O2 Banking and badociated cards from Visa, Mastercard, Maestro and American Express. In addition, there are N26, Bunq, Boon, Vimpay and Edenred suppliers.

You can pay first in the supermarket chains Aldi, Lidl, Netto, Real, DM and Kaufland, as well as at H & M and S. Oliver. If you want to pay your tank bill with Apple Pay, you can do it with Aral and Shell. In addition, Mediamarkt, Gravis and Saturn, McDonalds and Burgerking, as well as Starbucks and Tchibo must accept Apple games. Of course, customers can also buy from Apple with the payment system.

Apple said there were restrictions on NFC-enabled payment terminals, as they are now seen almost everywhere in the trade.

With Apple Pay, you can buy in Germany after the start, also in online stores. Among the first participants are Berlin's public transport systems BVG, Ryanair, Flixbus, Zalando and Foodora. This requires the Safari browser.

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