Use Apple Pay and Wallet
The first time you use your Apple Watch to pay for something feels almost like science fiction: You activate Apple Pay, move your wrist close to a payment terminal, and thenâ¦well, thatâs it. Youâre done. âFrictionlessâ is a perfect description. Itâs also extremely safe. Instead of handing a credit card number over to be stored in a merchantâs database, Apple Pay sends a token that matches up with the card you set up; even if the data were to be intercepted, itâs useless to an attacker.
The Wallet app, where your credit card data is stored, is also a convenient holding area for items that use barcodes for transactions, such as store loyalty cards and tickets for flights, movies, baseball games, and more. ...
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