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posted by janrinok on Friday July 17 2015, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-some-will-still-try dept.

Transport for London (TfL) has warned tube, train and bus passengers paying with Apple Pay on iPhones and Apple Watches not to let their batteries run flat or they could get stuck at gates and face penalty fares.

TfL advises users that, as with other smartphone payment systems including EE's Cash on Tap, Apple Pay only works if a device has power. It warns that, if the battery runs out in the middle of a journey, a user will not be able to tap out, which means they could be charged a maximum fare.

"If an inspector asks you to touch your iPhone or Apple Watch on their reader, it will not be able to be read and you could be liable for a penalty fare," TfL says.

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  • (Score: 2) by MrNemesis on Friday July 17 2015, @02:00PM

    by MrNemesis (1582) on Friday July 17 2015, @02:00PM (#210427)

    Don't think there was anything in the EULA for the oyster card that says it has to be kept in your wallet; most people I know keep them in the little plastic mini-wallets you get with them or just loose. Alternatively keep them in your wallet and just don't take it out - they're RFID with a range of a few centimetres and so will work quite happily through fabric/leather.

    Never had my pocket picked, but I don't see why a phone would be any less of a tantalising target and in my experience much easier to fumble when you're bonking with it. A watch maybe, but I wear my watch on my left wrist and the oyster reader is positioned on the right. Would be easier to just tuck the oyster card into my cuff.

    Disclaimer: Living in London for the last 20 years which I guess means I've been using oyster cards for at least 12 of them. But I guess I'm a luddite in that I still only use a mostlydumbphone and never found the old paper tickets to be a problem...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by BasilBrush on Friday July 17 2015, @06:10PM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Friday July 17 2015, @06:10PM (#210528)

    Alternatively keep them in your wallet and just don't take it out - they're RFID with a range of a few centimetres and so will work quite happily through fabric/leather.

    My experience is that with the Oyster card in my wallet, actually touching the pad only works about 50% of the time.

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