The sender indication isn't all that reliable: just yesterday (and it's happened before, Wegman's)) I got a "Done" message on my iPhone Apple Pay screen and from the vendor's end: nada. The only payment that's real is when the vendor has success and that's, it seems, indicated by a nice sound from their terminal I've come to realize. No chime from the vendor terminal and it's rinse:repeat. Probably an indication the glitch occurred upstream from the interaction between the terminal and the iDevice: they communicated just fine but the pay source was hashed somehow.
Thanks.
I had a similar experience at Petco recently. First time: I got the audible+haptic confirmation and pulled back my phone, but the transition didn't complete. Second time: I held my Apple Watch in place longer -- until the register gave a 'ding' indicating success. (The cashier explained that this was the real indicator of success.) Then I pulled back the Apple Watch. I don't know if this was a coincidence, but from now on I'll keep the Watch over the POS a big longer.
BTW, yesterday I was able to use Apple Pay at a vending machine (YMCA) for the first time. That was pretty cool.
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The sender indication isn't all that reliable: just yesterday (and it's happened before, Wegman's)) I got a "Done" message on my iPhone Apple Pay screen and from the vendor's end: nada. The only payment that's real is when the vendor has success and that's, it seems, indicated by a nice sound from their terminal I've come to realize. No chime from the vendor terminal and it's rinse:repeat. Probably an indication the glitch occurred upstream from the interaction between the terminal and the iDevice: they communicated just fine but the pay source was hashed somehow.
Thanks.
I had a similar experience at Petco recently. First time: I got the audible+haptic confirmation and pulled back my phone, but the transition didn't complete. Second time: I held my Apple Watch in place longer -- until the register gave a 'ding' indicating success. (The cashier explained that this was the real indicator of success.) Then I pulled back the Apple Watch. I don't know if this was a coincidence, but from now on I'll keep the Watch over the POS a big longer.
BTW, yesterday I was able to use Apple Pay at a vending machine (YMCA) for the first time. That was pretty cool.