@rlx01 wrote:
@lg8302ch: new iPhones will be available in a couple of months so I'd hold off.
Highly recommend the Apple Watch just for Apple Pay/NFC.
Hi tmiw. FT and MF worlds colliding.
oh...too late but you know in Europe we will not get the lastest edition iPhone 6 Plus until the providers have use their stock....but 339$ for the 6 Plus 64GB was quite a nice offer so I took it... Yesterday I did set up Apple Pay and the first struggle was that the country and region settings had to be set to US or it did not show Apple Pay 
..thanks to Apple support Germany that was trying very hard to find out where this feature was hiding. It was a big challenge to them as well. Second I found it very interesting how each lender has their own way of authentication. A real challenge was Barclays with their phone verification and a ton of questions I really had a hard time to answer these questions...lol... well the cards I intend to use are now ready to use and today I tried to pay at a kiosk in Switzerland...hmm... the contactless terminal did open up Apple Pay and showed my default card but when I put my thumb on the home button it activated speech function instead... I guess I will need to google first on how to proceed afterwards or try when there is nobody waiting behind. ... hope it was just because I touched it too hard..lol... The cashier was of course very suspicious of my payment attempt as nobody here can pay like this. They all use their credit cards at the terminals and not their phones (Apple Pay is only available in the US so far)... so off I go tomorrow with the next attempt and hopefully will be successfull. Watched a Youtube video afterwards and it looks the way I tried to pay . ..so not sure what I did wrong that it did not work for me.
@Anonymous wrote:
@Vulcan1600 wrote:
I use Google Wallet, which is NFC also. I love it and the cashiers say that the Apple users never have any luck quilt mine is flawless. I can confidence that using the AMEX Blue card does give me the correct rewards.Does this mean Google finally fixed the issue with AmEx? I heard that rewards got messed up with Google Wallet and AmEx before.
Nope! Works great and got the 5% off from groceries too.
@Vulcan1600 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Vulcan1600 wrote:
I use Google Wallet, which is NFC also. I love it and the cashiers say that the Apple users never have any luck quilt mine is flawless. I can confidence that using the AMEX Blue card does give me the correct rewards.Does this mean Google finally fixed the issue with AmEx? I heard that rewards got messed up with Google Wallet and AmEx before.
Nope! Works great and got the 5% off from groceries too.
I don't think AmEx recognized that as bonus spend ("Internet Services" at the bottom). Is there a way to see how much exactly you got for cash back?
@lg8302ch wrote:
@MstrPTato wrote:Rest your finger on the button - do not push it in.
..and that is it? ... will try it out tomorrow - thanks
MstrPalTato.. you are my hero! I simply was not used to not really press the home button as on my old phone I only touched that button and had to press it as it had no other purpose..lol.. Kind of automatically did it with the iPhone 6 Plus as well. 
Today I used Apple Pay with two merchants in Switzerland for the very first time and both times it got the merchants attention..."what are you doing? you cannot pay with a phone " In disbelieve the sales staff gathered around the terminal and were convinced nothing would happen.....what a shock to them when the payment worked...ha ha.. It was quite an interesting thing as Apple Pay does not yet exist outside the US and in Switzerland they have never heard of it as it is not even visible in the iPhone menue options unless you change your country and region to USA. Because all the Swiss credit cards are set for contactless payments automatically the terminals are pretty much all equipped with the option. So they are very familiar that the actual credit card has to be placed on the contactless terminal but have never seen someone paying with a phone. I love Apple Pay and will only use it like that because it finally gets rid of the annoying signature and wait for a double paper slip to print (merchant copy and customer copy) . I hate to sign paperslips and now it even is faster than chip and pin 
I am a very big fan of the Apple Pay function and the best feature of my new phone
@lg8302ch wrote:
@lg8302ch wrote:
@MstrPTato wrote:Rest your finger on the button - do not push it in.
..and that is it? ... will try it out tomorrow - thanks
MstrPalTato.. you are my hero! I simply was not used to not really press the home button as on my old phone I only touched that button and had to press it as it had no other purpose..lol.. Kind of automatically did it with the iPhone 6 Plus as well.
Today I used Apple Pay with two merchants in Switzerland for the very first time and both times it got the merchants attention..."what are you doing? you cannot pay with a phone " In disbelieve the sales staff gathered around the terminal and were convinced nothing would happen.....what a shock to them when the payment worked...ha ha.. It was quite an interesting thing as Apple Pay does not yet exist outside the US and in Switzerland they have never heard of it as it is not even visible in the iPhone menue options unless you change your country and region to USA. Because all the Swiss credit cards are set for contactless payments automatically the terminals are pretty much all equipped with the option. So they are very familiar that the actual credit card has to be placed on the contactless terminal but have never seen someone paying with a phone. I love Apple Pay and will only use it like that because it finally gets rid of the annoying signature and wait for a double paper slip to print (merchant copy and customer copy) . I hate to sign paperslips and now it even is faster than chip and pin
Glad it worked out!!