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Most of us choose a card for reasons that have nothing to do with how it performs: the colour, a headline cashback number, the word free. Or follow our friends' choice.
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Most of us choose a card for reasons that have nothing to do with how it performs: the colour, a headline cashback number, the word free. Or follow our friends' choice.
You're buying something online — concert tickets, a flight, a pair of trainers — and just as you tap Pay, the screen pauses. Your phone buzzes. A message asks you to confirm it's really you. That short pause is 3D Secure doing its job.
Your Apple Pay payment card is, in effect, a secured digital twin of the card in your pocket. Apple Pay is a mobile wallet built into your iPhone or Apple Watch. Instead of pulling out a card, you hold the device near a terminal and confirm with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode.
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