Despite having numerous ups and downs in terms of the emergence of the Apple Pay service like having the official website taken down moments before launch, several sources have confirmed that the long-awaited feature is now accessible for fellow Malaysians.
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For the people that don’t have the slightest idea, Apple Pay works mostly the same as Samsung Pay where it’s a secured platform that helps you organize and keep the details of your digital payment options, mostly credit and debit cards, just to name a few.
By saving the banking information of those cards into the service, Apple device owners will not need to present those physical cards during purchases. Instead, they can just launch the app via their iPhone or Apple Watch, place it near the paying terminal, and voila, you’re done.
The good thing about it is that cards are prone to be more exploitive, particularly credit cards as malicious actors could just go brrrrr and PayWave everything they want. But things like a smartphone or smartwatch are less likely to be stolen and require user authentication before they start engaging the payment process.
Not to mention it looks cool because you’re tech-savvy to use them like a boss.
Anyway, with the official website taken down as of now, we only managed to scrounge up some key details that you need. For example, the list of supported cards.
Visa Cards
- Maybank Visa Infinite Diamante Card
- Maybank Visa Infinite Card
- Maybank Manchester United Visa Infinite Card
- Maybank Islamic Ikhwan Visa Infinite Card-i
- Maybank Visa Signature Card
- Maybank FC Barcelona Visa Signature Card
- Maybank Shopee Visa Platinum Card
- Petronas Maybank Visa Platinum Card
- Maybank Islamic Petronas Ikhwan Visa Platinum Card-i
- Maybank 2 Visa Platinum Card
- Maybank Visa Platinum Card
- Maybank Manchester United Visa Card
- Maybank Manchester United Visa Limited Edition 2022 Credit Card
- Petronas Maybank Visa Gold Card
- Maybank 2 Visa Gold Card
- Maybank Visa Gold Card
- Maybank Visa Classic Card
- Maybank Visa Debit Card
- Maybank Manchester United Visa Debit Card
- Maybank Manchester United Visa Limited Edition 2022 Debit Card
- Maybank FC Barcelona Visa Debit Card
- Tokyo 2020 Maybank Visa LED Debit Card
- Maybank MAE Debit Card
- Maybank Visa Manchester United Prepaid Card
Mastercard Cards
- Maybank World Mastercard® Card
- Maybank Islamic World Mastercard® Ikhwan Card
- Maybank Grab Mastercard® Platinum Black Card
- Maybank Grab Mastercard® Platinum White Card
- Maybank 2 Mastercard® Platinum Card
- Maybank Mastercard® Platinum Card
- Maybank Islamic Mastercard® Ikhwan Platinum Card
- Maybank 2 Mastercard® Gold Card
- Maybank Mastercard® Gold Card
- Maybank Islamic Mastercard® Ikhwan Gold Card
- Maybank Mastercard® Platinum Debit Card
- Maybank Mastercard® Classic Card
As the title suggests, Maybank is the first one to officially support their range of issued chipped plastic cards.
Keep in mind that the list is for this particular first launch and some of you smart brains realize there are no American Express (AMEX) cards. A piece of sad news, unfortunately. But Maybank did mention that support is inevitable in the future. The same thing can be said for cards coming out of Maybank Islamic.
Feeling feisty? You can just go punch in your details and see whether your card gets added successfully.
Have fun starting today, fellow Apple fans.
[Updated on August 9, 2022, 7:45 PM]
According to Malaysia’s Apple Pay website, the official supported banks are not only just Maybank but rather, together with Ambank and Standard Chartered.
However, AMEX integration is still the same as spectulated – Coming Soon™.
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