UPDATE: No WWDC20 mention of AliPay for Apple Pay Wallet but there are code references in iOS 14 beta 2, also iOS 14 PassKit: WWDC20 details and developments here
The recent iOS 14 feature leak report from 9to5 Mac closed with an interesting line, “Another change includes AliPay support for Apple Pay with iOS 14.” A reader steered me to a set of images posted to the Octopus on Apple Pay thread on the LIHKG site.
The images suggest a few possible scenarios for iOS 14 Wallet:
- QR Code payment system players have a PassKit API method to add a ‘QR Card’ to Wallet.
- Wallet QR Cards set as the main card directly invoked with a side button double-click for Face/Touch ID authentication and dynamic QR Code payment generation without an app.
- Direct static QR Code reads with Apple Pay payment.
It makes sense that Apple wants to encourage major Chinese QR Code players to join the ranks of top tier Wallet cards like any Apple Pay credit card and not be stuck in an app. Direct Apple Pay Wallet QR integration makes things more convenient for iPhone QR Code users. The Wallet card metaphor is rather strange for QR Codes but that is what the Wallet UI is built around and it differentiates cards from passes. Apple already refers to Apple Pay credit/debit cards as ‘Payment Cards’, QR Code cards will be just another Apple Pay Payment card.
Questions: Will it work offline like Wallet NFC cards? Will Wallet QR Code Payment cards require QR Code PassKit Certificates with NDA similar to NFC PassKit Certificates and will they be renamed Secure Element PassKit Certificates? Is this what the new “PKSecureElementPass” PassKit framework addition in iOS 13.4 is for (in addition to CarKey)?
We’ll find out details online this summer at WWDC20.
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