Apple Pay transit cards (Suica, PASMO, and ICOCA) and e-Money cards (WAON and nanaco) are different from Apple Pay payment cards in that a transit or e-Money card prepaid stored […]
Apple
Multi-device provisioning iOS 17 Wallet kills off Suica 2-step for good
The Apple support pages for adding transit cards and e-Money cards has a completely new updated section for transferring cards to a new iPhone: iOS 17 Setup Assistant automatically transfers […]
Mobile Payments
NFC VAS done right: Pi-xcels NFC background tag read powered e-receipts
In the traditional Buddhist cosmos there are sub-human hells of suffering: fighting demons, hungry ghosts, terrifying animals and so on. In the human realm we create our own hells. QR […]
Apple
iOS 17 features not coming to Japan*
With every iOS release there are features that everybody gets, some features that other regions get later on, and some features that never make it out of the English language […]
Mobile Payments
Forget the Suica vs EMV open loop soap opera, it’s all about loyalty program banks now
Quick, what’s the number one complaint foreigners had when they couldn’t use their foreign issue VISA cards for Apple Pay Suica recharge? Was it inconvenience? No, it was points. Specifically […]
Help Desk
Recover Suica and other transit or e-Money cards from a lost or wiped iPhone
The first thing to do if you have lost your iPhone is put the device in Lost Mode from another device using the same Apple ID or iCloud.com. Lost Mode […]