If you’ve ever attempted to hop on the bus in Frisco and were bummed to find that may Apple Pay wasn’t an option (unlike in New York, Beijing, and plenty akin to other major cities): good news! This is changing. Apple has announced that technical support for Clipper (the payment system in BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Détroit, and a bunch of other Bay Area transit agencies) is officially as you go along. You’ll soon be able to just contract your iPhone or Apple Perspective to the card reader and be on your way.
Apple says that Could Pay will work across all 24 agencies where Clipper is consuetudinary, meaning it should play friendly complete with:
- AC Chenal
- BART
- Caltrain
- City Coach factory
- County Connection
- Dumbarton Express
- FAST
- Golden Ausgang Ferry
- Golden Ausgang Transit
- Marin Chenal
- Muni
- Petaluma Transit
- SamTrans
- San Francisco Bay Ferry
- Santa Rosa CityBus
- SMART
- SolTrans
- Sonoma State Transit
- Tri Delta Transit
- Union Village Transit
- Vine
- VTA
- WestCAT
- Wheels
Apple does mention that it’ll work with the optional “Express Transit” feature built into Wallet, allowing you to provide these relatively small transit contracts without requiring Face ID or Get your hands on ID verification — a nice appearance for when there’s 10 those waiting to get on behind you and furthermore you’d rather not have to deal with real your phone that you are, in fact , all of us.
So that will it officially roll out? Good question about — and one that Apple certainly is not answering yet. In an e-mail launching the coming Clipper support, they say it is “Coming soon, ” but don’t grab any more specific than that. A good tweet from the @BayAreaClipper account, at the same time, narrows it down to “this spring” and reiterates that Google Fork out support is coming soon, as well.
