• Blackmist
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, if you’ve got no internet then you can’t do all the nice internet things.

    Pretty sure you’d need internet (wifi would do) to set up Apple/Google Pay on your phone, but I don’t think you need internet when out and about paying for things.

    Apple seem to have no problem with it.

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8204935

    Looks like the Google one needs to phone home every so often, but should work for “a limited number of transactions”. Whether that’s by value or by transaction count I don’t know. It certainly seems to be instant whenever I use it, which makes me think it doesn’t rely on internet access.

    https://support.google.com/wallet/thread/177978646/do-you-need-data-to-use-google-pay?hl=en

    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You’re correct. I’ve made payments with my phone and watch lots of times without any WiFi or data connection.

      Only the payment terminal needs to be connected.