Where has this actually been announced. I can only see two articles about this and nothing from Apple.
When out shopping about to buy something, I donāt check my banking app before using Samsaung Wallet. Having the info directly on the app which you use to pay helps you have a better understanding of your fiannces and if you should be buying it etc.
I personally only buy stuff I know I can definitely afford, but for some, that extra bit of information in a clear place will help with budgeting etc.
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I didnāt until recently realise that you could see a transaction history there. I only ever use the wallet when I double tap to at. Maybe Iām an anomaly.
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It is rather poor. No linked source from Apple or otherwise announcing the feature. So Iād take the entire article with a pinch of salt.
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Wait you can what now? I didnāt know this either. I suppose itās not a feature I want to the extent I wonāt even bother to go looking for where this is. But you are definitely not the only one.
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Wallet (via the app, not double tap), tap the card.
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This is the same as Google wallet just to say. You see the transactions for the card on the device only.
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And the use of the dollar sign instead of the pound sign.
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Yeah that was in the list of known issues @N26throwaway shared I think
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I expected to see the balance when going to pay for something, which is where my excitement was aimed.
Disappointed it doesnāt, but a good step forward.
Flex shows balance used minus interest on top, which is fine as I know what my actual limit is, but could be more transparent.
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Does it work with Joint accounts?
And Iām not Apple. Dang. Weāll never know until someone with a JA and iPhone running the latest iOS shows us the light
Come on ElGoog - 25 years later and still playing catchup/hatchet
Thanks for the invite. I both appreciate and fear the ever-growing pressure to jump to iOS
Always loved the hardware. Always loathed the software.
I had an iPhone 3G in 2009. Queued up at a nearby O2 store at silly oāclock to get it. Was well proud when I got the last one from the store. Then had to use it. For 10 months. Jeez, how behind. It didnāt even support SMS until it was upgraded after 6 months. My previous Nokia N95 was more advanced. So I fell down the painful Jailbreaking rabbit hole. Until:
The T-Mobile G1 launched - I jumped. The G1 was āOKā and showed potential, but when the Nexus One launched - oh boyā¦ I was sold. Nexus & Pixel ever since.
Nice trip down Memory Lane there, but Iām still an Android bloke 13 years later. Kids have iPhones and I use various Macās at work - so Iām not totally alienated from Apple (although my daily driver is the still-outstanding Lenovo X1 Carbon Nano laptop running Win11 Pro)
Iām just not, personally, that keen on the 
software or closed ecosystem. But I get why millions love it for the same reasons. And I do still use an aging Pixel 5ā¦ So for my Next:- Pixel Fold or Pixel 8 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max 
Footnote: Iād still use my rock-solid rooted Nexus 6 
to teardown - even if I jumped over the fence 
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ITYM MMS, not SMS. The very first iPhone supported SMS from the start, but MMS only came with iOS 3.0 in 2009.
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Was it not carrier-related in the UK? - specifically, O2 (launch carrier) didnāt have SMS or Visual Voicemail until later in 2009, with MMS following at the end of 2009
Or it seemed like that for me - I remember thinking āWhy is only email supported?, what a backward stepā
Regardless, it was enough for me to ditch it. And quite sad. The reason I got into iPhone in the first place was developing HTML iPhone format webpages for our US customers to access in 2007 - wow!
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The O2 tariff page from 2007 mentions SMS and visual voicemail, so presumably was available from launch. It would be kinda nuts for a phone to not be able to do SMS too, I feel like weād hear that a lot more than āthe original iPhone couldnāt even do 3G!!ā
As an aside, itās quite funny theyāre bundling public Wi-Fi to claim it had unlimited data
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No - the original iPhone (on O2) definitely had SMS otherwise I wouldnāt have got it! I was burning through around 500 texts a month at that time and went from a Windows CE device to the OG iPhone. Hereās a screenshot of the activation process (that you had to do in iTunes):
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My obviously failed memory has been exposed here.
However, after a very successful thread derailing, Iāll shut up.
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Oops - for some reason I thought we were in the iPhone Nostalgia thread!
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