It’s about accessibility. Not just an arrow. Accessibility is important.
Anyway, I don’t want this to be an argument. It is clear an arrow is easier to see and understand than a notch or the chip for certain people. You might not care that people have different needs to you, but for some, an arrow I’ll help. Therefore, this arrow is far from pointless.
Imagine discussing good card design on the card design thread. Heaven forfend.
8 days later and you’re getting angry and saying that people don’t care about accessibility because people dare suggest a painted arrow isn’t a big improvement.
You’re right. Lost my way somewhat 
Sometimes get a bit lost who I’m meant to be replying to 
Anyway, people will know themselves who it is referring to. It’s pretty clear to me who values accessbility and who doesn’t.
It’s on the bottom left in the picture, not the right.
This seems to be very similar to their old zero card, and the recent all in one credit card.
All in one has longer balance transfer and purchase offer, but lower cashback.
Did the maths on the Santander Edge credit vs Barclaycard Rewards purely on the cash back aspect.
Santander year 1 (incl fee) breaks even vs the Barclaycard Rewards card at £2400 annual spend (£12 cash back from both)
Santander year 2+ (incl fee) breaks even vs the Barclaycard Rewards card £7200 annual spend (£36 cash back from both)
Not factoring in that Santander charges interest daily from cash withdrawals + 3% fee on the initial withdrawal though!
Definitely appealing for the first year.
Looks like this prompted Santander to finally update their credit cards on Apple Pay (still no luck with debit)
Too big of a font size and weird placement of MC logo imo
The debit card has been updated on both Google and Samsung Wallet for me.
Same although I doubt anyone will care that the admin changed. I certainly don’t.
Even though I keep forgetting about Boosts, I’ve had some pretty good luck with it. Free coffee, sausage rolls, £50 Amazon voucher, free trials. Just need to remember it exists.
I think the font size works perfectly well. At first glance, the Mastercard logo is a bit odd there, but it doesn’t look bad imo. I think in general, this current physical portrait design would be quite difficult to adapt to landscape without part of it looking a bit strange.
Aren’t they supposed to give notice of these things? Unless perhaps they deem it as a positive or no difference change.
Regardless, hopefully this means we will see some more useful offers!
Just had my first experience with the Santander fraud team. The wait wasn’t too long (quicker than First Direct) and the staff, especially the second one, was really helpful and friendly. Also, get to see what the “Card Transaction Disputes” section of the app is like (shows the disputed transactions and what the status of the dispute is). Very happy with it all really (well, apart from the fact I have a transaction that wasn’t me).
The Santander Pilot app has been updated again.
I’ve just tried adding accounts from another bank (which is also available on their current app). The available banks are Bank of Scotland, Cater Allen, Halifax, Lloyds, Monzo, Nationwide, Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Revolut. The adding process worked without anything going wrong, however, I am currently unable to see transaction details from Nationwide, but my other account from Revolut is working perfectly. The added accounts are added under your Santander accounts in an “Other banks” section.
Overall, I do think the new app is turning into a really good one. Its layout works well and it also just looks nice. Hopefully a few more new features get added before it fully launches, but so far, really promising, even if the testing phase is taking ages. It also runs a lot faster and smoother than it did when it first came out. Not perfect, but still good.
I asked Santander and they said they worked with Alzheimer’s UK to help develop the cards (HSBC UK did the same). Different charities will offer different advice depending on what the charity does. Just because RNIB didn’t include arrows, doesn’t mean they won’t help.
