iOS 8.1 and Apple Pay in Romania

  The release of iOS 8.1 bring Apple Pay for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the owners of these terminals being able to make mobile payments starting today, but only in the USA, at least for now. To add a credit card to the Apple Pay system, a user will have to access the Settings Passbook & Apple Pay menu, press the Add Credit or Debit Card button and then enter the data of their own card, or scan it using the camera of their own terminal.

  iOS 8.1 Apple Pay it can recognize the data of a Romanian card, but unfortunately when you try to attach it to the system you will receive the error message shown in the image above. In practice, banks in Romania have not concluded agreements with Apple for the authorization of mobile payments through this new system, so you will not be able to attach any card for it in the near future, until Apple brings the system to Romania as well, that is, in a few decades .