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> ”Is it not possible to top up a digital Oyster card on an iPhone or Apple Watch via an app or Apple Wallet?” It is, there’s even an auto top-up option that a
by Reason077 2y ago
> ”Is it not possible to top up a digital Oyster card on an iPhone or Apple Watch via an app or Apple Wallet?”
It is, there’s even an auto top-up option that adds credit automatically if your balance drops below a certain level.
But there’s no “digital” Oyster card, only physical ones. If you want to use a device to pay you have to use contactless.
And either way, it’s still kind of a pain to have to maintain a balance - especially if you’re a tourist or visitor and don’t know exactly how much credit you’re going to need.
I agree that being able to load a transit card into Apple Pay etc is also a good solution. The convenience of not having a physical card that can be easily lost or forgotten is probably the biggest benefit for me.
- lxgr 2y agoSorry, I always get Oyster and Octopus mixed up, and it happened again here :) Octopus (used in Hong Kong) is the one that supports virtual cards in Apple Wallet.