I/O 2016: Android Pay coming to ATMs & mobile Chrome users

Widening the battleground with Apple Pay, Google on Wednesday announced that Android Pay will soon be usable at some ATMs, as well as by mobile Chrome users.

ATM support will initially be limited to Bank of America customers, though more partners may come onboard later, TechCrunch said. The feature will let people make a withdrawal from a machine using an Android phone instead of a debit card.

Apple Pay can already be used ATMs, but only in China, which may give Google a temporary advantage in its core American market. Apple has not announced any broader plans for ATM support, but could theoretically do so at WWDC 2016 in June.

Chrome will be getting Android Pay support via the cross-browser Payment Request API, which is currently being vetted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Once adopted the technology will let people use Android Pay on webpages, instead of just through apps and at retail. At the moment Booking.com and Shopify are testing the technology with users.

A March report suggested that Apple Pay is also coming to the Web. This might initially be limited to Safari on iPhones and iPads, but could come to Macs as well. Some form of launch is expected to happen before the holiday shopping season — like ATM support, there's a chance the feature could be revealed at WWDC.

13 Comments

wood1208 2932 comments · 10 Years

About 8 years ago

ApplePay, why not support ATMs in America ? Best way to penetrate large usage of credit-debit-card-less secured ATM transactions.

9secondkox2 3127 comments · 8 Years

Um...

isnt to the whole point of [insert organization here] Pay to NOT NEED the stinking ATM?

monstrosity 2227 comments · 17 Years

9secondkox2 said:

Um...

isnt to the whole point of [insert organization here] Pay to NOT NEED the stinking ATM?

I get ya point, but I would quite like it if I didn't have to touch those germ infested ATM machines. I quite like the idea.

rob53 3307 comments · 13 Years

9secondkox2 said:

Um...

isnt to the whole point of [insert organization here] Pay to NOT NEED the stinking ATM?

There's a thing called cash that I use a lot of times when I don't want to use a credit card. There's a lot of stores that still take cash and when they do, they don't get any information about me or my buying habits.

At an ATM, I'd like to use at least my Wells Fargo app, which uses TouchID, to access my account and withdraw cash. This doesn't use ApplePay but does use the many of the same features of ApplePay to initiate and control the withdrawing of money. For those general use ATMs, I could see my Wallet capability being used to sense when I'm close to a compatible ATM, trigger a compatible app that asks for a TouchID finger, then automatically goes into the app to initiate the cash withdrawal.

jony0 380 comments · 12 Years

rob53 said:
There's a lot of stores that still take cash and when they do, they don't get any information about me or my buying habits.

Nor do they get any information about you with Pay either, just a randomized token. Along with great security, that's also the beauty of it.