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Apple will

transform the

iPhone

into a point of sale

(POS) terminal

this year, although for now only in the

US.

A future software update will allow small businesses or street vendors to use the phone's

NFC

reader to accept payments from a

contactless

card or from another phone.

The function, which will be known as

Tap to Pay,

will not depend on Apple's own app or the

Apple Pay service,

although it is compatible with this payment platform and other virtual wallets.

It is a set of

APIs

(anchors that developers can use to access functions within the operating system) that third-party companies can use in their applications.

The first company to use this feature will be

Stripe,

a popular payment processing platform.

Thanks to Stripe, the service will be integrated into the Shopify app

, which is used by many small businesses and online companies

in the US to manage their business.

Apple ensures that later other companies and payment gateways may also join the service.

Since these apps require registration and proof that the company is legitimate, the

risk

that a phone can be used fraudulently to accept unwanted payments

is low,

as is the case with conventional POS terminals.

Apple also points out that the other great advantage of the service will be privacy.

"All transactions made with Tap to Pay are encrypted and processed using the secure enclave of the phone's processor, and as with Apple Pay,

Apple does not know what is being purchased or who is buying it," they

explain from the company.

Tap to Pay will initially be available only on the iPhone, which limits the type of scenarios in which it can work as an alternative to a conventional POS.

Still, Apple plans to roll out the feature to all of its stores this year.

The service will require an iPhone XS, released in 2018, or a later model to work,

as they are the only devices that have a built-in NFC reader.

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