Over the weekend, Apple took the unusual stepof rushing iOS 11.2 out the door ahead of schedule, so that users could avoid a bug that was causing some iPhones to crash on December 2nd.
Because the software update was rolled out ahead of schedule, the biggest new feature in it — Apple Pay Cash, the new peer-to-peer payments system — wasn’t enabled yet. But someone clearly rolled into the office and flicked a switch this morning, because Apple Pay Cash appears to be live for anyone running iOS 11.2 in the US right now.
The interface for Apple Pay Cash is in iMessage, just under the keyboard where other iMessage apps live. Apple’s hoping that the convenience factor will help its payment system overtake Venmo: anyone who has already set up Apple Pay for contactless payments will have virtually nothing to do in order to send a friend money through Apple Pay Cash.
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