Apple Avoids EU Fines by Opening Up Contactless Payments to Rivals

Published on July 11, 2024

Apple has avoided facing large fines in a European Union antitrust probe after the company committed to making its contactless payment technology on iOS devices available to competing digital wallets. The European Commission opened an investigation into Apple’s “Tap and Go” service in 2020. The “Tap and Go” feature allows Apple device users to make contactless payments in stores using near-field-communication (NFC) technologies. The company made its Apple Pay service the sole mobile wallet which can access the NFC feature on iOS—only Apple Pay users could utilize Tap and Go on iOS. In its investigation, the European Commission concluded that “Apple abused its dominant position by refusing to supply the NFC input on iOS to competing mobile wallet developers while reserving such access only to Apple Pay,” the agency said in a July 11 press release....

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