In Spain we have been complaining about the "exclusivity" that Banco Santander has maintained with Apple Pay for almost a year. All this despite the fact that there are other banks as much or more popular, which has caused enormous discomfort among iOS users in Spain due to the very slow development and expansion that Apple Pay has been having, however today we have good news.
Whether you are a CaixaBank or Imaginbank (CaixaBank digital subsidiary) customer, you can add your credit card to your Apple Pay Wallet right now. It seems that Apple is finally trying to treat the user in Spain in the same way that it treats others.
If you want to add your CaixaBank or Imaginbank card to Wallet, just click on the bottom corner right, where it allows you to add new Passbooks for example, and you can choose to read your card through the iPhone camera or enter the data manually. In the same way, the CCV will have to be entered completely manually as a security measure. Then it will give you two ways of accepting the use of Apple Pay: through text message (SMS) or through the verification that allows you to enable the various applications.
Be that as it may, Apple has finally chosen to allow Apple Pay to follow the normal course of development, so much so that they will finally choose to use it in a bank that is coincidentally the one with the most ATMs available throughout Spain and that also allows withdrawal of money from your ATMs via NFC. This is how Apple Pay approaches CaixaBank and Imaginbank, whatever card you have available with these two entities, Don't waste time anymore, add it to Apple Pay and discover the new era of contactless payments.
If you are on ios 10 and you want to insert the card, it tells you to update or nanai…. if or if they want to put us ios 11.
La Caixa's Gas Natural Fenosa visa does not seem to be either, a shame.
Ikea's Caixabank either