Apple Pay will work outside of Safari with iOS16

It is today one of the safest payment solutions available (at least according to Apple). The Apple brand has been developing Apple Pay for several years and while the system is taking on an unprecedented scale in the year 2022, it could leave its nest.

He who cut his teeth in Safari could soon be used by other services and applications.A new version of the iOS 16 betasuggests that Apple's payment system could see the light of day in new forms. Without revolutionizing it, the payment service could be accessible in the coming months from other browsers, such as Chrome or Firefox.

Apple Pay opens up to competition

According to Steve Moser, a contributor to the MacRumors news site, sites like Apple.com that support payment with Apple Pay still offer this functionality, even once outside of Apple's native browser. For the moment this minor modificationd’Apple Payonly arrived on iPhone and iPad.

Indeed, updating the latest beta of macOS Ventura does not provide the same result. For the moment users have noticed changes for Apple Pay on the phone and tablet versions. Both devices support Apple's payment service with both Chrome and Firefox.

If this announcement necessarily pleases a large number of users, many must now hope that such a change will also, and above all, be made on Macs which are the devices most likely to use another internet browser.

Safari: more in danger than ever

Today it is estimated that a little more1 billion people use Safari. The browser designed by Apple owes its popularity essentially to the iPhone, a field that it controls from start to finish and where competition is quite weak, although existing.

As a reminder, Apple is today the target of several investigations concerning the promotion of its own products. One of the current procedures focuses precisely onapplications installed by default by Apple, like Safari. If Apple were to lose this new legal battle, the Cupertino company would have to give its users the choice between similar solutions like Safari, Edge, Chrome or Firefox.