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iOS 8 How-to: Use Camera to enter in credit card info

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With iOS 7, Apple added a new feature in iBooks, iTunes and the App Store that allowed users to scan iTunes gift cards with the device’s camera rather than manually entering the string of characters on the back of the card. Now in iOS 8, you can use the device’s camera to scan and enter credit card information.

To add your credit card for purchases open up Settings and tap on Safari.

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Then tap on Passwords & AutoFill. Here you will notice that by default that Names and Passwords, and Credit Cards is turned on by default. To add a credit card, press Saved Credit Cards. When you press on Saved Credit Cards, it requires you to enter your devices’s password to continue.

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Once you enter in your device’s password you will be able to add a credit card by pressing on Add Credit Card. If you happen to see credit cards already listed here and are not sure why they are there, that indicates you were using iCloud Keychain which stores any credit card information you have entered in and syncs across your iOS devices and your Mac. Then you are able to scan the credit card by pressing on the words Use Camera up at the top in blue.

When doing this on the device, a white box appears with Position Card in this Frame.

 

When doing this on the iPhone, the phone vibrates when it detects the card numbers. Sometimes it will also pick up the expiration date, but most of the time I had to enter it in manually along with my name on the card. For security purposes it will not store the CVC number. Testing this with vertical credit cards, it was not able to detect the credit card numbers.

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Now when you go shopping online using Safari, you are able to have your credit card information be filled out very quickly for you. When you tap in the box that says Name on card or Card Number, you get options to either enter in the credit card information or AutoFill Credit Card.

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Tapping on AutoFill Credit Card shows you the credit cards you have stored locally on the device or in iCloud Keychain, or it allows you to scan in a new credit card right then.

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Then when you go shopping online it will fill in your name, credit card number and expiration date. You do have to manually enter in the security code on the back of the credit card.

 

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Comments

  1. philboogie - 9 years ago

    Can’t believe you guys (and gals) actually have Google as your default search engine

    • kplayaja - 9 years ago

      Who doesn’t?

      • Mr. Grey (@mister_grey) - 9 years ago

        me

      • degraevesofie - 9 years ago

        Many (including our family) try to stay away as much as possible from Google services, given their rather cavalier attitude towards privacy rights. I currently use Bing as my default search engine (I tried Duck Duck Go for a while on MacOS, but had to redo too many searches on other engines).

      • standardpull - 9 years ago

        DuckDuckGo all the way! DDG provides the same class of search functionality as Google, but without giving a Google the unfettered ability to assemble a dossier about me based on my searches and browsing behaviors.

        Those that use a combination of Google’s search, maps, DNS, mail, docs, apps, and etc are basically handing their life keys to one single entity that has tracking beacons on the vast large majority of web sites and apps. With that class of data it is a trivial exercise to misuse it. Do you trust Google and everyone that works there and their partners? I do not.

        It is best not to hand over the keys to your life to any 3rd party. Even if they try to do the right thing, they can screw up (as did Target, Chase, TJX, etc).

      • greyjensen - 9 years ago

        Regarding DuckDuckGo vs Google for search: I too became frustrated with DDG, and found this elegant solution which supports anonymous Google searches (or Bing or whatever) — a browser extension from the Disconnect people https://disconnect.me/search#…which also prevents your ISP from logging your searches.

        OK, now let the “why would you trust the Disconnect people” trolling begin.

    • Old habits are hard to kick.

  2. Usman Ul Haque - 9 years ago

    Is there any way on iPhone to pick which login info to auto-fill? I have multiple logins for certain websites and am unable to choose which login iOS auto-fills

    • greyjensen - 9 years ago

      1Password for iOS (and OSX) is what you want — and in iOS8 / iPhone 5s or later you can authenticate 1Password logins (and CC information) with TouchID. 1P for iOS is currently free; the OSX and Windows applications are very reasonably priced — actually a steal for what they do. 1P is indispensable in my life. agilebits.com

  3. Mr. Grey (@mister_grey) - 9 years ago

    Sarah, I love your “how-to’s” which are usually crystal clear, but this one has an obvious piece of information missing. Given the imminent rollout of Pay, shouldn’t you include information on whether this ties in with it?

    For instance, when Pay comes out, I intend to use it, but I never use Auto-Fill for anything as it’s (IMO of course) insecure by design. If I use this Auto-fill technique to enter the credit cards, is that the same thing as entering the credit cards in the Pay interface when it shows up? Or is this something separate?

    If it’s something separate, it’s really a waste of time for those of us that don’t use Auto-fill, if it’s tied in, then this is a nice “get ready for Pay!” suggestion. I’m not sure which of the two it is.

    • Max Mars (@devianter) - 9 years ago

      Every time I see your comment i already know you are bitching about something. EVERY TIME. Bitching and whining and complaining. Get a fucking life, will ya? Apple pay is Apple pay, it’s a new feature and doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with THIS feature, which was there for years. Try googling something once in your life and find an answer by yourself instead of breaking the balls to everybody around you.

      • standardpull - 9 years ago

        Whoa, Max, please chill out a little. Although I agree that it was a question easily answered with a little tiny bit of brain power, not everyone in this world is an expert or confident in their own reasoning skills. In fact, I’d say that there are a lot of folks out there that are, well, not very smart.

        So although I fully appreciate your frustrations, I personally believe that a better approach would be to leave it alone and walk away with an appreciation that not everyone out there is smart.

  4. Daan Vreeswijk (@dtjv) - 9 years ago

    That last screenshots indicates that debit cards are also accepted. That is actually good news for many of us Europeans, who use debit much more than credit. Awesome!

  5. Computer_Whiz123 - 9 years ago

    Tia is cool, but could be use adversely by hackers…

  6. smillr58 - 9 years ago

    No sh*t, duck duck go!!

  7. bourne2015 - 9 years ago

    Please folks …. try NOT to be so naive thinking google is the ONLY damn search engine!!!!

  8. Dan (@danmdan) - 9 years ago

    As my name I can enter D Smith, or H Smith, but am not allowed to enter D H Smith – the name box expects only one initial and then a name. So I can not enter my name as it appears on my credit card.

  9. nafeesdba - 9 years ago

    So I guess you need to be using the system keyboard to use this feature? Won’t work with 3rd party keyboards?