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Old May 14, 2019, 10:53 pm
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RedLight2015
 
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Originally Posted by tmiw
How does it know when you're using it for transit vs. with a regular merchant? Was there some sort of update to the EMV standards that I missed?

BTW per Apple's support docs, Portland already supports this.
Transit card readers have a special flag that the phone would look for. Since it’s not a “full EMV chip” terminal.
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