Apple Pay setup screens found hidden in iOS 8.1 beta 2

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Photo: Apple
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Within hours of Apple seeding its second iOS 8.1 beta to developers, dev Hamza Sood has discovered several pertinent pieces of information related to Apple Pay — including the setup screen within the Passbook app, the setup screen in the iOS 8.1 setup, and the setup screen on the iPad.

Sood previously discovered references to Apple Pay in the first iOS 8.1 beta.

Although these are screens are not visible to most users currently, it does show that Apple is progressively working toward Apple Pay’s inclusion in iOS. Whether Cupertino makes the feature available to developers in future beta versions ahead of the public release isn’t known, but this does give a glimpse of what it is that users can expect Apple Pay to look like.

Apple Pay was announced on September 9, alongside the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and Apple Watch, marking Apple’s long-awaited entry into the mobile payments market.

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