Q: When did McDonald's stop taking Apple Pay at their drive thru?

I like to use Apple Pay at McDonald's, Subway, and other places but recently when I went to McDonald's drive-through they wanted to use an optical scanner to scan the NFC chip in my Apple Watch.

Am I the only person having this problem? You can't scan a radio frequency chip using an optical scanner!

IT'S NOT A BARCODE! IT'S NOT A QR CODE! IT'S A RADIOFREQUENCY!

Apple Watch, iOS 8.4.1

Posted on Sep 6, 2015 7:49 PM

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by Jonathan UK,

Jonathan UK Sep 7, 2015 1:14 AM in response to watrfrnt
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Sep 7, 2015 1:14 AM in response to watrfrnt

If you try to use Apple Pay and experience a problem with staff knowledge, report it to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-pay.html

The feedback form enables you to report problems with specific merchants, locations and transactions, so is helpful in enabling Apple to investigate and address any issues raised.
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watrfrnt Dec 23, 2015 12:45 PM in response to Jonathan UK
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Dec 23, 2015 12:45 PM in response to Jonathan UK

I have a login for several months and now that I have I see that you replied soon after I posted my comment, thanks for your reply!

I will bookmark that feedback form and definitely be sending some "feedback."
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Jonathan UK Dec 23, 2015 12:49 PM in response to watrfrnt
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Dec 23, 2015 12:49 PM in response to watrfrnt

You are most welcome!
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watrfrnt Dec 23, 2015 1:38 PM in response to watrfrnt
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Dec 23, 2015 1:38 PM in response to watrfrnt

That should've read I haven't logged in (thank you Siri)…
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by richfromskillman,

richfromskillman Dec 24, 2015 4:14 PM in response to watrfrnt
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Dec 24, 2015 4:14 PM in response to watrfrnt

I often find that they want to treat it as a scanner. I have had to educate multiple drive thru attendants that if they take my phone (after AP is enabled) that they can complete the transaction.
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