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Apple Pay is being positioned for a more ambitious role in Apple’s ecosystem: not merely a fast way to tap an iPhone at a checkout terminal, but a richer digital wallet experience that blends card selection, rewards redemption, loyalty data, account management, and merchant interaction. A new...

American Express on June 30, 2026 enabled eligible U.S. Membership Rewards cardholders to redeem points directly inside Apple Pay checkouts for online and in-app purchases on iPhone and iPad. The move sounds like a small convenience feature, but it is really another step in turning the digital...