Take a bank card with an NFC chip and put it inside your phone case.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
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Lol I paid extra $60 for NFC. Only if I knew this trick I could have used that money to buy inflatable sex doll.
See? No need to thank me. ;)
Tap to pay is not supported on GOS due to a google certification issue, i.e. GOS can't in good faith spoof the google signing keys like some other ROMs do (because google could break it at any time)
NFC payments ARE supported by Graphene. Gpay is not, due to google not supporting it. If your bank app, has the option and no reliance to gpay you will be able to pay with your phone.
IIRC the project has a page with the ones that do work.
Why cant they get officially approved by google? Is it purely monopoly maintenance? Surly the eu will mark them as gatekeepers?
Afaik some banks offer tap to pay in their own banking apps. My banking app used to do that until they fully switched to Google Pay and stopped letting the users use the builtin tap to pay functionality.
Other than Google pay or getting a card from a bank that offers that in their mobile app there isn't a way afaik
Other than Google pay...
Google Pay's Tap to Pay does not work on GrapheneOS.
GPay doesn't work on GrapheneOS IIRC.
Apparently you can make it work, not that I would
looks like you'll have to get some exercise and lift your wrist to the chip reader 😭 sigh..
In terms of privacy, using a normal credit/debit card provides very little protection.
When paying in-person, I would rather exclusively use cash.
From my understanding, the OP wanted to use a system that does not provide physical cards though.
cash
Yes, that would be the best. My point is that there might be still some middle ground that OP wants to use for some reason.
If you want to use Privacy, you can reprogram a magnetic stripe to work with privacy cards, you'll just need a new card for each merchant.