Apple Pockets replace makes pay later simpler

Purchase now, pay later companies have develop into increasingly popular lately, with firms like Affirm and Klarna providing plans straight by means of the Apple Wallet app through the checkout course of. Now, Apple is making them extra accessible and simpler to make use of.

Apple lately up to date its Pockets app to allow you to arrange and handle purchase now, pay later (BNPL) companies earlier than making a purchase order (by way of 9to5Mac). Beforehand, to make use of a service like Affirm for the primary time, you needed to full the whole checkout course of for no matter you are shopping for, choose the “Different Playing cards & Pay Later” possibility, after which undergo the setup and software course of for it.

With the brand new Apple Pockets replace, you’ll be able to arrange and handle pay later choices within the Apple Pockets app earlier than making a purchase order for the primary time, making the checkout course of sooner. The change was noticed by Aaron Perris on X and may be discovered within the plus menu while you go so as to add a card in Apple Pockets, by deciding on “Pay Later Choices.”

You must have the ability to entry the characteristic now

The characteristic arrives simply in time for Apple’s iPhone 17 occasion

Based on 9to5Mac, this characteristic is already accessible for Apple Pockets customers working iOS 18 and iOS 26. So, if you have not put in the iOS 26 beta and are ready for its official launch, you’ll be able to nonetheless use this characteristic with iOS 18 for now. Simply be certain that your Apple Pockets app is up-to-date.

If you faucet the brand new characteristic known as “Pay Later Choices” in Apple Pockets, it takes you to a menu the place you’ll be able to view the BNPL companies accessible to you, and you may choose one to arrange and handle earlier than making a purchase order, so it is able to go upfront.

It is fascinating that Apple rolled out this characteristic simply earlier than its extremely anticipated “Awe dropping” product occasion on September 9, the place the iPhone 17 sequence is anticipated to be unveiled. This is perhaps a means for Apple to assist put together folks for the brand new telephones to go up for pre-order quickly.

Both means, it is good to see a easy quality-of-life characteristic like this added to Apple Pockets. With iOS 26 coming quickly, much more options are on the horizon for Apple Pockets as nicely, akin to new options for boarding passes and the power to extra easily track orders.