You might take noticed that a new app has been pushed to your device. That app, which takes the place of Google Wallet, is the long-anticipated Android Pay. If you lot don't happen to find it on your device (yous may non if you never installed Google Wallet), you can easily become it from the Google Play Store.

This new payment app requires Android 4.iv or college, works with NFC (so you'll need an NFC-equipped device), and makes information technology very piece of cake to apply your credit or debit card.

Here are the steps to install Android Pay:

  1. Open the Google Play Store on your device
  2. Search for Android Pay
  3. Locate and tap the entry by Google
  4. Tap Install
  5. Read the permissions listing
  6. If the permissions list is acceptable, tap Have
  7. Allow the installation to complete

If the app is already on your device, you simply demand to locate and tap the launcher in the app drawer. When it runs for the first time, it will immediately prompt you to enter a carte du jour (Figure A).

Figure A

Setting upwards Android Pay on a Verizon-branded Nexus 6.

If y'all've already entered a card in Google Wallet, Android Pay will automatically have admission to that information. When you tap the plus sign [+] to add a carte, the card from Google Wallet will announced (Figure B). If that'southward the card you lot desire to associate with Android Pay, but tap it, and you're prepare to get.

Figure B


Migrating a card from Google Wallet to Android Pay.

Tap that entry, confirm the details of the carte du jour (you must have the security lawmaking from the dorsum of the bill of fare), and and then tap proceed. Depending on your menu, you may accept to accept an EULA before the setup is complete. Android Pay volition besides crave yous to have a lock screen setup, otherwise you lot won't be able to finalize the addition of the card.

To pay with Android Pay, simply unlock your device and hold your phone upward to the POS terminal. That'southward information technology!

If you didn't take a card set in Google Wallet, y'all'll have to tap the plus sign [+] from the principal screen and so either scan the bill of fare with the device camera or enter the details manually.

One of the cool features of Android Pay is the machine redemption of loyalty cards, which works when you employ Android Pay in a location that besides has an associated loyalty carte. This means yous won't have to also browse your loyalty card… Android Pay will automatically apply that to the purchase.

Tell usa about your feel using Android Pay. If you oasis't or don't plan to, what's keeping you lot from using it? Get out your comments in the discussion thread below.