Apple’s contactlesss system that allows payment with an iPhone or Apple Watch to be available in the UK from next month

Apple Pay will come to the UK in July, Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday.

It will be available at more than 250,000 locations - more than the number of merchants it had in the US for last year’s launch.

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