According to recent reports of iOS 8.1, it seems that the update has a hidden Apple Pay settings which seems to suggest and confirm Apple’s earlier promise of enabling Apple Pay in the near future. It also seemed to suggested that Apple Pay could be arriving on the iPads. However according to new reports, it seems that Siri will be involved in Apple Pay as well.
As it stands if you were to ask Siri to show you a credit card, it will bring up Apple’s Passbook app, which unfortunately at the moment does not allow users to add credit cards to the list. However with iOS 8.1, it has been reported that users will be able to use Siri to pull up credit cards that they might have on file.
This will come in handy if the user has more than one credit card stored or if their hands are busy. Apple has confirmed that Passbook will be the app that they will use to manage Apple Pay cards, but we guess it looks like Siri can also be used to access the cards you have saved.
There are also reports that Apple is currently developing iOS 8.2 and 8.3 alongside iOS 8.1. This seems to corroborate earlier reports that suggested that Apple had prioritized the development of OS X 10.10 Yosemite and that iOS 8’s features would be introduced over the course of several updates, but hey, better late than never, right?