Android customers can now faucet to pay for transit rides within the Bay Place

San Francisco Bay Place residents and guests can now expend Android units to pay for rides on 24 public transit systems at some level of the distance. Apple Wallet has supported the Clipper card on iPhone and Apple Peek since final month.

Starting nowadays, it is doubtless you’ll be ready to lift a Clipper card in your Android machine or add your existing one. You might maybe maybe maybe possibly also then faucet to pay for rides on networks in conjunction with BART, Muni light rail and buses, Caltrain, VTA and the ferry — all with out having to dig around your pockets or rating for a Clipper card. 

Or not it is worth noting that within the occasion you digitize your Clipper card, you are going to no longer be ready to expend the physical version. That might maybe set up you in a bind if your battery runs out fully. You might maybe maybe maybe possibly also additionally entirely dangle your card on one machine at a time. Bikesharing and a few passes (in conjunction with San Francisco Teach College’s Gator Fling) will not be supported.

Whenever you dangle a machine running Android 5.0 or later and it is outfitted with NFC, you wants with a just to add a Clipper card to Google Pay. Nonetheless, Motorola handsets will not be supported, as The Verge notes. Whenever you are an Android user, you are going to must get dangle of Google Pay your default pockets app to rating this to work.

Google plans to allow faucet-to-pay relief for transit networks in Chicago and Washington DC soon. You are going to also be ready to pay for transit and parking by technique of Google Maps in hundreds of cities.