Apple Pay Could Arrive For iPhone Customers This Saturday, 10/18

If you’re planning to ditch your wallet when Apple Pay goes live, you may not have to wait much longer. Walgreens, which is one of the companies that will support Apple Pay, seems to have sent an email to its employees with a date for Apple Pay’s release. If the email is legit, Apple Pay will be going live this Saturday, October 18. Some companies that are expected to support the mobile payment service are already promoting Apple Pay with “Coming Soon” banners.

Apple Pay is nearly here. Websites are touting the mobile payment service and Walgreens may have revealed the launch date in an internal memo.

Apple doesn’t speak to rumors, but if it wants to shine a light on Apple Pay’s release date, it will have a chance to on Thursday, October 16. The company is holding a “special event” that is widely expected to introduce new Apple iPads. Given that the iPhone 6 models and the Apple Watch were launched at an event earlier this month, it makes sense that iPads would get some attention now. Hopefully, Apple Pay will get some love then, but if not, it looks like we’ll all be getting plenty of details very soon.
Joshua Gulick

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine.  A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.