Apple Pay allows Apple iPhone 6, 6s, 6, 7, 8, 6 Plus, 6s Plus, 7 Plus, 8 Plus, SE, X, XS, XS Max, XR, and Apple Watches to pay for good and services with a built in NFC chip. While not yet ubiquitous, Apple Pay is getting there. In the meantime, here is a list of the retail stores, apps (both retail and transit), colleges and universities, and nonprofits currently accepting Apple Pay:

You can use Apple Pay to pay for goods at the following stores with millions more:

• ACE
• Albertsons
• Apple
• Baskin Robbins
• Best Buy
• Chick-fil-A
• Costco
• Crate & Barrel
• Disney Store
• Duane Reade
• Dunkin Donuts
• Foot Locker
• GAP
• Crew
• Jersey Mike’s
• jetBlue
• Levi’s
• Macy’s McDonald’s
• Nike
• Office Depot/OfficeMax
• Panera
• Petsmart
• Pizza Hut
• Safeway
• Sephora
• 7 Eleven
• Staples
• Starbucks
• Subway
• Target
• Trader Joe’s
• Walgreens
• Walt Disney World
• White Castle
• Whole Foods

These apps and websites accept Apple Pay, along with many more:

• Airbnb
• B&H – photo, video, pro audio
• Chipotle
• Dunkin Donuts
• Etsy
• Fandango
• Groupon
• Grubhub
• Hotel Tonight
• Hotwire
• Instacart
• Jet
• Lululemon
• Lyft
• MLB
• Panera
• Seamless
• Sephora
• Staples
• Starbucks
• StubHub
• Target
• Ticketmaster
• Wish

Use Apple Pay when using these transit apps:

• Caltrain San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley
• *CTA and Pace Chicago metropolitan area
• MBTA Boston metropolitan area
• Metrolink Los Angeles metropolitan area
• MTA Metro-North and Long Island railroads New York metropolitan area
• NJ TRANSIT New Jersey and New York metropolitan area
• RTC Las Vegas metropolitan area
• RTD Denver metropolitan area
• *TriMet, C-TRAN, and Portland Streetcar Portland and Vancouver metropolitan area
• Ventra (CTA, Pace, and Metra) Chicago metropolitan area

*Tap and pay via Apple Pay

The following colleges and universities accept Apple Pay:

• The University of Alabama
• Duke
• Oklahoma University
• Temple University
• *Johns Hopkins University
• *Santa Clara University

*Coming later this school year

Donate by way of Apple Pay to the following nonprofits, in addition to others:

• American Red Cross
• Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
• Chron’s & Colitis Foundation
• Global Giving
• RED
• Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Save the Children
• United Way
• WNET New York Public Media
• WWF

Naturally, these apps that come standard on an iPhone accept Apple Pay:

• Apple Music
• Apple News+
• App Store
• Books
• iCloud
• iTunes Store

If you’d like to learn more about how to use Apple and Google pay click the link here!